punya

Baba Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Malay punya.

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 empunya.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈpuɲa/ [ˈpu.ɲa]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uɲa
  • Syllabification: pu‧nya

Verb

punya (active punya, passive dipunya)

  1. (transitive) to have, own
    Saya punya kamus baru.
    I have a new dictionary.

Preposition

punya

  1. (colloquial) of, belonging to
    Dia punya anak sudah di sekolah.
    His child is already in school.

Derived terms

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

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

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

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

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): /ˈpuɲə/ [ˈpu.ɲə]
  • (Baku) IPA(key): /ˈpuɲa/ [ˈpu.ɲa]
  • Rhymes: -ɲa, -a
  • Hyphenation: pu‧nya

Noun

punya (Jawi spelling ڤوڽا)

  1. Someone who owns a certain thing; an owner.
    Synonyms: pemunya, pemilik, empunya, tuan, yang punya, tuan punya
  2. Something that is owned; a possession.
    Synonyms: kepunyaan, hak, milik
    rumah punya Adamhouse that is Adam's possession

Particle

punya (Jawi spelling ڤوڽا, alternative form nya)

  1. (informal) Used to indicate possession, similar to English 's.
    Adam punya bukuAdam's book

Usage notes

  • The more formal way to indicate possession in Malay is by placing the possessed object in front of the possessor, so that, to say "Adam's book", instead of saying "Adam punya buku", one just says "buku Adam".

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.

Affixations

Descendants

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

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)