gundik
Indonesian
Etymology
From Tamil கொண்டி (koṇṭi, “prostitute, concubine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡundiʔ/
- Hyphenation: gun‧dik
Noun
gundik (plural gundik-gundik)
- concubine, a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife
- Synonym: selir
- mistress, the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations
- Synonym: munci
Affixed terms
- mempergundik
- mempergundikkan
- pergundikan
Further reading
- “gundik”, 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