kecamatan

English

Etymology

From Indonesian kecamatan.

Noun

kecamatan (plural kecamatans)

  1. A district in Indonesia.
    • 2007, Anwar Shah, Participatory Budgeting, page 179:
      However,rather than a central fund for which communities compete through project proposals, the project allocates block grants of about $43,000–$125,000 a year directly to all participating kecamatans and villages.

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed of camat +‎ ke- -an, from Javanese ꦏꦕꦩꦠꦤ꧀ (kacamatan).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kə.t͡ʃa.ma.tan/
  • Hyphenation: kê‧ca‧mat‧an

Noun

kêcamatan (plural kecamatan-kecamatan)

  1. district
  2. (government) the third-level administrative division in Indonesia, previously Dutch onderdistrict (“subdistrict”)
    Hyponyms: distrik, kapanewon, kemantren

Usage notes

  • Kecamatan is used for Dutch East Indies administrative division in Java of Dutch onderdistrict (literally “subdistrict”), which was replaced by Japanese 村 (son) during Japanese occupation
  • because of special status, kecamatan is replaced by distrik in Papua and West Papua and kapanewon and kemantren in Yogyakarta

Descendants

  • → English: kecamatan

Further reading

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