akang

Ambonese Malay

Particle

akang

  1. future tense marker

Preposition

akang

  1. for

Indonesian

Etymology

From Sundanese akang (elder brother).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /akaŋ/
  • Rhymes: -akaŋ, -kaŋ, -aŋ

Noun

akang (plural akang-akang)

  1. (literally or figuratively, chiefly Banten and West Java) elder brother

Synonyms

Thesaurus:abang

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

Variant of kakak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /akaŋ/
  • Rhymes: -akaŋ, -kaŋ, -aŋ

Noun

akang (Jawi spelling اکڠ, plural akang-akang)

  1. older sister
  2. (rare) older brother
  3. (rare) older sibling

Synonyms

Sundanese

Etymology

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aka-ŋ, from *aka (elder sibling).[1] Cognate with Javanese ꦲꦏꦁ (akang).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.kaŋ/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

akang (Sundanese script ᮃᮊᮀ)

  1. older brother
    Synonyms: aa, aka, kakang, aang
    Coordinate term: tétéh

References

  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aka”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI