waas

Abdi mah mun ningali pasawahan téh sok waas.

Whenever I look at the rice fields, I'm always nostalgic.

feeling nostalgic; melancholic; wistful; saudade


lada

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lajaq.


sarung

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saruŋ (“sheath, sheath-like container; to sheathe a weapon”). Cognate with Javanese ꦱꦫꦸꦁ (sarung).

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sarong (garment made of batik or ikat cloth wrapped about the waist)


profesor

Learned borrowing from Latin professor (compare Malay profesor).


Alkitab

From Arabic الْكِتَاب (al-kitāb, “the book”).


puas

Ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas. Sense of 'satisfied in general' as a semantic loan from Indonesian puas

satisfied upon other's suffering or misfortune; to feel schadenfreude


puas

Puas tah katangkep! Bongan saha ngebut?

Thank goodness you got caught! Whose fault was it for speeding?

word to express anger or irritation; take that!


hiri

Inherited from Old Sundanese hiri, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qiʀih. Cognate with Indonesian iri.

Tong silih pahiri-hiri


awis

ᮃᮝᮤᮞ᮪ ᮃᮝᮤᮞ᮪#Sundanese


kujang

A sword-like weapon with the traditional Sundanese characteristic arts.


budak

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budak (Sundanese script ᮘᮥᮓᮊ᮪, plural barudak)

ᮘᮥᮓᮊ᮪ (Sundanese character)
barudak (plural)

From Old Sundanese budak, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗik, *ɗiik, *ɗiək (“slave”). Word and sense related to Malay budak.

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Kunaon éta budak teu indit ka sakola?


abah

→ Javanese: ꦲꦧꦃ (abah)

Perhaps from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.


kuyuk

bamboo shoots or young tip of coconut (humbut) which are soaked until soft


konéng

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)kunij, from *kunij (“yellow, turmeric”).


urang

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀaŋ (“outsider”).


ᮈᮔ᮪ᮒᮦᮂ

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ᮈᮔ᮪ᮒᮦᮂ • (entéh)


panday

From Old Sundanese panday, from Prakrit 𑀧𑀁𑀟𑀺𑀅 (paṃḍia), from Sanskrit पाण्ड्यः (pāṇḍyaḥ, “best of the learned”).


bobotoh

From Old Sundanese bobotoh (“to bet”), from Old Javanese bobotoh (“to bet”)

(soccer, sometimes capitalized) a supporter of Persib Bandung football club, a football club based in Bandung.


carakan

By surface analysis, clipping of Javanese hanacaraka + -an.

clipping

Javanese <i class="Latn mention" lang="jv">hanacaraka</i>

surf

the traditional arrangement of the letters of the Sundanese alphabet.


paraji

doula (a person, usually a woman, that assists in childbirth); midwife

circumciser (a person who performs circumcision)


gahrab

From Arabic كَهْرَب (kahrab, “amber”), from Persian کهربا (kahrobâ, “amber”), from Middle Persian khlpʾd (“amber”). Cognate with Indonesian and Malay kahrab


sinom

Line 1: 8 syllables, 'a' in the last syllable.

Line 2: 8 syllables, 'i' in the last syllable.

Line 3: 8 syllables, 'a' in the last syllable.

Line 4: 8 syllables, 'i' in the last syllable.

Line 5: 7 syllables, 'i' in the last syllable.

Line 7: 7 syllables, 'a' in the last syllable.

Line 8: 8 syllables, 'i' in the last syllable.

Line 9: 12 syllables, 'a' in the last syllable.

a form of pupuh/canto which consists of nine lines and has the following requirements for the total syllable and ending vowel:


Abiyasa

Ultimately from Sanskrit व्यास (vyāsa, “Vyasa”).

(Hinduism) Vyasa, name of a Hindu sage and author who authored Mahabharata.


deungeun

From Old Sundanese deungeun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dəŋan.

