kawasan

Inherited from Malay kawasan, from Classical Malay kawasan (“area”), from Javanese ꦏꦮꦱꦤ꧀ (kawasan, “authorised area”), from Old Javanese kawaśan (“dominion”), from Formosan Proto-Austronesian *kawaS (“year, season, sky, heaven”).^[1]

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kaˈwasan/ [kaˈwa.san]
• Rhymes: -asan
• Syllabification: ka‧wa‧san

kawasan (plural kawasan-kawasan)

1. (geography) region: Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons

   Synonyms: daerah, wilayah, rantau (Standard Malay)

2. area, zone: a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc

• “kawasan” 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.