sekolah menengah umum

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of sekolah menengah (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) +‎ umum (“general”), from

• Calque of Dutch algemene middelbare school of algemene (“common, general”) +‎ middelbare (“secondary”) +‎ school.
• Compare to Chinese 普通高中.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə.ko.lah mə.nə.ŋah u.mʊm/
• Hyphenation: sê‧ko‧lah, mê‧nê‧ngah, u‧mum

Noun

sekolah menengah umum

1. (education, historical) senior high school (US), upper secondary school (UK), abbreviated SMU.

Usage notes

The terms for general upper secondary education are sekolah menengah tinggi (1942-1946), sekolah menengah umum atas (1946-1950), sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas (1963-1967), sekolah menengah umum (1994-2004), and sekolah menengah atas (1950-1961, 1968-1993, 2004-now).

Synonyms

• sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas (dated)
• sekolah menengah tinggi (dated)
• sekolah menengah atas
• sekolah menengah umum atas (dated)

Further reading

• “sekolah menengah umum” 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.