perbekel

Compare to Javanese ꦧꦼꦏꦼꦭ꧀ (bekel, “low-ranking official”), Old Javanese bĕkĕl (“head, leader, officer”), probably came from Old Javanese bakal (“prospective, future”).

• IPA^(key): [pərbəˈkəl]
• Hyphenation: pêr‧bê‧kêl

pêrbêkêl (first-person possessive perbekelku, second-person possessive perbekelmu, third-person possessive perbekelnya)

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

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