-krasi

Malay

Etymology

Learned borrowing from English -cracy.

This suffix has yet to be fully absorbed into the Malay morphological system and is for now only found in certain borrowings derived from Dutch or English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /-krasi/
  • Hyphenation: -kra‧si

Suffix

-krasi (Jawi spelling ـکراسي)

  1. Adaptation of English -cracy in English loanwords.
    demokrasi ― democracy
    autokrasi ― autocracy
    meritokrasi ― meritocracy

Derived terms

Malay terms suffixed with -krasi
autokrasi
demokrasi
meritokrasi
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