kesehatan

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixation of sehat (“healthy”) +‎ ke- -an, from Malay kesihatan. The sense “a state of balance” is a semantic loan from English health.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /kəsɛˈhatan/ [kə.sɛˈha.t̪an]
  • Rhymes: -atan
  • Syllabification: ke‧se‧ha‧tan

Noun

kêsèhatan (plural kesehatan-kesehatan)

  1. health
    1. the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness
    2. a state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level
      Kesehatan finansial.
      Financial health.

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