empunya

Catalan

Verb

empunya

  1. inflection of empunyar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Malay

Etymology

Affixation of empu +‎ nya. from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əmpuña, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əmpu. Compare Tagalog impó (“grandmother”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Baku, Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /əmˈpuɲa/ [əmˈpu.ɲa]
  • Hyphenation: em‧pu‧nya

Noun

empunya (Jawi spelling امڤوڽا, uncountable)

  1. owner, possessor, master, proprietor
    Synonyms: pemilik, (standardised modern form) pemunya
    Dialah empunya rumah itu. ― He is the owner of that house.
  2. creator, originator, author
    Synonyms: pencipta, pengarang
    Dia dianggap empunya idea itu. ― He is regarded as the originator of the idea.
  3. person, one (in certain fixed expressions)
    Empunya diri tiada di rumah. ― The person himself is not at home.

Derived terms

Compounds
  • empunya diri
Others

Descendants

  • > Indonesian: empunya (inherited)

References

  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*empu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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