sekolah lanjutan tingkat pertama

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of sekolah lanjutan (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) +‎ tingkat (“grade”) +‎ pertama (“first”) from either

Calque of Japanese 初等 (shotō, “beginner, primary”) +‎ 中学校 (chūgakkō, “secondary (middle) school”). The post-war Japanese term is 中学校 (chūgakkō), or
Calque of Chinese 初級中學／初级中学 (chūjí zhōngxué, “junior middle school”).

Noun

sekolah lanjutan tingkat pertama

(education, dated) junior high school (US), lower secondary school (UK).

Synonyms

sekolah menengah pertama

Further reading

“sekolah lanjutan tingkat pertama” 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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