purasani

Old Javanese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

purasani

1. a kind of iron

Further reading

• "purasani" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Old Sundanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese purasani (“a kind of iron”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

purasani

1. a kind of iron, likely a magnet or lodestone
   • c. 1750, Carita Waruga Guru, folio 1:

     ...turun ka laṅṅit mutyira turun ka laṅṅit purasani turun ka laṅṅit intĕn...

     ...then he descended to the pearl firmament, then he descended to the magnet/lodestone firmament, then he descended to the diamond firmament...

Sundanese

Etymology

From Old Sundanese purasani.

Noun

purasani (Sundanese script ᮕᮥᮛᮞᮔᮤ)

1. magnet

Further reading

• "POERASANI", in Coolsma, S (1913), Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij