punya

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Baba Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Malay punya. Semantic loan from Hokkien (ê).

Particle

punya

  1. possessive particle
    gua punya ruma.My house (literally, “I have house.”)

Synonyms

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay punya. First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. Possibly a back-formation from mempunyai.

Pronunciation

Noun

punya (first-person possessive punyaku, second-person possessive punyamu, third-person possessive punyanya)

  1. owner

Synonyms

Verb

punya

  1. to have
    Saya punya kamus baru.
    • I have a new dictionary.
  2. to own
    Buku itu kepunyaan saya.

Conjugation

Conjugation of punya (meng-, transitive)
Root punya
Active Involuntary /
Perfective
Passive Basic /
Imperative
Jussive
Active mempunyai terpunyai dipunyai
Locative
Causative / Applicative1 mempunyakan terpunyakan dipunyakan
Causative
Locative
Causative / Applicative1
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
This word has an irregular derivation due to etymological reasons or speakers' habits.
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Synonyms

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

Clipping of empunya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *empu-ni-a, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *empu. Compare Tagalog impó (grandmother).[1]

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay (punyā) in the form (punyāña).

In the sense of possessive/genitive particle, semantic loan from Hokkien (ê).

Pronunciation

Noun

punya (Jawi spelling ڤوڽا)

  1. owner
    Synonyms: pemunya, pemilik, empunya, tuan, yang punya, tuan punya

Particle

punya (Jawi spelling ڤوڽا)

  1. (informal) possessive particle
    Adam punya bukuAdam's book

Descendants

  • Ambonese Malay: pung
  • North Moluccan Malay: pi
  • Kupang Malay: pung
  • Manado Malay: pe
  • Papuan Malay: pu

Verb

punya (Jawi spelling ڤوڽا)

  1. to have
    Synonyms: punyai, ada
    Saya punya enam buku.
    I have six books.
  2. to own
    Synonym: punyai
    Saya punya dua buah rumah.
    I own two houses.
  3. (spoken) Emphasizes a word that is repeated
  4. owned by; under someone's ownership
    Synonyms: kepunyaan, hak, milik
    rumah punya akuhouse that is owned by me

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*empu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

Old Khmer

Alternative forms

Noun

punya

  1. Latin script form of បុន្យ, alternative spelling of បុណ្យ (puṇya, merit)