"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, {{m|ms|nyonya}} 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 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4
  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

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. Etymology templates: {{m|ms|nyonya}} 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): Malay entries with incorrect language header, Malay terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Malay entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of Malay terms with redundant script codes: 80 20
  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

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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.