nyai

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese nyai (ꦚꦲꦶ).

Pronunciation

Noun

nyai (first-person possessive nyaiku, second-person possessive nyaimu, third-person possessive nyainya)

  1. respected older woman.
  2. (obsolete) mistress of a European or Chinese man.
    Hypernym: gundik

Hyponyms

Descendants

  • → Min Nan: 雅 (ngá)[1]

References

  1. ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges . In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208

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