kesehatan

Indonesian

Etymology

sehat (“healthy”) +‎ ke- -an, from Malay kesihatan. The sense “a state of balance” is a semantic loan from English health.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kəsɛˈhatan]
Hyphenation: ke‧se‧hat‧an

Noun

kêsèhatan (first-person possessive kesehatanku, second-person possessive kesehatanmu, third-person possessive kesehatannya)

health
1. The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
2. A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
  Kesehatan finansial.
  Financial health.

Further reading

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

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