fakultas

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /faˈkultas/ [faˈkul.t̪as]
• Rhymes: -ultas
• Syllabification: fa‧kul‧tas

Noun

fakultas (plural fakultas-fakultas)

1. (education) faculty, division of a university

Alternative forms

• fakulti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
• faculteit (1901–1947)
• fakulteit, fakultet, fakultit (1947–1972)

Derived terms

• kefakultasan
• sefakultas

Descendants

• → Tetum: fakultas

Further reading

• “fakultas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016