akang

akang

1. future tense marker

akang

1. for

From Sundanese akang (“elder brother”).

• IPA^(key): /akaŋ/
• Rhymes: -akaŋ, -kaŋ, -aŋ

akang (plural akang-akang)

1. (literally or figuratively, chiefly Banten and West Java) elder brother

Thesaurus:abang

• “akang”, 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

Variant of kakak.

• IPA^(key): /akaŋ/
• Rhymes: -akaŋ, -kaŋ, -aŋ

akang (Jawi spelling اکڠ, plural akang-akang or akang²)

1. older sister
2. (rare) older brother
3. (rare) older sibling

• kakak

From Malay -kan.

akang

1. indicates transitive imperative verbs

• Marike Ivone Onsu, et al. (2021), Kamus Dwibahasa Melayu Manado-Indonesia (in Indonesian), Manado: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sulawesi Utara

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aka-ŋ, from *aka (“elder sibling”).^[1] Cognate with Javanese ꦲꦏꦁ (akang).

• IPA^(key): /a.kaŋ/

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akang (Sundanese script ᮃᮊᮀ)

1. older brother

   Synonyms: aa, aka, kakang, aang

   Coordinate term: tétéh