Where does “pegawai pemerintah” come from?

pegawai pemerintah (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian pemerintah, from Malay pemerintah, from Classical Malay pemerintah — government.

pegawai pemerintah (Indonesian): government employee

Definitions

  1. government employee

Ancestry of “pegawai pemerintah”, step by step

pegawai pemerintah traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian pemerintah

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianpemerintahgovernment
2Malaypemerintahgovernment
3Classical Malaypemerintahgovernment

via Indonesian pegawai

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianpegawaiemployee
2Malaypegawaiofficer; official
3Malaype-Alternative form of peng-

Words derived from “pegawai pemerintah

Every word from Classical Malay pemerintah