praja

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦥꦿꦗ (praja, “kingdom, realm; court; capital city”), from Old Javanese prajā (“all subjects, country, realms”), from Sanskrit प्रजा (prajā, “subject of a king, rule”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈprad͡ʒa/ [ˈpra.d͡ʒa]
• Rhymes: -ad͡ʒa
• Syllabification: pra‧ja

Noun

praja (plural praja-praja)

1. nation

   Synonym: negeri

2. city

   Synonym: kota

3. (historical) administration
4. (colloquial) civil servant, pamong praja
5. (colloquial) the candidate of pamong praja, who are educated by Ministry of Home Affairs (Indonesia)
6. (Roman Catholicism) secular clergyman

   Synonyms: imam diosesan, imam sekular, presbiter, wereldheer

Derived terms

• kota praja
• pamong praja
• swapraja

Further reading

• “praja”, 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

Javanese

Romanization

praja

1. romanization of ꦥꦿꦗ

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• pragia (aulic)
• pilaja (Gallo-Italic of Sicily, Ferla~Sortino)
• spraja
• playa (non-orthographic, Spanish borrowing)

Etymology

From an earlier *pragia, from Late Latin plagia, from Latin plaga (“tract, region”).

Cognate with Corsican piaghja, Galician and Portuguese praia Spanish playa, Catalan platja, Occitan plaja, French plage, Neapolitan chiaja and Italian piaggia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾa.ja/, [ˈpɾa.ja]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: prà‧ja

Noun

praja f (plural praji)

1. (beach, chiefly) plain riverbank, shore
2. (Hyblaean dialects, by extension) One of many small river lakes or ponds, naturally or artificially made, in Pantalica.

   Synonym: gurna

Derived terms

• prajisi

See also

• ciumi
• mari
• natari
• poju
• pràstica
• Pràzitu
• rina
• serra
• timpa
• Vrasi