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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay kembar, ultimately from Austroasiatic (cf. Proto-Aslian *kəmbaar).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: kêm‧bar
Adjective
kembar
- twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus, or of two similar or closely related objects)
- similar, alike, comparable.
- Synonym: serupa
- copy: the result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
- Synonyms: kopi, rangkap
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Javanese
Romanization
kembar
- Romanization of ꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦂ.
Malay
Etymology
From Austroasiatic (cf. Proto-Aslian *kəmbaar (“twin”), Bahnar kơmar (“twin”), Ngeq kampʌaːr (“twin”), Alak baːr (“twin”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
kembar (Jawi spelling کمبر, plural kembar-kembar, informal 1st possessive kembarku, 2nd possessive kembarmu, 3rd possessive kembarnya)
- twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus, or of two similar or closely related objects)
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