kawan

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay kawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkawan/, [ˈka.wan]
  • Rhymes: -wan, -an, -n
  • Hyphenation: ka‧wan

Noun

kawan (plural kawan-kawan, first-person possessive kawanku, second-person possessive kawanmu, third-person possessive kawannya)

  1. 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
  2. (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.

Affixed terms
  • berkawan
  • berkawan-kawan
  • berkawanan
  • kawanan
  • memperkawan
  • memperkawankan
  • mengawan
  • mengawani
  • perkawanan

Compounds
  • kawan berbuat
  • kawan berlomba
  • kawan bicara
  • kawan hidup
  • kawan sekelas
  • kawan sekerja
  • kawan sirih
  • kawan tebusan

Further reading

Malay

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kawan]
  • Rhymes: -awan, -wan, -an

Noun

kawan (Jawi spelling کاون, plural kawan-kawan, informal 1st possessive kawanku, 2nd possessive kawanmu, 3rd possessive kawannya)

  1. friend (person whose company one enjoys)
  2. flock

Synonyms

Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

  • perkawan [causative passive] (peR-)
  • kawankan [causative benefactive] (-kan)
  • kawani [causative (locative) benefactive] (-i)
  • berkawan [stative / habitual] (beR-)

Classifier

kawan

  1. Classifier used for animals in flocks.

Pronoun

kawan (Jawi spelling کاون)

  1. (Johor) I (personal pronoun)
  2. (Johor) me (direct object of a verb)
  3. (Johor) me (object of a preposition)
  4. (Johor) me (indirect object of a verb)
  5. (Johor) my (belonging to me)

Synonyms

See also
Malay personal pronouns
singular plural
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

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay kawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban. Doublet of kaban.

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈkawan/ [ˈka.wɐn]
  • Rhymes: -awan
  • Syllabification: ka‧wan

Noun

kawan (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜈ᜔)

  1. herd; flock; school; swarm (group of animal together, especially of the same kind)
    Synonyms: kamada, grupo, langkay, pulutong, ganado, kuyog
  2. multitude; large number
    Synonym: kulumpol

Derived terms
  • magkawan
  • magkawan-kawan

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 (2010–) “*kaban₁”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Yogad

Noun

kawán

  1. typhoon
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