negara persemakmuran
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of negara (“state”) + persemakmuran (“commonwealth”), calque of English Commonwealth of Nations.
Noun
negara persemakmuran (plural negara-negara persemakmuran)
- a state in Commonwealth of Nations, an association of independent, sovereign states most of which formerly constituted the British Empire
Further reading
- “negara persemakmuran” 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.