sekolah lanjutan tingkat pertama
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of sekolah lanjutan (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) + tingkat (“grade”) + pertama (“first”) from either
- Calque from Japanese 初等 (shotō, “beginner, primary”) + 中学校 (chūgakkō, “secondary (middle) school”). The post-war Japanese term is 中学校 (chūgakkō), or
- Calque from Chinese 初級中學／初级中学 (chūjí zhōngxué, “junior middle school”).
Noun
[edit]sekolah lanjutan tingkat pertama
- (education, dated) junior high school (US), lower secondary school (UK).
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sekolah lanjutan tingkat pertama” 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.