kepung

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay kepung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kəpuŋ.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kəˈpuŋ/ [kəˈpuŋ]
• Rhymes: -uŋ
• Syllabification: ke‧pung

Verb

kêpung (active mengepung, passive dikepung)

1. to besiege (to surround with armed forces)
2. to encircle, surround

   Synonym: kitari

Derived terms

• berkepung
• kepungan (“something that is besieged; siege; (chiefly dialectal) banquet”)
• pengepung (“besieger”)
• pengepungan (“siege”)
• terkepung (“besieged”)

Further reading

• “kepung” 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.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kepuŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI