kembar

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay kembar, ultimately from Austroasiatic (cf. Proto-Aslian *kəmbaar).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kəmˈbar]
  • Hyphenation: kêm‧bar

Adjective

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kembar

  1. twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus, or of two similar or closely related objects)
  2. similar, alike, comparable.
    Synonym: serupa
  3. copy: the result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
    Synonyms: kopi, rangkap

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Javanese

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Romanization

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kembar

  1. Romanization of ꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦂ.

Malay

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Etymology

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From Austroasiatic (cf. Proto-Aslian *kəmbaar (twin), Bahnar kơmar (twin), Ngeq kampʌaːr (twin), Alak baːr (twin)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kembar (Jawi spelling کمبر, plural kembar-kembar, informal 1st possessive kembarku, 2nd possessive kembarmu, 3rd possessive kembarnya)

  1. twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus, or of two similar or closely related objects)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: kembar
  • Bikol Central: kambal
  • Javanese: ꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦂ (kembar)
  • Sambali: kambal
  • Tagalog: kambal

Further reading

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