cupu

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃu.pu/
  • Rhymes: -pu
  • Hyphenation: cu‧pu

Etymology 1

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Noun

cupu (plural cupu-cupu, first-person possessive cupuku, second-person possessive cupumu, third-person possessive cupunya)

  1. Alternative spelling of cepu
  2. hole in the mortar
  3. hole in the pillar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦕꦸꦥꦸ (cupu).

Noun

cupu (plural cupu-cupu, first-person possessive cupuku, second-person possessive cupumu, third-person possessive cupunya)

  1. ceramic pot

Etymology 3

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Noun

cupu (plural cupu-cupu, first-person possessive cupuku, second-person possessive cupumu, third-person possessive cupunya)

  1. (colloquial) lame

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

cupu

  1. Romanization of ꦕꦸꦥꦸ

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay cepu, from Tamil செப்பு (ceppu).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃu.pu/
  • Rhymes: -pu
  • Hyphenation: cu‧pu

Noun

cupu

  1. small box or pot.

Derived terms

  • cinupu
  • cinupwan
  • cinupwanan
  • cucupu
  • cupu-cupu

Descendants

  • > Javanese: ꦕꦸꦥꦸ (cupu) (inherited)
    • Indonesian: cupu

Further reading

  • "cupu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
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