eselon

From Dutch echelon, from French échelon (“rung; echelon”), échelle, from Old French eschale, from Latin scāla. Doublet of skala.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ɛsəˈlon/ [ɛ.səˈlon]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: e‧se‧lon

èsêlon (plural eselon-eselon)

1. echelon,
   1. (management) a level or rank in an organization, profession, or society
   2. (military) a formation of troops, ships, etc., in diagonal parallel rows
2. (figurative, ironic) public servant with senior leadership/management rank

• es melon (ironic)

• “eselon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016