Figurative Ship and Some Language Lesson

The prompt today is sail and considering that I don't have proper knowledge about ship and sailing, I will just write about figurative ship: household.

In Indonesian language there is term "bahtera rumah tangga". Bahtera means ship, rumah tangga means household. If you understand Indonesian language, you can read this article about the etymology of the phrase.

Usually people use the word "kapal" in Indonesian to talk about the watercraft. The word "bahtera" is rarely used in everyday conversation when you talk about water transportation. So why do we use the word "bahtera" when it comes to figurative ship called household?

The word "kapal" is derived from Tamil word "kappal". The word "bahtera" is derived from the word "bahitra" in old Javanese, which is a loanword from from Sanskirt word "vahitra". According to the article I link above, the word "bahtera" is used when talking about figurative ship because Sankirt is used as ritual language so it has more spiritual feeling.

So it is said that being a family and creating household is like being in the same ship. You have to work together so the ship can sail safely. I can't explain further about it because, like a fan whose ship isn't canon, my ship hasn't sailed yet.

Maybe I should enjoy the harbour while getting my ship ready. Then we'll sail (though I don't know yet whom this "we" refer to).

Trauma & Traum

Next Monday on April 27th, I'm going to start studying traumatology. It's not about mental trauma anyway. It's about physical injury.
The word trauma sounds similar to the word Traum in German. They have different meaning, though. Traum means dream.
Can dream cause trauma? Maybe.

Du weiβt, was wunderschön ist – oder?

Du weiβt, was wunderschön ist – oder?

Lese das erste Wort noch mal.

Want to know the translation? Look at this page. Once I sent the translation to my friend and she was happy.

When I read that page, I laughed reading this

Jemand folgt dir auf Twitter => Juhu, ein neuer Follower!

Jemand folgt dir im richtigen Leben = Oh mein Gott, ein Stalker!

Translation:

Someone follows you on Twitter => Yoohoo, a new follower!

Someone follows you in real life => Oh my God, a stalker!

Words

One of my questions in Liebster Award is about favourite word and the answers are various. There are onomatopoeia, inspiration, mamma, and popliteal. I asked that question because I'm interested in language and here are some of my favourite words from some languages

1. Jawa
Garwa
Garwa iku bojo. Ing kerata basa, garwa iku sigaraning nyawa.
Garwa means wife or husband in Javanese. In kerata basa (I will explain about it in the future, hopefully), garwa is sigaraning nyawa (literally means a split of soul).

2. Indonesia
Sepeda
Karena saya lama gak naik sepeda.
Sepeda means bicycle. Because I haven't rid bicycle for a long time.

3. English
Fantasy
When you're bored, try to add a little more fantasy to your life.

4. Русский
Корову

Моя мама и я смотрим “Маша и Медвед” Следы НевиданныхЗверей. Маша гоборит “Корову” но моя мама слышит “Kerupuk”.

Корову

My mom and I watch "Masha and the Bear" Track of Unknown Animal. Masha says "Корову" (pronounced karovu, it means cow) but my mom hears "Kerupuk".

Kerupuk

5. Deutch

Blume

Das Wort “Blume” klingt schön und ich möchte Blume kaufen.

The word "Blume" (it means flower) sounds nice and I want to buy flower.

6. Chinese

I haven't learned Chinese again for a long time so I forget many words. My favourite words are 癌 and 爱. Both words are pronounced "ai" but with different tones. 癌 means cancer while 爱 means love. It's interesting that with different tone, a nice word which means love can be cancer. Learn more about tone in Chinese language here.

7. Arabic

كيف

كيف is pronounced "kaifa" and it means "how". I just like the way it sounds.

8. Hebrew

בית

בית is pronounced "bayet" (or bayit?) and it means home. If you know Arabic you will notice that it sounds similar to the word "bait" in Arabic which also means home.

9. Latin and Greek

There are many medical terms derived from Latin or Greek. For example, in sternum (breastbone), there are manubrium sterni and processus xiphoideus. Manubrium means handle in Latin while xiphoid means sword-like in Greek.

Sternum

If you know any of those languages and notice that I make mistake, please let me know.

My Blog Usernames

In Blogger, my name appears as Aku Menulis and in WordPress, it's lincahceria5. None of those is my real name.

"Aku Menulis" means I write. I have a folder in my laptop named "I Write". It contains my writing, of course. For my username, I chose the Indonesian words.

lincahceria is a merge of two words: "lincah" and "ceria". Lincah means agile, ceria means cheerful. My cousins once named his football team "Lincah Ceria". It sounds cute and not-footbally (is there such word?). I chose it as a name because, as usual, I lacked of idea and it was the first thing came to my mind.