sekolah menengah umum
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of sekolah menengah (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) + umum (“general”), from
- Calque of Dutch algemene middelbare school of algemene (“common, general”) + middelbare (“secondary”) + school.
- Compare to Chinese 普通高中.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sə.ko.lah mə.nə.ŋah u.mʊm/
- Hyphenation: sê‧ko‧lah, mê‧nê‧ngah, u‧mum
Noun
sekolah menengah umum
- (education, historical) senior high school (US), upper secondary school (UK), abbreviated SMU.
Synonyms
- sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas (dated)
- sekolah menengah tinggi (dated)
- sekolah menengah atas
- sekolah menengah umum atas (dated)
Further reading
- “sekolah menengah umum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.