sukun

• sukkun, sukūn

Borrowed from Arabic سُكُون (sukūn).

• IPA^(key): /suˈkun/

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sukun (plural sukuns)

1. A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.

   Near-synonyms: virama, halant

• Nukus

súkun

1. water

• D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea, Oceanic Linguistics, volume 7, numéro 1 (Summer, 1968), pages 36-66, page 41

• IPA^(key): /su.kun/

sukun

1. breadfruit, fruit of the tropical tree Artocarpus altilis

Borrowed from English school.

sukun

1. school

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsukun/ [ˈsu.kʊn]
• Rhymes: -ukun
• Syllabification: su‧kun

Inherited from Malay sukun.

sukun (plural sukun-sukun)

1. breadfruit, fruit of the tropical tree Artocarpus

Borrowed from Javanese sukun.

sukun

1. to be toothless
2. to be seedless

Borrowed from Arabic سُكُون (sukūn).

sukun (plural sukun-sukun)

1. A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.

• “sukun”, 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

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• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /sukon/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /sukʊn/
• Rhymes: -ukon, -kon, -on

sukun (Jawi spelling سوکون, plural sukun-sukun or sukun²)

1. breadfruit, fruit of the tropical tree Artocarpus altilis

   Synonym: kulur

• "sukun" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

• IPA^(key): /su.ˈkun/, [su.ˈkun]

sukun

1. skirt