akan

akan

1. (Alak) woman

• kan (Harak)

• Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑkɑn/, [ˈɑ̝kɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -ɑkɑn
• Hyphenation^(key): akan

 

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From Akan Akan.

• akani

akan

1. Akan (West African language spoken mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast)

akan

1. genitive singular of akka

• -kaan, kana

 

From Proto-Gbe *akã́. Cognates include Fon akán, Saxwe Gbe akán, Adja akan, Ewe aka

• IPA^(key): /à.kã́/

àkán (plural àkán lɛ́ or àkán lẹ́)

1. charcoal

• kan, 'kan (clipping)

Inherited from Malay akan, from Proto-Malayic *akən, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *akən.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈakan/ [ˈa.kan]
• Rhymes: -akan
• Syllabification: a‧kan

akan

1. (auxiliary) Used to mark future tense.

   Aku akan malan setelah menyapu lantai.

   I'm going to eat after sweeping the floor.

   Dia akan membelikan aku ponsel baru.

   She will buy me a new cell phone.

   Orang itu akan melompat dari ketinggian jika kita tidak segera menahannya.

   That person is about to jump from a height if we don't hold him back soon.

akan

1. of, about
2. (obsolete) for

• “akan” 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.

• kan (clipping)

From Classical Malay اكن (akan), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aken (“preposition, on, upon; applicative marker”).

• IPA^(key): /akan/
• Rhymes: -kan, -an
• Hyphenation: a‧kan

akan (Jawi spelling اکن)

1. will

   Saya akan membesar.

   I will grow.

2. about to
3. going to

• akan-akan
• seakan-akan
• mengakan
• mengakankan
• keakanan

• Indonesian: akan
• Peranakan Indonesian: aken

akan

1. (transitive) to ignite, set on fire

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

akan m (definite singular akanen, uncountable)

1. Akan language

akan m (definite singular akanen, uncountable)

1. Akan language

Possibly related to Èkìtì Yoruba ịgọ́n, Ọ̀wọ̀ Yoruba igán

• IPA^(key): /á.kã́/

ákán

1. hawk

• ugo (“eagle”)
• ẹyẹ (“bird”)

akan m (uncountable)

1. the Akan language

akan

1. third-person singular present indicative of akay

From Proto-Chamic *ʔikaːn, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hikan, from Proto-Austronesian *Sikan.

akan (classifier drei)

1. fish

• James A. Tharp, Y-Bhăm Ƀuôn-yǎ (1980) A Rhade-English Dictionary with English-Rhade Finderlist (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-58)‎^[1], Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, archived from the original on 1 November 2021, page 3

akan f

1. (uncountable) Akan (language)

akan

1. deleb palm

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[2], 2005

• acano

akan m (uncountable)

1. Akan (Niger-Congo language)
2. Akan (language group spoken in Ghana)

akan

1. Romanization of 𒁛 (akan)

 

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *á-kɪ̃ã̀rã́. Cognates include Nupe kara, Igala íkáakàla, Olukumi akakara, Khana àka, Ayere anká

• IPA^(key): /ā.kã̀/

akàn

1. crab