praja
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Javanese ꦥꦿꦗ (praja, “kingdom, realm; court; capital city”), from Old Javanese prajā (“all subjects, country, realms”), from Sanskrit प्रजा (prajā, “subject of a king, rule”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpraja (first-person possessive prajaku, second-person possessive prajamu, third-person possessive prajanya)
- nation, city
- (colloquial) civil servant, pamong praja.
- (colloquial) the candidate of pamong praja, who are educated by Ministry of Home Affairs (Indonesia).
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “praja” 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.
Javanese
editRomanization
editpraja
- Romanization of ꦥꦿꦗ
Sicilian
editAlternative forms
edit- pragia (aulic)
- pilaja (Gallo-Italic of Sicily, Ferla~Sortino)
- spraja
- playa (borrowed recently from Spanish, as a the prestige variant)
Etymology
editFrom Late Latin plagia, from Latin plaga (“tract, region”).
Cognate with Galician praia, Portuguese praia Spanish playa, Catalan platja, Occitan plaja, French plage and Italian spiaggia.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpraja f (plural praji)
- beach (shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly)
See also
editCategories:
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Indonesian colloquialisms
- Javanese non-lemma forms
- Javanese romanizations
- Sicilian terms derived from Late Latin
- Sicilian terms inherited from Latin
- Sicilian terms derived from Latin
- Sicilian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Sicilian/aja
- Sicilian lemmas
- Sicilian nouns
- Sicilian feminine nouns
- scn:Geography