fakultas

fakultas

Indonesian

Etymology

• Learned borrowing from Latin facultas.[1] Doublet of fasilitas.
• Displaced, since 1954, earlier loanword fakulteit, fakultet and fakultit, from Dutch faculteit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faˈkʊltas]
• Hyphenation: fa‧kul‧tas

Noun

fakultas (plural fakultas-fakultas, first-person possessive fakultasku, second-person possessive fakultasmu, third-person possessive fakultasnya)

1. (education) faculty, division of a university.

Alternative forms

• fakulti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Descendants

• → Tetum: fakultas

References

1. “Some Problems Arising from Linguistic Eleutheromania”, in The Journal of Asian Studies‎, volume 17, issue 2, 1958, DOI:10.2307/2941467, page 207-214

Further reading

• “fakultas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.