Homonym, Homophone, Homograph.
Based on Cambridge
Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, there are three kind of words which have
similarity in spelling, pronouncing, or writing and the meaning is also
different.
1. Homonym is a word
that sounds the same or is spelled the same as another word but it has a
different meaning.
e.g. : 'Bow'
(= bend at the waist) and 'bow' (= weapon) are also homonyms.
2. Homophone is a word
which is pronounced the same as another word but has a different meaning or a
different spelling or both.
e.g. : The
words 'so' and 'sew' are homophones.
3. Homograph is a word
which is spelled the same as another word and might be pronounced the same or
differently, but which has a different meaning.
e.g. : 'Bow'
meaning the front of a ship, 'bow' meaning a loop made in a string or ribbon
and 'bow' meaning a device used to shoot arrows are all
homographs.
Some cases like that are also in bahasa Indonesia. There are a homonym, a homophone, and a homograph that is little confusing. We know the meaning based on the context. Of course if we utter 2 different sentences, a word called homonym or homophone or homograph in those sentences have a different meaning. Now, I am going to give you the explanation of homonym in bahasa Indonesia, whereas the homophone and homograph will be explained soon.
