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”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpra.d͡ʒa]
• Hyphenation: pra‧ja

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, praja, presbiter, wereldheer

• “praja” 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.

praja

1. Romanization of ꦥꦿꦗ

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

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 and Italian piaggia.

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

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