angkatan
Indonesian
Etymology
Reconstructed as angkat + -an, from Malay angkatan (“military expedition, parade”), from Classical Malay اڠكتن (angkatan).
- The sense of generation is a semantic loan from Dutch generatie from Komisi Bahasa (1944).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aŋˈkatan/
- Hyphenation: ang‧kat‧an
- Rhymes: -an, -n
Noun
angkatan (first-person possessive angkatanku, second-person possessive angkatanmu, third-person possessive angkatannya)
- lift, a rise; a degree of elevation.
- force, a group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
- generation, a single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- Synonyms: generasi, turunan
Compounds
- angkatan darat
- angkatan kerja
- angkatan laut
- angkatan muda
- angkatan negara
- angkatan perang
- angkatan udara
Further reading
- “angkatan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
- Morel, Casparus Johannus (1875), “angkatan”, in Nieuw Laagmaleisch-Nederlandsch woordenbooekje: bevattende de meest in gebruik zijnde woorden en spraakwendingen, ten dienste van hen, die zich op de beoefening van het Laagmaleisch, en der Maleisch-sprekenden, die zich op het Nederlandsch willen toeleggen, H. M. van Dorp