sinden

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦶꦤ꧀ꦝꦺꦤ꧀ (sindhèn), from Old Javanese siṇḍyan (“allusion”), from siṇḍi (“allusion, innuendo”) +‎ -an. Doublet of sindiran (“allusion, satire”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.dɛn/
• Rhymes: -dɛn
• Hyphenation: sin‧den

sinden (plural sinden-sinden)

1. female vocalist at gamelan orchestra

• “sinden”, 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

From Old English sindon, a variant of sind taking the suffix -on by analogy with earon etc.

sinden

1. alternative form of sind

sinden

1. ablative singular of sin