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punya

Baba Malay

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Etymology

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Inherited from Malay punya. Semantic loan from Hokkien 的 (ê).

Particle

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punya

  1. possessive particle
    gua punya ruma. ― My house (literally, “I have house.”)

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Malay punya. First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. Possibly a back-formation from mempunyai.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpuɲa/ [ˈpu.ɲa]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: pu‧nya

Noun

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punya (first-person possessive punyaku, second-person possessive punyamu, third-person possessive punyanya)

  1. owner

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Verb

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punya

  1. to have
    Saya punya kamus baru.
    • I have a new dictionary.
  2. to own
    Buku itu kepunyaan saya.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of punya (meng-, transitive)
Root punya
Active Involuntary /
Perfective 		Passive Basic /
Imperative 		Jussive
Active mempunyai terpunyai dipunyai
Locative
Causative / Applicative1 mempunyakan terpunyakan dipunyakan
Causative
Locative
Causative / Applicative1
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
This word has an irregular derivation due to etymological reasons or speakers' habits.
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

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Malay

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Etymology

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Clipping of empunya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *empu-ni-a, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *empu.[1]

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (punyā) in the form [script needed] (punyāña).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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punya (Jawi spelling ڤوڽا)

  1. owner
    Synonyms: pemunya, pemilik, empunya, tuan, yang punya, tuan punya

Particle

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punya (Jawi spelling ڤوڽا)

  1. (informal) possessive particle
    Adam punya buku ― Adam's book

Verb

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punya (Jawi spelling ڤوڽا)

  1. to have
    Synonyms: punyai, ada
    Saya punya enam buku.
    I have six books.
  2. to own
    Synonym: punyai
    Saya punya dua buah rumah.
    I own two houses.
  3. (spoken) Emphasizes a word that is repeated
  4. owned by; under someone's ownership
    Synonyms: kepunyaan, hak, milik
    rumah punya aku ― house that is owned by me

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*empu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

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Old Khmer

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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punya

  1. Latin script form of បុន្យ, alternative spelling of បុណ្យ (puṇya, “merit”)
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