The story
- Malay · borrowed frombumiputera“son of the soil”
- Sanskrit · derived fromभूमि
- English todaybumiputra
From Sanskrit भूमि (bhūmi) + पुत्र (putra); via Malay bumiputera (“son of the soil”).
Words from the same roots
Sanskritभूमि all →
Bhoomibhumi
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.