The story
- Sanskrit · derived fromकच्छपी“lute”
- Sundanese · derived fromᮊᮎᮕᮤ“zither”
- Indonesian · borrowed fromkecapi
- English todaykecapi
From Indonesian kecapi, from Sundanese ᮊᮎᮕᮤ (kacapi, “zither”), probably from Sanskrit कच्छपी (kacchapī, “lute”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.