lingkungan

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed lingkung +‎ -an, inherited from Malay lingkungan, from Classical Malay lingkungan (“area”).

  • The sense “environment” is a semantic loan from Dutch omgeving.
  • The sense “circle, group” is a semantic loan from Dutch kring. Compare to loanword as Indonesian kring (“subdivision of a parish”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lɪŋˈkʊŋan]
  • Hyphenation: ling‧kung‧an
  • Rhymes: -an, -n

Noun

lingkungan (plural lingkungan-lingkungan, first-person possessive lingkunganku, second-person possessive lingkunganmu, third-person possessive lingkungannya)

  1. environment,
    1. the surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
    2. the natural world or ecosystem.
    3. all the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
    4. (computing) the software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
  2. area, a particular geographic region.
  3. circle, group.
    Synonyms: golongan, kalangan
  4. (Catholicism) subdivision of a parish.
    Synonym: kring
  5. (sociology) short for lingkungan tetangga (“neighbourhood”).
    Synonym: kejiranan (Standard Malay)

Synonyms

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

Affixed lingkung +‎ -an.

Noun

lingkungan (plural lingkungan-lingkungan, informal 1st possessive lingkunganku, 2nd possessive lingkunganmu, 3rd possessive lingkungannya)

  1. sphere
  2. limit
  3. area
  4. radius
  5. region
  6. spectrum
  7. enclosure

Descendants

  • Indonesian: lingkungan

Further reading

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