negara kota

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of negara (“state”) +‎ kota (“city”), calque of Dutch stadstaat (“city state”).

Noun

negara kota (first-person possessive negara kotaku, second-person possessive negara kotamu, third-person possessive negara kotanya)

1. (government) city state, a sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.

Further reading

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