kepala sekolah

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of kepala (“head”) +‎ sekolah (“school”), calque of Dutch schoolhoofd (“headteacher, principal”, literally “school head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəpala səkolah/

Noun

kêpala sêkolah

1. (education) headteacher, principal

   Synonyms: direktur, guru besar (Malay), guru kepala

Alternative forms

• kepsek

Further reading

• “kepala sekolah”, 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