keratabasa

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦼꦫꦠꦧꦱ (keratabasa) (compare Old Javanese kṛta (“done, made”) +‎ bhāṣa (“speech”), Sanskrit कृत (kṛta) +‎ भाषा (bhāṣā)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kə.ra.taˈba.sa/, [kə.ra.t̪aˈba.sa]

Noun

keratabasa (plural keratabasa-keratabasa)

1. backronym

Further reading

• “keratabasa”, 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