keberatan
Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed ke- + berat (“heavy; hard, difficult”) + -an, calque of Dutch bezwaar (“objection”, literally “difficulty, obstacle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəbəˈratan/
- Hyphenation: kê‧bê‧rat‧an
- Rhymes: -an, -n
Noun
kêbêratan (plural keberatan-keberatan, first-person possessive keberatanku, second-person possessive keberatanmu, third-person possessive keberatannya)
- objection
- weight, heaviness
Adjective
kêbêratan
- overloaded
- unwilling, reluctant
Verb
kêbêratan
- (colloquial) to object, to disagree with or to oppose
- Synonyms: berkeberatan, tidak setuju
Further reading
- “keberatan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.