lurah

Borrowed from Old Javanese lurah (“chief, head, officer”, literally “plain, valley; depth, gorge, valley”).

• IPA^(key): /lu.rah/
• Rhymes: -urah
• Hyphenation: lu‧rah

lurah (Balinese script ᬮᬸᬭᬄ)

1. chief, leader, ruler
2. an employee who takes care of irrigating rice fields
3. an employee who collects land tax

• “lurah” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

• Inherited from Malay lurah (“valley; groove”).
• Semantic loan from Javanese ꦭꦸꦫꦃ (lurah, “village chief”, literally “chief”) for the sense of a fourth-level administrative division chief executive officer (compare Old Javanese lurah (“chief, head, officer; plain, valley; ravine, depth, gorge”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.rah/
• Rhymes: -rah, -ah, -h
• Hyphenation: lu‧rah

lurah (plural lurah-lurah or para lurah)

1. (government) the chief executive officer in a subdistrict, urbanized fourth-level administrative division, kelurahan, in Indonesia
2. (Yogyakarta, government) the chief executive officer in a subdistrict, rural fourth-level administrative division, kalurahan, in Yogyakarta

lurah (plural lurah-lurah)

1. valley

   Synonyms: lembah, jurang

2. groove

   Synonym: alur

• “lurah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

lurah

1. romanization of ꦭꦸꦫꦃ

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• IPA^(key): /lurah/
• Hyphenation: lu‧rah

lurah

1. depth, gorge, valley
2. ravine

   Synonyms: curah, juraṅ, paruṅ

3. plain, valley
4. chief, head, officer

• Javanese: ꦭꦸꦫꦃ (lurah, “village chief, chief”)
  • → Indonesian: lurah (semantic loan)
• → Balinese: ᬮᬸᬭᬄ (lurah, “chief, leader, ruler”)

• "lurah" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.