kelurahan

== Indonesian == === Etymology === Affixed lurah (“urbanized fourth-level administrative division chief executive officer”) +‎ ke- -an, borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦸꦫꦲꦤ꧀ (kalurahan). Doublet of kalurahan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kə.lu.ˈrah.an/ Rhymes: -an Hyphenation: kê‧lu‧rah‧an === Noun === kêlurahan (plural kelurahan-kelurahan) subdistrict a county-level division below the kecamatan government in Indonesia ==== Usage notes ==== Displaced Japanese 市區(しく) (shiku, “municipal district, urban subdistrict”), romanised as siku in official publication. Due to special status of Yogyakarta, rural fourth-level division is called kalurahan, an unadapted borrowing, which is known as desa (literally “village”) in other part of Indonesia, while the urbanized one kept the adapted spelling of kelurahan. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Javanese: ꦏꦼꦭꦸꦫꦲꦤ꧀ (kelurahan) === Further reading === “kelurahan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016