awalan

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed awal +‎ -an.

Noun

awalan (first-person possessive awalanku, second-person possessive awalanmu, third-person possessive awalannya)

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”)