kembar

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay kembar, ultimately from Austroasiatic (cf. Proto-Aslian *kəmbaar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kəmˈbar]
• Hyphenation: kêm‧bar

Adjective

kembar

1. twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus, or of two similar or closely related objects)
2. similar, alike, comparable.

   Synonym: serupa

3. copy: the result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.

   Synonyms: kopi, rangkap

Derived terms

• berkembar
• kembaran
• mengembari
• mengembarkan

 

• kembar dampit
• kembar dizigotik
• kembar dua telur
• kembar fraternal
• kembar identik
• kembar monozigotik
• kembar satu telur
• kembar siam
• kembar superfekundasi
• kembar superfetasi

 

Further reading

• “kembar” 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.

Javanese

Romanization

kembar

1. Romanization of ꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦂ.

Malay

Etymology

From Austroasiatic (cf. Proto-Aslian *kəmbaar (“twin”), Bahnar kơmar (“twin”), Ngeq kampʌaːr (“twin”), Alak baːr (“twin”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmbar/
• Rhymes: -əmbar, -bar, -ar

Noun

kembar (Jawi spelling کمبر, plural kembar-kembar, informal 1st possessive kembarku, 2nd possessive kembarmu, 3rd possessive kembarnya)

1. twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus, or of two similar or closely related objects)

Derived terms

• kembaran

Descendants

• Indonesian: kembar
• → Bikol Central: kambal
• → Javanese: ꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦂ (kembar)
• → Sambali: kambal
• → Tagalog: kambal

Further reading

• “kembar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.