kesehatan

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixation of sehat (“healthy”) +‎ ke- -an, from Malay kesihatan. The sense “a state of balance” is a semantic loan from English health.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kəsɛˈhatan/ [kə.sɛˈha.t̪an]
• Rhymes: -atan
• Syllabification: ke‧se‧ha‧tan

Noun

kêsèhatan (plural kesehatan-kesehatan)

1. health
   1. the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness
   2. a state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level

      Kesehatan finansial. ― Financial health.

Alternative forms

• hat (clipping)

Hyponyms

• kesehatan jasmani
• kesehatan jiwa
• kesehatan kerja
• kesehatan lingkungan
• kesehatan masyarakat
• kesehatan mental
• kesehatan okupasi
• kesehatan organisasi

Further reading

• “kesehatan”, 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