kawasan

Inherited from Malay kawasan, from Classical Malay kawasan (“area”), from Javanese ꦏꦮꦱꦤ꧀ (kawasan, “authorised area”), from Old Javanese kawaśan (“dominion”). Cognate with 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 [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

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

• IPA^(key): /ka.wa.san/
• Rhymes: -san, -an

kawasan (plural kawasan-kawasan or kawasan²)

1. an area
2. a region

• "kawasan" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017