kelurahan

Affixed lurah (“urbanized fourth-level administrative division chief executive officer”) +‎ ke- -an, borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦭꦸꦫꦲꦤ꧀ (kalurahan). Doublet of kalurahan.

• IPA^(key): /kə.lu.ˈrah.an/
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: kê‧lu‧rah‧an

kêlurahan (plural kelurahan-kelurahan, first-person possessive kelurahanku, second-person possessive kelurahanmu, third-person possessive kelurahannya)

1. subdistrict
2. A county-level division below the kecamatan government in Indonesia.

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.

• → Javanese: ꦏꦼꦭꦸꦫꦲꦤ꧀ (kelurahan)

• “kelurahan” 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.