awalan

Indonesian

Etymology

From awal +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /aˈwalan/ [aˈwa.lan]
  • Rhymes: -alan
  • Syllabification: a‧wa‧lan

Noun

awalan (plural awalan-awalan)

  1. prefix:
    1. (grammar, linguistic morphology) a morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning
      Synonym: prefiks
      Antonyms: akhiran, sufiks
      Hypernyms: afiks, imbuhan
    2. (telecommunications) a set of digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is
  2. (sports) square off

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Coordinate terms

types of affixes: afiks, imbuhan-imbuhanedit

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