Indonesian–English dictionary

kadaver

(literary, medicine) A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. [from late 14th c.]

kadensa

The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.

kadipaten

A dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess.

kado

Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

kafan

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

kafe

A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.

kafein

An alkaloid, C8H10N4O2, found naturally in tea and coffee plants, which acts as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system. [from 1830]

kafilah

A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

kafir

(religious slur) A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians.

kaftan

A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.

kaget

Afraid; suffering from fear.

kain

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

kaisar

A title of Roman emperors.

kait

A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

kajian

Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.

kakak

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older,‎ sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)

kakak perempuan

Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.

kakak tiri

The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.

kakap

(informal) A person of importance in a group or organization.

kakas

(physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn).

kakatua

A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot. [from 1610s]

kakek

The parent of someone's parent.

kaki

(computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)

kaki langit

The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.

kaki seribu

Any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments. [from 1601]

kaki tiga

A three-legged stand or mount.

kaku lidah

Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.; wordless.

kala

A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.

kala lampau

(grammar) The past tense.

kalah

(transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).

kalajengking

Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a venomous sting in the end.

kalau

Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition that may be (or prove to be) either true or false.

kalbu

A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥.

kaldron

A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.

kaldus

(uncountable) Water in which food (meat, vegetable, etc.) has been boiled.

kaleidoskop

An instrument consisting of a tube containing mirrors and loose, colourful beads or other objects; when the tube is looked into and rotated, a succession of symmetrical designs can be seen. [from 1817]

kalender

A list of planned events.

kaleng

(NZ, AU, South African, Irish, British, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.

Kali

(Hinduism) A male demon, lord of Kali Yuga and the nemesis of Kalki, tenth avatar of Vishnu.

kalian

(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]

kalibrasi

(technology) The act of calibrating something.

Kalimantan

A Pacific island shared by Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia; the world’s third largest island.

kalimat

(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation. [from 15th c.]

kalium

A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin kalium.

kalkulator

A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; sometimes, an electronic one specifically.

kalkulus

(countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.

kalkun

(countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).

Kalliope

(Greek god) The Muse of eloquence and epic or heroic poetry; the mother of Orpheus with Apollo.

kalong

(intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.

kalor

(uncountable) Thermal energy.

kalsium

The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.

kalung

(jewelry) An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.

kalut

(figuratively) A web, a weave, a tangle.

kamar

(countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. [from 15th c.]

kamar bedah

A room or department where surgery is performed.

kamar kecil

(UK, AU, HK) A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet. [from 19th c.]

kamar mandi

(chiefly, US, South Africa, Canada, Philippines, Australia, euphemism) A lavatory (area where one washes or bathes): a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.

kamar mayat

A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

kamar operasi

A room or department where surgery is performed.

kamar tidur

A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.

kamber

(aviation) The curvature of an airfoil.

kambing

(uncountable) The meat of the aforementioned animal.

kambing hitam

Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.

Kamboja

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Cambodia. Capital: Phnom Penh. Former name: Kampuchea.

kamera

(photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.

kamera video

(computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.

kameramen

Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

kamerawan

Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

Kamerun

A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.

kami

The institution which the speaker/writer is acting for. (This is the editorial we, used by writers and others when speaking with the authority of their publication or organisation.)

Kamis

The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.

kampanye

A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.

kamper

(organic compound) A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, 1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy, also known as laurel camphor or common/ordinary camphor.

kamperfuli

Any of several species of superficially similar plants from Australia

kampret

(intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.

kampung

A small village or a group of houses.

kampung halaman

An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.

kampungan

Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.

kampus

The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

kamsen

A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.

kamu

(archaic, dialectal, literary, religion) . [chiefly up to early 17th c.]

kamuflase

A disguise or covering up.

kamus

A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings or senses, oftentimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information. [ca. 1480]

KamusWiki

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

kan

Used to check listener engagement and (especially) agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof.

Kanada

A country in North America. Capital: Ottawa. Largest city: Toronto.

kanak

(with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.

kanal

An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

kanan

The right side or direction.

kancing

(clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. [from mid-13th c.]

kandang

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

kandar

(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.

kandela

In the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian. Symbol: cd

kandelar

A candle holder with branches to hold more than one candle.

kandelir

A branched, often ornate, light fixture suspended from a ceiling.

kandidat

(originally, jargon) A participant in an examination. [from 1690s]

kandung

(transitive) To hold inside.

kandungan

(medicine) The care of women during and after pregnancy.

kanguru

A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia. [from 18th c.]

kanibal

An organism which eats others of its own or similar species or kind, especially a human or other human-like creature such as a zombie who consumes human flesh.

kanibalisme

The act of eating another of one's own species.

kanji

Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.

kanker

(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.

kanker darah

(oncology, pathology) Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.

Kannada

The Dravidian language that is the official language of the state of Karnataka, India.

kano

(watercraft) A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.

kanselerai

The office or staff of a chancellor.

kanstin

(British spelling) .

kanta

(optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.

kantin

A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.

kanto

One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

kantong pelir

(anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most placental (boreoeutherian) mammals.

kantor

A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:

kantor pusat

The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

kantung udara

(automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.

kanyon

A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.

kap lampu

A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions to avoid glare in the eyes.

kapabilitas

The power or ability to generate an outcome.

kapak

An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.

kapal api

A ship or vessel propelled by steam power.

kapal bantalan udara

(vehicle, genericized trademark) A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.

kapal katung

(vehicle, genericized trademark) A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.

kapal penarik

(watercraft) A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.

kapal perang

Any ship built or armed for naval combat.

kapal selam

(watercraft) A boat that can go underwater.

kapal terbang

(chiefly, US, Canada, Philippines) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.

kapal tunda

(watercraft) A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.

kapal uap

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

kapal udara

(aviation) A self-propelled airship that can be steered.

kapan

(interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.

kapan pun

A/an, each or some, no matter its/their identity or nature.

kapan saja

A/an, each or some, no matter its/their identity or nature.

kapang

(plant disease) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

kapasitas

The ability to hold, receive, or absorb.

kapasitor

(electronics) An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.

kapel

(UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant.

kapis

Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.

kapisa

A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

kapital

(slang, dated) used as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight.

kapitalis

A person who is a supporter of capitalism.

kapitalisme

(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

kapitulasi

The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.

kaplet

A smooth-coated tablet (pill, as in medicine) shaped like a capsule, used as a tamper-resistant alternative to a capsule, or an easy-to-swallow alternative to regular tablets.

kapsikum

Any of various tropical American plants, of the genus Capsicum, principally the species Capsicum annuum and Capsicum frutescens, that are cultivated as edible peppers.

kapsul

(pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.

kapucino

(uncountable) An Italian coffee-based beverage made from espresso to which milk that has been steamed and/or frothed is added; (countable) a cup of this beverage.

kapulaga

An herb, native to India (Elettaria cardamomum.

kapur

(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).

kapur barus

(organic compound) A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, 1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy, also known as laurel camphor or common/ordinary camphor.

kapur tulis

(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).