negara kota

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Compound of negara (state) +‎ kota (city), calque of Dutch stadstaat (city state).

Noun

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negara kota (first-person possessive negara kotaku, second-person possessive negara kotamu, third-person possessive negara kotanya)

  1. (government) city state, a sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.

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