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English
Noun
daerah (plural daerahs)
- An administrative division in parts of West Africa and Southeast Asia.
Alternative forms
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay daerah, from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira, “circle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
daèrah (plural daerah-daerah, first-person possessive daerahku, second-person possessive daerahmu, third-person possessive daerahnya)
- region; area
- Synonyms: kawasan, wilayah
Derived terms
References
- ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC
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Malay
Etymology
From Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).
Pronunciation
Noun
daerah (Jawi spelling داءيره, plural daerah-daerah, informal 1st possessive daerahku, 2nd possessive daerahmu, 3rd possessive daerahnya)
- district, region, area
Descendants
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