negara kota
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Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compound of negara (“state”) + kota (“city”), calque of Dutch stadstaat (“city state”).
Noun[edit]
negara kota (first-person possessive negara kotaku, second-person possessive negara kotamu, third-person possessive negara kotanya)
- (government) city state, a sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.
Further reading[edit]
- “negara kota” 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.