Kebo Lajer - dapur meaning?

[A. G. Maisey]

Pak Ganja, the following is not being given in dispute with your interpretation of "kebo lajer", but merely to provide a different perspective.

Many years ago the meaning of "kebo lajer" was given to me by a very well respected East Javanese mystic, who was also a keris collector, as "leader of kerbau".

Some time later somebody else, but I forget who, gave me the meaning as " the support given by a kerbau".

In Old Javanese one of the meanings of "lajer" is "principal support". In light of this perhaps we can see the sense in this second interpretation, and of course, the first interpretation is also easily understood when we look at Modern Javanese.

Both these interpretations if considered against the background of the tuah attributed to this dhapur of being fortunate for those with farming associations, do seem to make some sense of the name.