sekolah menengah
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of sekolah (“school”) + menengah (“middle”), calque of Dutch middelbare school (“high school”, literally “middle school”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [səˈkolah mənəˈŋah]
- Hyphenation: sê‧ko‧lah, mê‧nê‧ngah
Noun
- (education) high school (US), secondary school (UK).
- Synonym: sekolah lanjutan
- Hypernym: sekolah
Hyponyms
Hyponyms of sekolah menengah
- sekolah menengah atas
- sekolah menengah ekonomi atas
- sekolah menengah industri kerajinan
- sekolah menengah industri pariwisata
- sekolah menengah karawitan
- sekolah menengah kejuruan
- sekolah menengah kesejateraan keluarga
- sekolah menengah musik
- sekolah menengah pekerjaan sosial
- sekolah menengah pertama
- sekolah menengah seni rupa
- sekolah menengah teknologi
- sekolah menengah tinggi
- sekolah menengah umum
- sekolah menengah umum atas
Further reading
- “sekolah menengah” 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.
Malay
Etymology
Compound of sekolah (“school”) + menengah (“middle”), calque of Dutch middelbare school (“high school”, literally “middle school”).
Noun
sekolah menengah (plural sekolah-sekolah menengah, informal 1st possessive sekolah menengahku, 2nd possessive sekolah menengahmu, 3rd possessive sekolah menengahnya)
- (education) high school (US), secondary school (UK).
- Hypernym: sekolah
Descendants
- Indonesian: sekolah menengah
See also
- sekolah rendah (“primary school (UK), elementary school (US)”)
Further reading
- “sekolah menengah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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