sekolah menengah pertama

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of sekolah menengah (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) +‎ pertama (“first”) from either

• Calque from Japanese 初等 (shotō, “beginner, primary”) +‎ 中学校 (chūgakkō, “secondary (middle) school”). The post-war Japanese term is 中学校 (chūgakkō), or
• Calque from Chinese 初級中學／初级中学 (chūjí zhōngxué, “junior middle school”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [səˈkolah mənəˈŋah pərˈtama]
• Hyphenation: sê‧ko‧lah, mê‧nê‧ngah, pêr‧ta‧ma

Noun

sekolah menengah pertama

1. (education) junior high school (US), lower secondary school (UK), abbreviated SMP.

Synonyms

• sekolah lanjutan tingkat pertama (dated)

Further reading

• “sekolah menengah pertama” 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.