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Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed peng- + juru, inherited from Malay penjuru.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: pên‧ju‧ru
Noun
penjuru (first-person possessive penjuruku, second-person possessive penjurumu, third-person possessive penjurunya)
- corner
- Synonyms: pojok, sudut
- direction
- Synonym: arah
Derived terms
Further reading
Malay
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Affixation of peng- + juru (“corner”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zuRu.
Noun
penjuru (Jawi spelling ڤنجورو, plural penjuru-penjuru, informal 1st possessive penjuruku, 2nd possessive penjurumu, 3rd possessive penjurunya)
- A corner.
- Synonyms: sudut, pelosok, pojok
Descendants
Etymology 2
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Noun
penjuru (Jawi spelling ڤنجورو, plural penjuru-penjuru, informal 1st possessive penjuruku, 2nd possessive penjurumu, 3rd possessive penjurunya)
- (archaic) A police officer or a soldier.
- Synonyms: polis, mata-mata, askar, perajurit
Adjective
penjuru (Jawi spelling ڤنجورو)
- (archaic) Brave or courageous.
- Synonyms: berani, gagah
Further reading
- “penjuru” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*zuRu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI