cunia

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Possibly from Hokkien 船仔 (chûn-iá, small boat), with an obsolete form of the suffix.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cunia (first-person possessive cuniaku, second-person possessive cuniamu, third-person possessive cunianya)

  1. (dialectal) boat (a rather large canoe made of wood, used to transport goods)
    Synonym: perahu

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Medhurst, Walter Henry (1832) “Yëá 仔”, in A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language, According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms: Containing About 12,000 Characters, (overall work in Hokkien and English), Macao: The Honorable East India Company's Press by G. J. Steyn and Brother, page 736
  2. ^ Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum[2], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN

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