keresidenan

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed residen +‎ ke- -an, displaced karesidenan, from adapted borrowing of Javanese ꦏꦫꦺꦱꦶꦝꦺꦤꦤ꧀ (karésidhènan, “residency”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /kəresiˈdɛnan/ [kə.re.siˈdɛ.nan]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnan
  • Syllabification: ke‧re‧si‧de‧nan

Noun

kêrésidènan (plural keresidenan-keresidenan)

  1. residency:
    1. the name of the official residence of a resident
    2. an administrative division of former British Empire and the Dutch East Indies (residentie), which were headed by a resident

Usage notes

The term is used for Dutch East Indies administrative division in Java of Dutch residentie, which was translated into Japanese 州 (shū, syuu) during Japanese occupation.

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