Jump to content

daerah

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

daerah (plural daerahs)

  1. An administrative division in parts of West Africa and Southeast Asia.

Alternative forms

[edit]

Indonesian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Malay daerah, from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira, circle).[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

daérah (plural daerah-daerah, first-person possessive daerahku, second-person possessive daerahmu, third-person possessive daerahnya)

  1. region; area
    Synonyms: kawasan, wilayah
  2. (historical, 1942-1945) province

Derived terms

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

[edit]

Malay

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

daerah (Jawi spelling داءيره, plural daerah-daerah, informal 1st possessive daerahku, 2nd possessive daerahmu, 3rd possessive daerahnya)

  1. district, region, area

Descendants

[edit]
  • Indonesian: daerah

Further reading

[edit]