dongan

Borrowed from Toba Batak dongan. Doublet of dengan.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdoŋan/ [ˈdo.ŋan]
• Rhymes: -oŋan
• Syllabification: do‧ngan

dongan (plural dongan-dongan) (dialectal, North Sumatra)

1. friend

   Synonyms: kanca, kawan, rekan, sobat, teman, tolan

2. clanmate (person in the same marga)

• “dongan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dəŋan.

dongan (Batak spelling ᯑᯬᯝᯉ᯲)

1. friend
2. clanmate

• → Indonesian: dongan

• J. Warneck (1906) Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch‎^[1], Batavia: Landsdrukkerij