universiti

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English university.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /junivərsiti/

Noun

universiti

1. university

Malay

Alternative forms

• universitas (Indonesia incl. Riau)
• يونيباسيتي (obsolete Jawi form)

Etymology

From English university, from Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "A number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”). Compare Tagalog unibersidad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [(j)u.ni.və(r).si.ti]
• Rhymes: -ti, -i
• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧ti

Noun

universiti (Jawi spelling اونيۏرسيتي, plural universiti-universiti, informal 1st possessive universitiku, 2nd possessive universitimu, 3rd possessive universitinya)

1. (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore) A university.

Further reading

• “universiti” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.