keratabasa

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦼꦫꦠꦧꦱ (keratabasa) (compare Old Javanese kṛta (“done, made”) +‎ bhāṣa (“speech”), Sanskrit कृत (kṛta) +‎ भाषा (bhāṣā)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kərataˈbasa/, [kə.ra.t̪aˈba.sa]

Noun

keratabasa (first-person possessive keratabasaku, second-person possessive keratabasamu, third-person possessive keratabasanya)

1. backronym

Further reading

• “keratabasa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.