sunat
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese sunat, from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “a recommended practice”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
sunat (plural sunat-sunat)
- 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)
- (nonstandard) alternative spelling of sunah (“recommended practice”)
Further reading
- “sunat”, 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
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)
- (Islam) circumcision (excising foreskin from penis)
Romanian
Etymology
Past participle of suna.
Noun
sunat n (uncountable)
Declension
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | sunat | sunatul |
| genitive-dative | sunat | sunatului |
| vocative | sunatule | |
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- sonat — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
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)
- circumcision
- Synonym: tuli
- 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
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 617: “Zircunçiſion) Sonat (pc) M. de mujer en la clica coſtũbre de Burnay, vſauan la eſtos naſoſonat ca?”
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013), Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 157
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2017), Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 543
Tetum
Etymology
Borrowed from Indonesian sunat (“circumcision”).
Noun
sunat
- (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