sunat

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese sunat, from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, a recommended practice).

Pronunciation

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Noun

sunat (plural sunat-sunat)

  1. circumcision (excising foreskin from penis)
    Synonyms: khitan, sirkumsisi

Hyponyms

  • sunat jin
  • sunat laser
  • sunat massal
  • sunat perempuan
  • sunat stapler

Derived terms

Affixations
  • bersunat
  • menyunat
  • menyunati
  • menyunatkan
  • penyunat
  • penyunatan
  • sunatan

Descendants

  • Tetum: sunat

Noun

sunat (plural sunat-sunat)

  1. (nonstandard) alternative spelling of sunah (recommended practice)

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, a recommended practice).

Pronunciation

  • (Baku, schwa-variety) IPA(key): /ˈsunat/ [ˈsu.nat̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -unat, -nat, -at
  • Hyphenation: su‧nat

Noun

sunat (Jawi spelling سونت, plural sunat-sunat or sunat2)

  1. (Islam) circumcision (excising foreskin from penis)

Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of suna.

Noun

sunat n (uncountable)

  1. called

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative sunat sunatul
genitive-dative sunat sunatului
vocative sunatule

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سُنَّت (sunnat), from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna). Compare Maranao sonat (clean), Tausug sunnat (circumcise by lightly scraping the clitoris), and Malay sunat (circumcision). Doublet of sunna.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /suˈnat/ [sʊˈn̪at̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: su‧nat

Noun

sunát (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜈᜆ᜔) (obsolete)

  1. circumcision
    Synonym: tuli
  2. female circumcision; excision of a woman's clitoris as part of Brunei custom [16th–17th c.]

Derived terms

  • magsunat
  • masunat
  • pasunat
  • sumunat
  • sunatin

See also

Further reading

Tetum

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian sunat (circumcision).

Noun

sunat

  1. (surgery) circumcision
    Synonym: sirkunsizaun

Further reading

  • Catharina Williams-van Klinken (2023), GLOSARIU termu saude ho mediku (Tetun/Ingles) [Tetun/English glossary of health and medical terms] (in Tetum), Dili: Dili Institute of Technology