pupuh
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦥꦸꦥꦸꦃ (pupuh, “song; eye drop; to hit; to war; to fight”), from Old Javanese pupuh (“stroke, blow; fight, battle; musical mallet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpʊ.pʊh/
- Rhymes: -pʊh
- Hyphenation: pu‧puh
Noun
pupuh (plural pupuh-pupuh, first-person possessive pupuhku, second-person possessive pupuhmu, third-person possessive pupuhnya)
- (literature, music) songs that are bound by the number of syllables in one verse, the number of lines, and the game of the song
Derived terms
- berpupuh
- memperpupuhkan
- memupuh
Further reading
- “pupuh” 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.
Javanese
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