Deungeun sangu keur peuting naon waé?

side dish for rice (usually paired with sangu (“rice”))


angeun

Angeun kacang, angeun kacang, sapariuk kosong

Bean broth, bean broth, the whole pot is emptied


alpuket

Borrowed from Indonesian alpukat, from Spanish avocado via Arabic الْأَفُوكَاتَة (al-ʔafūkāta, “avocado”). Ultimately from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado fruit”)

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الْأَفُوكَاتَة

Barack Obama rék meuli alpuket lima ton ti kebon urang

"Barack Obama is going to buy five tons of avocado from my plantation"


kuéh

From Hokkien 粿 (kóe, “rice cake”). Cognate with Indonesian kue, Malay kuih.


Murjangkung

(historical) Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies


bésan

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baisan. Compare Malay besan, Tagalog baisan, Acehnese bisan.


lahang

A drink made of the unfermented sweet sap from the Arenga pinnata flower


hégar

happy; cheerful, particularly because of seeing such scenery


keueung

eerie or uneasy, especially one evoked by loneliness or abandonment


mitoha

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-tuqah (“old, of people”), from Proto-Austronesian *ma-tuqaS. Cognate with Baduy mitoha, Indonesian mertua, Malay mentua, Buginese matoa.


panglayar

From pang- + layar. Named after its sail-like shape akin to a proa, also the final /r/ voice at the end of layar.

ᮔ (na) + ◌ ᮁ (panglayar) → ᮔᮁ (nar)

(linguistics, in Sundanese script) A diacritic ⟨◌ ᮁ⟩ signifying the addition of the final /r/ sound at the end of a letter.


The visarga diacritic of the Sundanese script.


panyuku

From pang- + suku. Named after its placement at the bottom (or foot) of the letter.

ᮔ (na) + ◌ ᮥ (panyuku) → ᮔᮥ (nu)

A diacritical mark (rarangkén) ⟨◌ ᮥ⟩ signifying the vowel /u/ in the Sundanese script.


pamaéh

ᮔ (na) + ◌᮪ (∅) → ᮔ᮪ (n)

virama (a diacritic/ rarangkén ⟨◌᮪⟩ signifying the lack of a vowel)


The virama diacritic of the Sundanese script.


A diacritic signifying the addition of the final /ŋ/ sound at the end of a letter/syllable.


panéléng

ᮔ (na) + ◌ᮦ (panyuku) → ᮔᮦ (né)

A diacritic (rarangkén) ⟨◌ᮦ⟩ signifying the vowel /ɛ/ in the Sundanese script.


panyecek

ᮔ (na) + ◌ ᮀ (-ng) → ᮔᮦ (nang)

A diacritic (rarangkén) ⟨◌ ᮀ⟩ signifying the final /ŋ/ in the Sundanese script; anusvara.


panghulu

* From pang- + hulu. Compare Indonesian penghulu, Tagalog pangulo (“president”).
* Sense of diacritic is named after its placement at the top (or head) of the letter.

ᮔ (na) + ◌ᮤ (i) → ᮔᮦ (ni)

a diacritic (rarangkén) ⟨◌ᮤ⟩ signifying the vowel /i/ in the Sundanese script.


pangwisad

ᮔ (na) + ◌ᮂ (-h) → ᮔᮂ (nah)

visarga (a diacritic/rarangkén ⟨◌ᮂ⟩ signifying the final /h/ sound at the end of the letter)


aksara ngalagena

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aksara ngalagena (Sundanese script ᮃᮊ᮪ᮞᮛ ᮍᮜᮌᮨᮔ)

(linguistics, orthography) consonant letters in the Sundanese script

Sundanese script consonants: Aksara Ngalagena: ᮊ


ngalagena

From earlier ngalegena, from Javanese ꦔ꧀ꦭꦼꦒꦼꦤ (nglegena, “naked; be suffice; without diacritics”), ultimately from Sanskrit नग्न (nagna, “naked”). Distant cognate of English naked.

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(linguistics) consonant sounds without diacritics (rarangkén)