Etymology

kampung spirit

kam·pung spi·rit

Today it means: A sense of social cohesion in a community and a willingness of neighbours to co-operate with each other. Full definition →

Malay kampung
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Malay · borrowed fromkampung“village; community”
  2. English todaykampung spirit

From kampung + spirit. Kampung is borrowed from Malay kampung (“village; community”).

Words from the same roots

Malaykampung all →

kampungkampang

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.