fakultas
Indonesian
Etymology
- Learned borrowing from Latin facultās.[1] Doublet of fasilitas.
- Displaced, since 1954, earlier loanword fakulteit, fakultet and fakultit, from Dutch faculteit.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /faˈkultas/ [faˈkul.t̪as]
- Rhymes: -ultas
- Syllabification: fa‧kul‧tas
Noun
fakultas (plural fakultas-fakultas)
Alternative forms
- fakulti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
- faculteit (1901–1947)
- fakulteit, fakultet, fakultit (1947–1972)
Derived terms
- kefakultasan
- sefakultas
Descendants
- → Tetum: fakultas
References
Further reading
- “fakultas”, 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