angkatan
Pronunciation: /aŋˈkatan/
“angkatan” is an Indonesian word. Its 15 meanings in English:
noun
- lift, a rise; a degree of elevation
- force, a group that aims to attack, control, or constrain
- 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
- a group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- descendants, progeny
- batch, generation, wave
- cohort, school class: a group of students who commenced their education during a particular year
- synonym of jabatan (“function, position, post; office”)
- descendant (one who is the progeny of someone)
- someone who likes to be lifted up (praised)
- something complete
- synonym of pengangkatan
- synonym of keangkatan
- a tool made of woven rattan, used to carry sand mixed with soil or stones in the mining area
Etymology
Reconstructed as angkat (“to lift”) + -an, from Malay angkatan (“military expedition, parade”, literally “lift”), from Classical Malay اڠكتن (angkatan). * The sense of generation is a semantic loan from Dutch generatie from Komisi Bahasa (1944). * The sense of force is a semantic loan from Dutch lichting (“conscription, draft”, literally “lifting”).
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “angkatan” there
More Indonesian words
- angkat
- angkat kepala
- angkat meja
- angkat tangan
- angkatan bersenjata
- angkatan darat
- angkatan enam puluh enam
- angkatan kelima
About this dictionary
The Indonesian dictionary on Glottosphere has 29,707 entries with a page. Browse the Indonesian dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.