angkatan

Reconstructed as angkat +‎ -an, from Malay angkatan (“military expedition, parade”), from Classical Malay اڠكتن‎ (angkatan).

• The sense of generation is a semantic loan from Dutch generatie from Komisi Bahasa (1944).

• IPA^(key): /aŋˈkatan/
• Hyphenation: ang‧kat‧an
• Rhymes: -an, -n

angkatan (first-person possessive angkatanku, second-person possessive angkatanmu, third-person possessive angkatannya)

1. lift, a rise; a degree of elevation.
2. force, a group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
3. generation, 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.

   Synonyms: generasi, turunan

4. class: a group of students who commenced their education during a particular year.

• “angkatan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
• Morel, Casparus Johannus (1875), “angkatan”, in Nieuw Laagmaleisch-Nederlandsch woordenbooekje: bevattende de meest in gebruik zijnde woorden en spraakwendingen, ten dienste van hen, die zich op de beoefening van het Laagmaleisch, en der Maleisch-sprekenden, die zich op het Nederlandsch willen toeleggen, H. M. van Dorp