jurusan
Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed jurus + -an, from Malay jurusan.
- Semantic loan from Dutch richting (“major, specialisation, subject, course”, literally “direction”) for the senses in education.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d͡ʒuˈrʊsan]
- Rhymes: -san, -an, -n
- Hyphenation: ju‧rus‧an
Noun
jurusan (plural jurusan-jurusan, first-person possessive jurusanku, second-person possessive jurusanmu, third-person possessive jurusannya)
- direction
- Synonyms: arah, tujuan
- (education) major: the principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- Synonym: program studi
- (education) subject cluster, subject stream, track: subject grouping at secondary education.
Further reading
- “jurusan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.