"Nyonya" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Nyonyas [plural]
Etymology: From Malay Nyonya or nyonya. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ms|Nyonya}} Malay Nyonya Head templates: {{en-noun}} Nyonya (plural Nyonyas)
  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia) A female Peranakan Tags: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
    Sense id: en-Nyonya-en-noun-UDaANjkh Categories (other): Indonesian English, Malaysian English, Singapore English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 1 34 21 14
  2. (formal, Indonesia) An honorific title used before the name of a married woman Tags: Indonesia, formal
    Sense id: en-Nyonya-en-noun-yK5WooO0 Categories (other): Indonesian English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Baba

Noun [Indonesian]

IPA: /ɲoɲa/
Head templates: {{head|id|noun}} Nyonya
  1. (formal) An honorific title used before the name of a married woman. Used in formal situation, example: ticket, invitation, etc. Tags: formal Synonyms: Ibu, Ny. Related terms: nona
    Sense id: en-Nyonya-id-noun-AcC35Taw Categories (other): Indonesian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 29 2 41 18 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 1 34 21 14

Noun [Malay]

IPA: /ɲoɲə/ [Johor-Selangor], /ɲoɲa/ [Riau-Lingga] Forms: ڽوڽا [Jawi], Nyonya-Nyonya [plural], Nyonyaku [first-person, informal, possessive], Nyonyamu [possessive, second-person], Nyonyanya [possessive, third-person]
Rhymes: -oɲə, -ɲə, -ə, -a Etymology: See nyonya. Head templates: {{ms-noun|j=ڽوڽا}} Nyonya (Jawi spelling ڽوڽا, plural Nyonya-Nyonya, informal 1st possessive Nyonyaku, 2nd possessive Nyonyamu, 3rd possessive Nyonyanya)
  1. A female Peranakan (mostly found in Malacca, who speak Baba Malay, and historically descend from colonial Straits-born Chinese) Categories (topical): Family, Male
    Sense id: en-Nyonya-ms-noun-ejakn7dh Disambiguation of Family: 50 50 Disambiguation of Male: 50 50 Categories (other): Pages with entries, Malay entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 1 34 21 14 Disambiguation of Malay entries with incorrect language header: 68 32
  2. A female descendant of Peranakans (Baba Nyonya) Categories (topical): Family, Male Related terms: baba, nona
    Sense id: en-Nyonya-ms-noun-zBichr0r Disambiguation of Family: 50 50 Disambiguation of Male: 50 50 Categories (other): Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 1 34 21 14

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "ipa": "/ɲoɲa/",
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.