nafsoe
Peranakan Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic نَفْس (nafs, “spirit, life”). Doublet of napsoe.
Noun
[edit]nafsoe
- passion, lust, appetite, anger
- tapi itoe nafsoe bikin perkoempoelan gelap saja kira tjoema ada satoe boentoet dari Hung Sew Chuan poenja Thian Tee Hwee di djeman Taiping dan kadoea kerna marika idoep di negri asing jang tida mempoeasken hatinja.[1] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
References
[edit]- ^ Kwee Hing Tjiat (1921) Doea Kapala Batoe [Two Hardheaded (Persons)] (in Peranakan Indonesian), Nauer & Dimmick, page 77