Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

From Malay kembar, ultimately from Austroasiatic (cf. Proto-Aslian *kəmbaar).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [kəmˈbar]
  • Hyphenation: kêm‧bar

Adjective edit

kembar

  1. twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus, or of two similar or closely related objects)
  2. similar, alike, comparable.
    Synonym: serupa
  3. copy: the result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
    Synonyms: kopi, rangkap

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Javanese edit

Romanization edit

kembar

  1. Romanization of ꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦂ.

Malay edit

Etymology edit

From Austroasiatic (cf. Proto-Aslian *kəmbaar (twin), Bahnar kơmar (twin), Ngeq kampʌaːr (twin), Alak baːr (twin)).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

kembar (Jawi spelling کمبر, plural kembar-kembar, informal 1st possessive kembarku, 2nd possessive kembarmu, 3rd possessive kembarnya)

  1. twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus, or of two similar or closely related objects)

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Indonesian: kembar
  • Bikol Central: kambal
  • Javanese: ꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦂ (kembar)
  • Sambali: kambal
  • Tagalog: kambal

Further reading edit