lurah
Balinese edit
Romanization edit
lurah
- Romanization of ᬮᬸᬭᬄ
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
- Inherited from Malay lurah (“valley; groove”).
- Semantic loan from Javanese ꦭꦸꦫꦃ (lurah, “village chief”, literally “chief”) for the sense of a fourth-level administrative division chief executive officer (compare Old Javanese lurah (“chief, head, officer; plain, valley; ravine, depth, gorge”)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lurah (plural para lurah, lurah-lurah, first-person possessive lurahku, second-person possessive lurahmu, third-person possessive lurahnya)
- (government) The chief executive officer in a subdistrict, urbanized fourth-level administrative division, kelurahan, in Indonesia.
- (Yogyakarta, government) The chief executive officer in a subdistrict, rural fourth-level administrative division, kalurahan, in Yogyakarta.
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
lurah (plural lurah-lurah, first-person possessive lurahku, second-person possessive lurahmu, third-person possessive lurahnya)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “lurah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
lurah
- Romanization of ꦭꦸꦫꦃ
Old Javanese edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lurah
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Javanese: ꦭꦸꦫꦃ (lurah, “village chief, chief”)
- → Indonesian: lurah (semantic loan)
- → Balinese: ᬮᬸᬭᬄ (lurah, “chief, leader, ruler”)
Further reading edit
- "lurah" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.