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)

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.