kawan

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkawan/ [ˈka.wan]

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• Rhymes: -awan
• Syllabification: ka‧wan

kawan (plural kawan-kawan)

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.

• “kawan” 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.

kawan

1. romanization of ꦏꦮꦤ꧀

• کاون

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban.

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

kawan (Jawi spelling کاون, plural kawan-kawan)

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

• (company enjoyed): teman, rakan, sahabat

kawan

1. Classifier used for animals in flocks.

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)

• aku / اکو
• saya / ساي

• IPA^(key): /ka.wan/
• Rhymes: -wan
• Hyphenation: ka‧wan

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban.

kawan

1. companion; group

• >? Javanese: ꦏꦮꦤ꧀ (kawan)

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kawan

1. a particular kind of fish

• "kawan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Borrowed from Malay kawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban (“companion, member of a group (of animals or people); friend”). Doublet of kaban.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkawan/ [ˈkaː.wɐn̪]
• Rhymes: -awan
• Syllabification: ka‧wan

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, (obsolete) kaban

2. multitude; large number

   Synonym: kulumpol

• “kawan”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “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; et al. (2023) “*kaban₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• kanaw, nakaw

kawán

1. typhoon