OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 290

putri

•  princess, in particular the Malay title of the Sultana, since the Ternatese word is jou bòki(eng).prinses; meer speciaal de Maleische titel der Sultane, daar de Ternataansche djooe bòki is(nld).

Note: Valentijn gives the unusual title of jou putri; Ib, p. 361. In the rare case that the Sultan marries a woman from a lower class, she has the title of jou fajaro. At Tidore, on the other hand, it is jou pingi