sekolah menengah pertama
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of sekolah menengah (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) + pertama (“first”) from either
- Calque of Japanese 初等 (shotō, “beginner, primary”) + 中学校 (chūgakkō, “secondary (middle) school”). The post-war Japanese term is 中学校 (chūgakkō), or
- Calque of Chinese 初級中學/初级中学 (chūjí zhōngxué, “junior middle school”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (education) junior high school (US), lower secondary school (UK), abbreviated SMP.
Synonyms
[edit]- sekolah lanjutan tingkat pertama (dated)
Further reading
[edit]- “sekolah menengah pertama” 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.