sekolah

• sek (abbreviation)

Inherited from Malay sekolah, from Portuguese escola. "H" is by analogy with rumah.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈkolah/ [səˈko.lah]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -olah
• Syllabification: se‧ko‧lah

sêkolah (plural sekolah-sekolah)

1. school
   1. (education) an institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

      Synonyms: madrasah, maktab, perguruan

   2. the time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution; school time
   3. an establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
   4. (rare) within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area

      Synonyms: departemen, fakultas, fakulti (Malay), pusat pengajian (Malay)

2. (rare) learning

   Synonym: pelajaran

• → Ternate: skola, sikola

sekolah

1. apheretic form of bersekolah
2. (figurative) to pawn surat keterangan in a bank for a loan

• “sekolah”, 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

sekolah

1. romanization of ꦱꦼꦏꦺꦴꦭꦃ

• sek (abbreviation)

Borrowed from Portuguese escola. "H" is by analogy with rumah.

• (Baku, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /səˈkolah/ [səˈko.lah]
  • Rhymes: -olah
• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /səˈkola(h)/ [səˈko.la(h)]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

  • Rhymes: -olah, -ola
• Hyphenation: se‧ko‧lah

sekolah (Jawi spelling سکوله, plural sekolah-sekolah or sekolah²)

1. school

   Sekolah saya berdekatan dengan sebuah pusat beli-belah.

   My school is near a shopping centre.

• > Indonesian: sekolah, sek (inherited)
  • → Ternate: skola, sikola
• → Iban: sekula

• maktab