awalan

Indonesian

Etymology

awal +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈwalan/ [aˈwa.lan]
• Rhymes: -alan
• Syllabification: a‧wa‧lan

Noun

awalan (plural awalan-awalan)

1. prefix:
   1. (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning.

      Synonym: prefiks

      Antonyms: akhiran, sufiks

      Hypernyms: afiks, imbuhan

   2. (telecommunications) A set of digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is.
2. (sports) square off

Hypernyms

• imbuhan (“affix”)

Coordinate terms

• (types of affixes): afiks/imbuhan, ambifiks, sirkumfiks, konfiks, infiks/sisipan, interfiks, prefiks/awalan, sufiks/akhiran, suprafiks

See also

• kata dasar (“base word”)

Further reading

• “awalan” 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.