The story
- Malay · borrowed fromsumpah“to swear, to make a promise”
- English todaysumpah
Unadapted borrowing from Malay sumpah (“to swear, to make a promise”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sumpah
Today it means: To promise; to earnestly swear that something is true. Full definition →
Malay sumpah