universiti
التعريفات والمعاني
== Iban ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from English university.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /junivərsiti/
=== Noun ===
universiti
university
== Malay ==
=== Alternative forms ===
universitas (Indonesia incl. Riau)
يونيباسيتي (obsolete Jawi form)
=== Etymology ===
From English university, from Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "A number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”). Compare Tagalog unibersidad.
=== Pronunciation ===
(English-based) IPA(key): /juˌnivə(r)ˈsiti/ [juˌni.və(r)ˈsi.t̪i]
(spelling-based, uncommon)
(Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard) IPA(key): /uˌnivə(r)ˈsiti/ [ʔuˌni.və(r)ˈsi.t̪i]
(Literary Standard) IPA(key): /uˌnivərˈsiti/ [ʔuˌni.vərˈsi.t̪i]
Rhymes: -ti, -i
Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧ti
=== Noun ===
universiti (Jawi spelling اونيۏرسيتي, plural universiti-universiti or universiti2)
(Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore) A university.
==== Further reading ====
"universiti" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017