# kawan
## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈkawan/ [ˈka.wan]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -awan
* Syllabification: ka‧wan

### Noun

kawan (plural kawan-kawan)
* 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
* (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.

#### Affixed terms

* berkawan
* berkawan-kawan
* berkawanan
* kawanan
* memperkawan
* memperkawankan
* mengawan
* mengawani
* perkawanan

#### Compounds

* kawan berbuat
* kawan berlomba
* kawan bicara
* kawan hidup
* kawan sekelas
* kawan sekerja
* kawan sirih
* kawan tebusan

### Further reading

* “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.

## Javanese
### Romanization

kawan
* Romanization of ꦏꦮꦤ꧀

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* کاون

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kawan]
* Rhymes: -awan, -wan, -an

### Noun

kawan (Jawi spelling کاون, plural kawan-kawan, informal 1st possessive kawanku, 2nd possessive kawanmu, 3rd possessive kawannya)
* friend (person whose company one enjoys)
* flock

#### Synonyms

* (company enjoyed): teman, rakan, sahabat

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* perkawan [causative passive] (peR-)
* kawankan [causative benefactive] (-kan)
* kawani [causative (locative) benefactive] (-i)
* berkawan [stative / habitual] (beR-)

### Classifier

kawan
* Classifier used for animals in flocks.

### Pronoun

kawan (Jawi spelling کاون)
* (Johor) I (personal pronoun)
* (Johor) me (direct object of a verb)
* (Johor) me (object of a preposition)
* (Johor) me (indirect object of a verb)
* (Johor) my (belonging to me)

#### Synonyms

* aku / اکو
* saya / ساي

### See also
## Old Javanese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.wan/
* Rhymes: -wan
* Hyphenation: ka‧wan

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaban.

#### Noun

kawan
* companion; group

##### Derived terms

* anakawan
* panakawan
* sakawan
* sakawanan
* samakawan

##### Descendants

* >? Javanese: ꦏꦮꦤ꧀ (kawan)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

kawan
* a particular kind of fish

### Further reading

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

## Tagalog
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

kawan (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜈ᜔)
* herd; flock; school; swarm (group of animal together, especially of the same kind)
    Synonyms: kamada, grupo, langkay, pulutong, ganado, kuyog, (obsolete) kaban
* multitude; large number
    Synonym: kulumpol

#### Derived terms

* kawan-kawan
* magkawan
* magkawan-kawan
* mangawan
* mapangawan
* pangawanan
* pangawanin

### Further reading

* “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

### Anagrams

* kanaw, nakaw

## Yogad
### Noun

kawán
* typhoon