sunat

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsunat̪̚]
• Hyphenation: su‧nat
• Rhymes: -at

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

• bersunat
• menyunat
• menyunati
• menyunatkan
• penyunat
• penyunatan
• sunatan

 

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

• “sunat” 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.

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -at

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

• sonat — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /suˈnat/ [sʊˈn̪at̪̚]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: su‧nat

Noun

sunát (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜈᜆ᜔) (obsolete)

1. circumcision

   Synonym: tuli

2. female circumcision; excision of a woman's clitoris as part of Brunei custom [16th–17th c.]

Derived terms

• magsunat
• masunat
• pasunat
• sumunat
• sunatin

 

See also

• katan

 

Further reading

• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 617: “Zircunçiſion) Sonat (pc) M. de mujer en la clica coſtũbre de Burnay, vſauan la eſtos naſoſonat ca?”
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 157
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2017) Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 543