bujangga

Indonesian

Alternative forms
  • boedjangga (pre-1947)
  • budjangga (pre-1967)

Etymology

From Malay bujangga, from Classical Malay bujangga, from Javanese bujangga, from Old Javanese bhujangga.

  • A possible corruption of Sanskrit पूजाङ्ग (pūjāṅga) from पूजा (pūjā) +‎ अङ्ग (aṅga); doublet of pujangga.
  • A possible corruption of Old Javanese bujaṅ, wujaṅ (“young (unmarried) person”); doublet of bujang. According to van der Kroef (1950), this was happened due to Sanskritization of the Javanese court.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bu.d͡ʒaŋ.ɡa/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧jang‧ga

Noun

bujangga

  1. (obsolete) priest, sage
  2. (dated) poet

References
  1. Justus M. van der Kroef (1950-04) “The Javanese Term Boedjangga”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 70, number 2, →DOI, page 73

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