kakak

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkakaʔ/
• Rhymes: -akaʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧kak

From Malay kakak (“older sister”), from Classical Malay kakak, from Proto-Malayic *kakaʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaka, from Proto-Austronesian *kaka.

• For sense of older brother, semantic loan from Hokkien 哥哥 (ko-ko, “older brother”) and semantic loan from Javanese ꦏꦏꦁ, ꦏꦏ, ꦏꦏꦏ꧀ (kakang, kaka, kakak).
• For sense of form of address to husband in marital relationship, semantic loan from Javanese ꦏꦏꦁ, ꦏꦏ, ꦏꦏꦏ꧀ (kakang, kaka, kakak).

kakak (plural kakak-kakak)

1. (literally or figuratively, formal) older sibling
2. (literally or figuratively, chiefly Sumatra and Kalimantan) older sister
3. (literally or figuratively, chiefly Jakarta and Java) older brother
4. (chiefly Jakarta) a general form of address, typically to an older person (but applicable to same age groups)
5. (colloquial) a form of address to any stranger

• People in areas with Malay populations and speaking vernacular Malay dialects only use kakak to address older sisters, otherwise outside those places like Jakarta, it is gender neutral.
• In formal situations (e.g. to address a customer), kakak may be used to address someone to give an impression of a 'youthful nuance' (i.e., by denoting someone as such).

• KK

• (older sister): see Thesaurus:kakak
• (older brother): see Thesaurus:abang

Inherited from Malay kakak. Onomatopoeic, compare to Tagalog kakak.

kakak

1. quack, cluck
2. laugh

   Synonyms: kakah, kahkah

• “kakak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

kakak

1. Romanization of ꦏꦏꦏ꧀.

From Proto-Malayic *kakaʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaka, from Proto-Austronesian *kaka. Sense of older male sibling lost in Singapore and Malay Peninsular.

• IPA^(key): /kakaʔ/
• Rhymes: -akaʔ, -kaʔ, -aʔ

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kakak (Jawi spelling کاکق, plural kakak-kakak)

1. sister (older woman or girl having the same parents)
2. (rare) sibling (older person who shares same parents)
3. (rare) brother (older male sibling)

   Synonyms: abang, uda

4. term of address for a female acquaintance who is a bit older

   engko (“engku”)

• Malay: kakanda, kak, Kak

Onomatopoeic, compare to Tagalog kakak.

kakak (Jawi spelling کاکق, plural kakak-kakak)

1. cackle (of duck and geese)
2. laugh

   Synonyms: dekah, kakah, kahkah

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “کاکق kakak”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 75
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “کاکق kakak”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 497
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “kakak”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 499

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kakak

1. crow

• Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸), Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2001) Pazih Dictionary (巴宰語詞典) (in Chinese), Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

• cacac — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Onomatopoeic. Compare Indonesian kakak.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkakak/
• Rhymes: -akak
• Syllabification: ka‧kak

kakak (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜃᜃ᜔)

1. cackle or cackling of a hen, duck, etc.

   Synonym: putak

• “kakak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018