sunting

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sun‧ting

Noun

sunting

1. ringworm bush (Senna alata)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsuntiŋ/ [ˈsun̪.t̪ɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -untiŋ
• Syllabification: sun‧ting

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay sunting (“to edit”).

Verb

sunting (actice menyunting, passive disunting)

1. to edit

   Synonym: edit

Derived terms

• kepenyuntingan (“editorship; editorial”)
• penyunting (“editor”)
• penyuntingan (“editing, the act of editing”)
• suntingan (“edit”)

Etymology 2

From Malay sunting.

Verb

sunting

1. (of men, chiefly dialectal) to marry someone

Etymology 3

From Malay sunting.

Noun

sunting (plural sunting-sunting)

1. ornament (flower etc.) worn behind the ear

Further reading

• “sunting”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016