Where does “kekuatan” come from?

kekuatan (Malay) comes from Pipil kuat, from Javanese kuwat, from Arabic قُوَّة.

kekuatan (Malay): strength

Definitions

kekuatan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Pipil	kuat	snake
2	Javanese	kuwat	physically strong
3	Arabic	قُوَّة	—

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Malay	ke- -an	ness; appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of (the adjective)", "the quality of (the adjective)", or "the measure of (the adjective)"
2	Proto-Malayic	*kə- -an	—
3	Proto-Austronesian	*ka- -an	—