puputan

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English

Etymology

From Balinese puputan.

Noun

puputan (plural puputans or puputan)

  1. (now historical) A suicidal march towards an enemy as carried out by the aristocracy or ruling class of a Balinese kingdom.
    • 2009, Jeff Lewis, Belinda Lewis, Bali's silent crisis, page 18:
      According to their own records, the Dutch believed that the royal family had determined upon a fight to the death—another puputan—which left them with no alternative but all-out assault.
    • 2012, Adrian Vickers, Bali: A Paradise Created, 2nd edition, Tuttle, page 58:
      The puputan was both a sign to other kings of an end, and a way to achieve liberation of the soul by death in battle.

Balinese

Romanization

puputan

  1. Romanization of ᬧᬸᬧᬸᬢᬦ᭄

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pu.ˈpʊt.an/
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Hyphenation: pu‧put‧an

Etymology 1

Affixed puput +‎ -an, from Minangkabau .

Noun

puputan (plural puputan-puputan, first-person possessive puputanku, second-person possessive puputanmu, third-person possessive puputannya)

  1. blow
    Synonyms: embusan, tiupan

Etymology 2

Affixed puput +‎ -an, from Balinese ᬧᬸᬧᬸᬢᬦ᭄ (puputan) and Javanese ꦥꦸꦥꦸꦠꦤ꧀ (puputan), from Old Javanese puputan (“end”).

Noun

puputan (plural puputan-puputan, first-person possessive puputanku, second-person possessive puputanmu, third-person possessive puputannya)

  1. Balinese suicidal fight to the death
  2. last stand
  3. ceremony marking the falling off of the cord

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