sunat

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsunat̪̚]
• Hyphenation: su‧nat

Etymology 1

From Javanese sunat.

Noun

sunat (plural sunat-sunat, first-person possessive sunatku, second-person possessive sunatmu, third-person possessive sunatnya)

1. circumcision (excising foreskin from penis)

   Synonyms: khitan, sirkumsisi

Affixed terms

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

 

Etymology 2

Noun

sunat (plural sunat-sunat, first-person possessive sunatku, second-person possessive sunatmu, third-person possessive sunatnya)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of sunah (“recommended practice”)

Further reading

• “sunat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “a recommended practice”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -at

Noun

sunat (Jawi spelling سونت, plural sunat-sunat, informal 1st possessive sunatku, 2nd possessive sunatmu, 3rd possessive sunatnya)

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

Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of suna.

Noun

sunat n (uncountable)

1. called

Declension

declension of sunat (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sunat	sunatul
genitive/dative	(unui) sunat	sunatului
vocative	sunatule

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• sonat — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “recommended practice”). In Classical Arabic, the ة character is not silent and read as /t/. 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/, [sʊˈnat]
• 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

• katan

 

Further reading

• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila, 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