Fromraja +ke- -an. Either cognate with or derived fromMalaykerajaan.
kerajaan
- government of a country or state
Affixedraja +ke- -an, fromMalaykerajaan, fromClassical Malaykerajaan(“royal, become king”).
kêrajaan (pluralkerajaan-kerajaan)
- kingdom
- arealm having aking and/orqueen as its actual or nominalsovereign
- Synonym:keajian
- soepaja kekalkeradjaän Nederland[1] ―so that thekingdom of the Netherlands remains eternal.
- (taxonomy) arank in the classification oforganisms, belowdomain and abovephylum; a taxon at that rank
- Synonym:alam(Standard Malay)
- monarchy: a government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler)
- Synonyms:monarki,keberajaan
- (obsolete)kingship
kêrajaan (comparativelebih kerajaan,superlativepaling kerajaan)
- royal: of or relating to a monarch or their family
- Synonym:diraja(Standard Malay)
kêrajaan
- (obsolete) tobecome aking
- Jika iakerajaan, tiada akan sempurna negeri ini. ―If hebecomes a king, this nation will never be perfect.
The word is part offalse friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due toshared etymology. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen inMalaykerajaan.
- ^Soewardi Soerjaningrat (1915),Djika saja Nederlander.. [If[I am a] Netherlander] (in Malay), Bandung: Kaoem Muda, page 4
Affixation ofraja +ke- -an.
kerajaan (Jawi spellingکراجاءن,pluralkerajaan-kerajaanorkerajaan2)
- (Brunei, Malaysia)government (an organisation which has the power to enact and legislate laws within its area of jurisdiction)
- Synonym:pemerintah
- kingdom
- Kerajaan Eswatini ―Kingdom of Eswatini
This word is part offalse friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due toshared etymology. The Indonesian usage can be seen inIndonesiankerajaan.
- The government sense prevails in Malaysia and Brunei due to the two countries' monarchic governments, even if the government referred by the term is a republic.
- In Singapore, foreign governments can be referred as eitherkerajaan orpemerintah depending on their form of government. The Singaporean government being a republic is always referred to aspemerintah, which has no monarchic connotations.
- In Indonesia,kerajaan is used in the sense of akingdom only. Governments are always translated aspemerintah, which has no monarchic connotations.
