pantun

From Malay pantun.

pantun (plural pantuns)

1. Synonym of pantoum

From Malay pantun.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpantʊn]
• Hyphenation: pan‧tun

pantun (first-person possessive pantunku, second-person possessive pantunmu, third-person possessive pantunnya)

1. (poetry) pantoum: a poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
2. sarcasm, specifically indirect reference.

   Synonyms: sarkasme, sindiran

3. (archaic) synonym of jawab (“answer”)
4. (drama) a Sundanese oral narrative performance.

• “pantun” 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.

According to Za'aba, the word is thought to evolve from the Malay word sepantun (Jawi: سڤنتون) meaning 'same as'.[1][2]

Anther theory suggests that the word originated from penuntun (“guider”),[3][4] from noun-building prefix peng- and the verb tuntun (“to guide”).[5] Alternatively, Brandstetter suggested that the word originates from Malay tun and its similar sounding variants in Austronesian languages, with multiple meanings; Kapampangan tuntun (“well organized”), Tagalog tonton (“skillful arrangement”), Old Javanese tuntun (“thread”), atuntun (“well arranged”), matuntun (“to lead”), and Toba Batak pantun (“polite; worthy of respect”). Winstedt supported this opinion, noting that in many Austronesian languages, words which suggest 'something set out in rows' gradually gain the new meaning of 'well-arranged words', in prose or in poetry.[6] Ari Welianto suggested that the word is originated from Minangkabau patuntun (“guide”).[7] Compare with Acehnese pantôn.

pantun (Jawi spelling ڤنتون, plural pantun-pantun, informal 1st possessive pantunku, 2nd possessive pantunmu, 3rd possessive pantunnya)

1. (poetry) pantoum

• Indonesian: pantun
• → English: pantun
• → French: pantoum

• “pantun” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.