sekolah rakyat

Indonesian

Etymology

From compound of sekolah (“school”) +‎ rakyat (“people”), from calque from Japanese 國民學校 or Japanese 国民学校 (こくみんがっこう, kokumingakkō, literally “people school”), from calque of German Volksschule (“primary school”, literally “people-school”). Cognate of Korean 국민학교 (gungminhakgyo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [səˈkolah ˈraʔjat̚]
• Hyphenation: sê‧ko‧lah‧rak‧yat

Noun

sekolah rakyat

1. (education, obsolete) elementary school (US), primary school (UK)

Usage notes

The term was used officially from 1941 to 13 March 1946 during Japanese colonial period, later replaced by the term sekolah dasar.

Further reading

• “sekolah rakyat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.