fakultas

Indonesian

Etymology

• Learned borrowing from Latin facultās. Doublet of fasilitas.
• Displaced, since 1954, earlier loanword fakulteit, fakultet and fakultit, from Dutch faculteit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faˈkʊltas]
• Hyphenation: fa‧kul‧tas

Noun

fakultas (plural fakultas-fakultas, first-person possessive fakultasku, second-person possessive fakultasmu, third-person possessive fakultasnya)

1. (education) faculty, division of a university.

Alternative forms

• fakulti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Descendants

• → Tetum: fakultas

Further reading

• “fakultas” 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.