abang

abang

1. window (opening for light and air)

• IPA^(key): /abaŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Hyphenation: a‧bang

From Malay abang, of uncertain origin.^[1]

abang (Arab Gundul spelling ابڠ)

1. elder brother

   Synonym: aa'

2. term of address for an older young man

   Synonyms: aa', akang

• bang (vocative)

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦧꦁ (abang, “red”).

abang (Arab Gundul spelling ابڠ)

1. red (the colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries)

   Synonym: mèra

abang (Arab Gundul spelling ابڠ, equative seabang, comparative abangan, excessive keabangan)

1. red (of a red hue)

   Synonym: mèra

See abangan (“rain gutter”).

• Chaer, A. (2009) [1976], “abang”, in Kamus dialek Jakarta [Dictionary of the Jakarta dialect], revised edition (in Indonesian), Depok: Masup Jakarta, →ISBN, page 1
• Batten, C. J. (1868), “Abang”, in De djoeroe basa Betawi: Eenvoudige Bataviaasch-Maleische woordenverzameling [The Betawi translator: A simple Batavian-Malay word collection] (in Dutch), Batavia: H. M. van Dorp, page 1

• bagan, gaban

• IPA^(key): /abaŋ/

abang

1. village

• A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1

• IPA^(key): /abaŋ/
• Hyphenation: a‧bang

abang

1. older brother

• Hyphenation: a‧bang

abang

1. to lease; to rent
2. to hire a prostitute

abang

1. a lease
2. a rent

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:abang.

• baang, banag, banga

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈbaŋ/ [ʔaˈbaŋ]
• Hyphenation: a‧bang

From Proto-Central Philippine *abaŋ, from Proto-Philippine *abaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abaŋ.

abáng (Basahan spelling ᜀᜊᜅ᜔)

1. act of watching for, awaiting

abáng (Basahan spelling ᜀᜊᜅ᜔)

1. very, so

   Synonyms: marhay, abaana

   Abang estrikto kan magurang niya

   His/her parents are so strict.

   Abang sakit mong paintindihon

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦧꦁ (abang).

abang

1. red

• "Besemah" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

abang

1. boat

abáng

1. avarice, greediness

ábang

1. to be within range of a fire

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈabaŋ/ [ˈa.baŋ]
• Rhymes: -abaŋ
• Syllabification: a‧bang

From Malay abang, from Classical Malay ابڠ (abang), from Proto-Austronesian *abaŋ (*aba +‎ *-ŋ), *aba (“father”).

abang (plural abang-abang)

1. (literally or figuratively, chiefly Sumatra, West Kalimantan and Jakarta) elder brother

   Umur abang saya lebih besar tiga tahun.

   My elder brother is three years older than me.

   Nanti malam aku akan ke rumah abang.

   Tonight, I will go to my elder brother's house.

2. a form of respect used for older young man
3. (chiefly West Kalimantan, Sumatra) a form of address to the husband in a marriage or marital relationship

Used to address an elder brother or cousin, a male friend (who is older than oneself is), a husband or a boyfriend. Sometimes used before a name (Bang Samsul, etc). This form of address is used in the Malay-influenced regions (Sumatra, West Kalimantan and Jakarta).

• (older brother): see Thesaurus:abang

From Javanese ꦲꦧꦁ (abang, “red”).

abang (comparative lebih abang, superlative paling abang)

1. (dialectal, chiefly Java) synonym of merah (“red”)

• “abang”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

abang

1. romanization of ꦲꦧꦁ

abang

1. rent money

• IPA^(key): [ˈabaŋ]

abang (Lontara spelling ᨕᨅ)

1. (anatomy) forehead

• (Etymology 1): bang, bung

• IPA^(key): [a.baŋ]

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• Rhymes: -baŋ, -aŋ
• Hyphenation: a‧bang

From Classical Malay ابڠ (abang), from Old Malay habaŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *abaŋ (*aba +‎ *-ŋ), *aba (“father”). Doublet of awang. Sense of older sister in south of the Peninsular and Riau displaced by kakak.

abang (Jawi spelling ابڠ, plural abang-abang or abang²)

1. An older brother or male sibling.
2. (obsolete, Johor, Riau) - older sister or female sibling, ellipsis of abang perempuan

   Synonym: kakak

3. form of address to a male a little older than oneself, but sometimes also to an elder son.
4. form of address used by a wife to a husband.

   Synonyms: kanda, sayang

• Malay: Bang, abam
• Indonesian: abang
• → Min Nan: 阿班 (a-pan)^[1]
• → Thai: บัง (bang)

• kakak
• kakanda - in royal register
• engko
• nana
• uda

From Javanese abang.

abang (Jawi spelling ابڠ, plural abang-abang or abang²)

1. (rare) The colour red.

   Synonym: merah

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “ابڠ abang”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 1
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “ابڠ abang”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 2
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “abang”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 1

• "abang" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• Claudine Salmon (2009), “Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges”, in Archipel‎^[2], volume 78, pages 181-208

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.bʲaŋ/

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• Hyphenation: abang
• Rhymes: -aŋ

abang

1. red

• Ali, Hasan (2002), “abang”, in Kamus Bahasa Daerah Using-Indonesia [Osingese-Indonesian Dictionary]‎^[3], 1st edition (in Indonesian), Banyuwangi: Pemerintah Kabupaten Banyuwangi, page 1

abang

1. rent

abang

1. elder brother (clarification of this definition is needed.)

• Zufri Hidayat et al. (2015). Kamus Bahasa Simalungun–Indonesia (2nd ed.). Medan: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara, p. 1.

From Proto-Central Philippine *abaŋ, from Proto-Philippine *abaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abaŋ. Compare Aklanon abang, Balinese ambang, and Kambera amba.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈbaŋ/ [ʔɐˈbaŋ]

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• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: a‧bang

abáng (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜅ᜔)

1. watcher

   Synonyms: bakay, bantay, guwardiya, tanod

2. trap; snare (placed or set up strategically)
3. act of waiting (for a person, an opportunity, etc.)

   Synonyms: abat, pag-abat

4. act of setting up a trap or snare

• “abang”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “abang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*abaŋ₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• gaban, banga, baang

abáng

1. boat