puan

Inherited from Malay puan, from clipping of perempuan (“female; girl”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpuan/ [ˈpu.an]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: pu‧an

puan (plural puan-puan)

1. (chiefly formal or literary) Mrs, madam, ma'am

   Synonym: (more common) ibu

• “puan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Clipping of perempuan.

• IPA^(key): /puan/
• (glide-sporadic) IPA^(key): [pu.wan]
• Rhymes: -uan, -wan, -an

puan (Jawi spelling ڤوان, plural puan-puan)

1. Mrs (title for married woman)
2. madam
3. ma'am

• tuan

• “puan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from Javanese ꦥꦸꦲꦤ꧀ (puhan, “dairy milk”, literally “squeezing results”), from ꦥꦸꦃ (puh, “to squeeze, to milk”) + -an. Cognate with Malay perahan (“squeezing results, dairy animal”).^[1]

puan

1. milk

• gulo puan (Palembang, Penesak)
• pisang puan

• H. U. A. Zulkifly (2007) “PUAN”, in Kamus sederhana bahasa Palembang [A simple dictionary of the Palembang language], 2nd edition (in Indonesian), Tangerang: DPC Kerukunan Keluarga Palembang, page 185

From French point. Doublet of punto.

• IPA^(key): /puˈan/
• Hyphenation: pu‧an

puan (definite accusative puanı, plural puanlar)

1. point (unit of scoring in a game or competition)

• “puan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu