raudatul athfal
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Arabic رَوْضَة أَطْفَال (rawḍa(t) ʔaṭfāl, “kindergarten”) as رَوْضَة (rawḍa, “garden”) + أَطْفَال (ʔaṭfāl, “children”), from Calque of German Kindergarten (“kindergarten”, literally “garden of children”). Doublet of taman kanak-kanak.
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Noun edit
raudatul athfal (first-person possessive raudatul athfalku, second-person possessive raudatul athfalmu, third-person possessive raudatul athfalnya)
- (Islamic education) kindergarten.
Usage notes edit
In Indonesia, taman kanak-kanak is used by kindergarten which is under supervision of Ministry of Education. Islamic kindergarten supervised by Ministry of Religious Affairs use raudatul athfal.
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Further reading edit
- “raudatul athfal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.