nyai

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Javanese nyai (ꦚꦲꦶ).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɲai̯]
  • Hyphenation: nyai

Noun

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nyai (first-person possessive nyaiku, second-person possessive nyaimu, third-person possessive nyainya)

  1. respected older woman.
  2. (obsolete) mistress of a European or Chinese man.
    Hypernym: gundik

Hyponyms

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Descendants

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  • Min Nan: (ngá)[1]

References

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  1. ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges . In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208

Further reading

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