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Peranakan Indonesian
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Borrowed from Arabic نَفْس (nafs, “spirit, life”). Doublet of nafsoe.
napsoe
- passion, lust, appetite, anger
- kerna ja poenja napsoe birahi[1] ― ...because the person has lust.
- ^ Tjoe Bou San (1907) Pembalesan Kedji (in Peranakan Indonesian), Sin Po, page 24