keresidenan
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Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed residen + ke- -an, displaced karesidenan, from adapted borrowing of Javanese ꦏꦫꦺꦱꦶꦝꦺꦤꦤ꧀ (karésidhènan, “residency”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kêrésidènan (plural keresidenan-keresidenan)
- residency:
- the name of the official residence of a resident.
- an administrative division of former British Empire and the Dutch East Indies (residentie), which were headed by a resident.
Usage notes
The term is used for Dutch East Indies administrative division in Java of Dutch residentie, which was translated into Japanese 州 (shū, syuu) during Japanese occupation.
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Further reading
- “keresidenan” 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.