buntuan
Indonesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /bunˈtuan/ [bun̪ˈt̪u.an]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: bun‧tu‧an
Noun
buntuan (plural buntuan-buntuan)
- (literature) crux, crux interpretum (challenging or ambiguous passages in scripture)
Further reading
- “buntuan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016