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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay kawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban.
Pronunciation
Noun
kawan (plural kawan-kawan, first-person possessive kawanku, second-person possessive kawanmu, third-person possessive kawannya)
- friend (person whose company one enjoys)
- Synonyms: bendu, dongan, handai, handai tolan, kamerad, kanca, kanti, karib, kenalan, kolega, kontak, mitra, perepat, rafik, rekan, sahabat, saki, sejawat, sekutu, sobat, sohib, teman, tolan
- (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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Javanese
Romanization
kawan
- Romanization of ꦏꦮꦤ꧀
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban.
Pronunciation
Noun
kawan (Jawi spelling کاون, plural kawan-kawan, informal 1st possessive kawanku, 2nd possessive kawanmu, 3rd possessive kawannya)
- friend (person whose company one enjoys)
- flock
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Affixed terms and other derivations
Regular affixed derivations:
Classifier
kawan
- Classifier used for animals in flocks.
Pronoun
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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See also
Old Javanese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.wan/
- Rhymes: -wan
- Hyphenation: ka‧wan
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban.
Noun
kawan
- companion; group
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Descendants
Etymology 2
Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
kawan
- a particular kind of fish
Further reading
- "kawan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay kawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban (“companion, member of a group (of animals or people); friend”). Doublet of kaban.
Pronunciation
Noun
kawan (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜈ᜔)
- herd; flock; school; swarm (group of animal together, especially of the same kind)
- Synonyms: kamada, grupo, langkay, pulutong, ganado, kuyog, (obsolete) kaban
- multitude; large number
- Synonym: kulumpol
Derived terms
Further reading
- “kawan” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, 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; et al. (2023) “*kaban₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Anagrams
Yogad
Noun
kawán
- typhoon