kelurahan
Indonesian
editEtymology
editAffixed lurah (“urbanized fourth-level administrative division chief executive officer”) + ke- -an, borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦸꦫꦲꦤ꧀ (kalurahan). Doublet of kalurahan.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkêlurahan (plural kelurahan-kelurahan, first-person possessive kelurahanku, second-person possessive kelurahanmu, third-person possessive kelurahannya)
Usage notes
edit- Displaced Japanese 市區 (shiku, “municipal district, urban subdistrict”), romanised as siku in official publication.
- Due to special status of Yogyakarta, rural fourth-level division is called kalurahan, an unadapted borrowing, which is known as desa (literally “village”) in other part of Indonesia, while the urbanized one kept the adapted spelling of kelurahan.
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editFurther reading
edit- “kelurahan” 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.