lembaga

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay lembaga, from Classical Malay lembaga (“shape”), from Sanskrit [Term?]. Semantic loan from English embryo for “rudimentary plant” sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ləmˈbaɡa]
• Hyphenation: lêm‧ba‧ga

Noun

lêmbaga (first-person possessive lembagaku, second-person possessive lembagamu, third-person possessive lembaganya)

1. institution; institute

   Synonym: badan

2. embryo,
   1. the beginning; the first stage of anything.
   2. (botany) a rudimentary plant contained in the seed.

Affixed terms

• berlembaga
• kelembagaan
• melembaga
• melembagakan
• pelembagaan
• perlembagaan

 

Further reading

• “lembaga” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.