lembaga
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay lembaga, from Classical Malay lembaga (“shape”), from Sanskrit [Term?]. Semantic loan from English embryo for “rudimentary plant” sense.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ləmˈbaɡa]
- Hyphenation: lêm‧ba‧ga
Noun
lêmbaga (first-person possessive lembagaku, second-person possessive lembagamu, third-person possessive lembaganya)
- institution; institute
- Synonym: badan
- embryo,
- the beginning; the first stage of anything.
- (botany) a rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
Affixed terms
- berlembaga
- kelembagaan
- melembaga
- melembagakan
- pelembagaan
- perlembagaan
Further reading
- “lembaga” 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.
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