pangkat

Indonesian

Etymology

Reconstructed as peng- +‎ angkat, from Malay pangkat, from Javanese ꦥꦁꦏꦠ꧀ (pangkat, “rank, position, status; grade (school); degree, power; departure”), from Old Javanese paṅkat (“arranged; depart”), aṅkat (“departure, getting up”). Doublet of pengangkat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋkat̚/
• Rhymes: -aŋkat, -kat, -at
• Hyphenation: pang‧kat

Noun

pangkat (plural pangkat-pangkat, first-person possessive pangkatku, second-person possessive pangkatmu, third-person possessive pangkatnya)

1. rank:
   1. a level in an organization such as the military

      Synonyms: tingkat, tingkatan

   2. (mathematics) the maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
2. (mathematics) exponent: the number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the ${\displaystyle 3}$ in ${\displaystyle 2^{3}=8}$.

   Synonym: èksponèn

3. (mathematics) power: A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): ${\displaystyle x^{n}}$, read as "${\displaystyle x}$ to the power of ${\displaystyle n}$" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product ${\displaystyle x\times x\times \cdots \times x}$, where ${\displaystyle x}$ appears ${\displaystyle n}$ times in the product; ${\displaystyle x}$ is called the base and ${\displaystyle n}$ the exponent.

   Synonym: kuasa (Standard Malay)

4. (archaic) rung, step

   Synonym: tingkat

5. (archaic) floor, story

   Synonyms: lantai, lènggèk, tingkat

Preposition

pangkat

1. (mathematics) to the power of

   Dua pangkat tiga sama dengan delapan.

   Two to the power of three equals eight. 2³ = 8.

Derived terms

• berpangkat
• berpangkat-pangkat
• dipangkatkan
• kepangkatan
• memangkatkan
• pemangkatan
• sepangkat

 

Related terms

• angkat
• mangkat

 

Further reading

• “pangkat” 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

pangkat

1. Romanization of ꦥꦁꦏꦠ꧀

Malay

Etymology

Cognate with angkat, from Proto-Malayic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pa-aŋkat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paŋkat/
• Rhymes: -aŋkat, -kat, -at

Noun

pangkat (Jawi spelling ڤڠکت, plural pangkat-pangkat, informal 1st possessive pangkatku, 2nd possessive pangkatmu, 3rd possessive pangkatnya)

1. rank (a level in an organization such as the military)

Descendants

• > Indonesian: pangkat (inherited)

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paŋˈkat/ [pɐŋˈkat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: pang‧kat

Noun

pangkát (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜅ᜔ᜃᜆ᜔)

1. group (of things, animals, people, etc.)
2. clique

Further reading

• “pangkat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018