perbekel

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Balinese perbekel, prabekel (“village head”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pərbəˈkəl/ [pər.bəˈkəl]
• Rhymes: -əl
• Syllabification: per‧be‧kel

Noun

pêrbêkêl (plural perbekel-perbekel)

1. (archaic) employee of a village government
2. (archaic) head of a hamlet
3. (dialect, Bali) head of a village

Related terms

• bakal
• bekal
• bekel

Further reading

• “perbekel”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016