sunat

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: su‧nat

Etymology 1

From Javanese sunat.

Noun

sunat (plural sunat-sunat, first-person possessive sunatku, second-person possessive sunatmu, third-person possessive sunatnya)

  1. circumcision (excising foreskin from penis)
    Synonyms: khitan, sirkumsisi

Affixed terms

Etymology 2

Noun

sunat (plural sunat-sunat, first-person possessive sunatku, second-person possessive sunatmu, third-person possessive sunatnya)

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of sunah (“recommended practice”)

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “a recommended practice”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sunat (Jawi spelling سونت, plural sunat-sunat, informal 1st possessive sunatku, 2nd possessive sunatmu, 3rd possessive sunatnya)

  1. (Islam) circumcision (excising foreskin from penis)

Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of suna.

Noun

sunat n (uncountable)

  1. called

Declension

declension of sunat (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) sunat sunatul
genitive/dative (unui) sunat sunatului
vocative sunatule

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سُنَّت (sunnat), from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna). Compare Maranao sonat (“clean”), Tausug sunnat (“circumcise by lightly scraping the clitoris”), and Malay sunat (“circumcision”). Doublet of sunna.

Pronunciation

Noun

sunát (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜈᜆ᜔) (obsolete)

  1. circumcision
    Synonym: tuli
  2. female circumcision; excision of a woman's clitoris as part of Brunei custom

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

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