kawan
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay kawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban.
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Noun edit
kawan (plural kawan-kawan, first-person possessive kawanku, second-person possessive kawanmu, third-person possessive kawannya)
- friend (person whose company one enjoys)
- (politics) comrade
- Hanya beberapa orang pemimpin PKI berhasil menyelamatkan diri ke luar negeri, di antaranya anggota Central Comite PKI, Kawan Musso.
- Only several PKI leaders succeeded in saving themselves by traveling abroad, one of them being Comrade Musso, a member of the Central Committee of the PKI.
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Further reading edit
- “kawan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kawan (Jawi spelling کاون, plural kawan-kawan, informal 1st possessive kawanku, 2nd possessive kawanmu, 3rd possessive kawannya)
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Affixed terms and other derivations
Classifier edit
kawan
- Classifier used for animals in flocks.
Pronoun edit
kawan (Jawi spelling کاون)
- (Johor) I (personal pronoun)
- (Johor) me (direct object of a verb)
- (Johor) me (object of a preposition)
- (Johor) me (indirect object of a verb)
- (Johor) my (belonging to me)
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Malay personal pronouns
singular | plural | ||
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1st person | standard | saya / ساي aku/ku- / اکو / كو- (informal/towards God) -ku / -كو (informal possessive) hamba / همبا (dated) |
kami / کامي (exclusive) kita orang / كيت اورڠ (informal exclusive) kita / کيت (inclusive) |
royal | beta / بيتا | ||
2nd person | standard | kamu / کامو anda / اندا (formal) | |
engkau/kau- / اڠکاو/ كاو- (informal/towards God) awak / اوق (friendly/older towards younger) -mu / -مو (possessive) |
awak semua / اوق سموا kamu semua / كامو سموا kalian / کالين (informal) kau orang / كاو اورڠ (informal) | ||
royal | tuanku / توانكو | ||
3rd person | standard | dia / دي ia / اي beliau / بلياو (honorific) -nya / -ڽ (possessive) |
mereka / مريک dia orang / دي اورڠ (informal) |
royal | baginda / بݢيندا |
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
From Malay kawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban. Doublet of kaban.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kawan (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜈ᜔)
- herd; flock; school; swarm (group of animal together, especially of the same kind)
- multitude; large number
- Synonym: kulumpol
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “kawan” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “kawan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 83
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 103
- Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*kaban₁”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
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Noun edit
kawán