kelurahan
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Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Affixed lurah (“urbanized fourth-level administrative division chief executive officer”) + ke- -an, borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦸꦫꦲꦤ꧀ (kalurahan). Doublet of kalurahan.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kêlurahan (plural kelurahan-kelurahan, first-person possessive kelurahanku, second-person possessive kelurahanmu, third-person possessive kelurahannya)
Usage notes[edit]
Due to special status of Yogyakarta, rural fourth-level division is called kalurahan, an unadapted borrowing, which is known as desa (literally “village”) in other part of Indonesia, while the urbanized one kept the adapted spelling of kelurahan.
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Further reading[edit]
- “kelurahan” 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.
Categories:
- Indonesian terms circumfixed with ke- -an
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian doublets
- Indonesian 4-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/an
- Rhymes:Indonesian/an/4 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Administrative divisions
- id:Polities