kelurahan

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed lurah (“urbanized fourth-level administrative division chief executive officer”) +‎ ke- -an, borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦸꦫꦲꦤ꧀ (kalurahan). Doublet of kalurahan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kə.lu.ˈrah.an/
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Hyphenation: kê‧lu‧rah‧an

Noun

kêlurahan (plural kelurahan-kelurahan)

  1. subdistrict
  2. a county-level division below the kecamatan government in Indonesia

Usage notes

  • Displaced Japanese 市區(しく) (shiku, “municipal district, urban subdistrict”), romanised as siku in official publication.
  • Due to special status of Yogyakarta, rural fourth-level division is called kalurahan, an unadapted borrowing, which is known as desa (literally “village”) in other part of Indonesia, while the urbanized one kept the adapted spelling of kelurahan.

Descendants

  • → Javanese: ꦏꦼꦭꦸꦫꦲꦤ꧀ (kelurahan)

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