puputan

English

Etymology

From Balinese puputan.

Noun

puputan (plural puputans or puputan)

1. (now historical) A suicidal march towards an enemy as carried out by the aristocracy or ruling class of a Balinese kingdom.
   • 2009, Jeff Lewis, Belinda Lewis, Bali's silent crisis, page 18:

     According to their own records, the Dutch believed that the royal family had determined upon a fight to the death—another puputan—which left them with no alternative but all-out assault.

   • 2012, Adrian Vickers, Bali: A Paradise Created, 2nd edition, Tuttle, page 58:

     The puputan was both a sign to other kings of an end, and a way to achieve liberation of the soul by death in battle.

Balinese

Romanization

puputan

1. Romanization of ᬧᬸᬧᬸᬢᬦ᭄

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.ˈpʊt.an/
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: pu‧put‧an

Etymology 1

Affixed puput +‎ -an, from Minangkabau [Term?].

Noun

puputan (plural puputan-puputan)

1. blow

   Synonyms: embusan, tiupan

Etymology 2

Affixed puput +‎ -an, from Balinese ᬧᬸᬧᬸᬢᬦ᭄ (puputan) and Javanese ꦥꦸꦥꦸꦠꦤ꧀ (puputan), from Old Javanese puputan (“end”).

Noun

puputan (plural puputan-puputan)

1. Balinese suicidal fight to the death
2. last stand
3. ceremony marking the falling off of the cord

Further reading

• “puputan” 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.