pungsi

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch punctie (“puncture”), from Latin pūnctiō.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpuŋsi/ [ˈpuŋ.si]
• Rhymes: -uŋsi
• Syllabification: pung‧si

Noun

pungsi (plural pungsi-pungsi)

1. (medicine) puncture

Derived terms

• pungsi lumbal

Further reading

• “pungsi”, 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