Meanings
kosong1
- IndonesiaMalaysiaSingaporenot comparablepostpositionalNot having additional ingredients, such as milk or sugar; plain.
Prata Kosong
Roti prata, plain.
1 more example
Kopi O Kosong
Black coffee, with no sugar added
Kosong2
- A county of Kangwon Province, North Korea.
An American "SR-71" high-speed and high-altitude reconnaissance plane intruded 33 miles within the military security line east of Kosong County of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea yesterday for espionage and hostile acts, according to KCNA.
1979 September 24 [1979 September 21], “American Plane Intrudes Into Airspace of DPRK”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 186, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC International Affairs; United States, page B 4
Origin
kosong · adjective
- Malaykosong“zero, empty”
- Englishkosong
From Malay kosong (“zero, empty”).
More words from Malay
Full word history & related roots →Kosong · proper noun
- Korean고성(高城)
- EnglishKosong
Borrowed from Korean 고성(高城) (Goseong).
More words from Korean
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 高城
- 高城county
Chinese Mandarin 高城
- 高城 (Gāochéng)county
Korean 고성
- 고성 (Goseong)county
Cite this entry
kosong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kosong
“kosong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kosong. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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