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Borrowed from Indonesian kerja.

kerja

  1. to work

kerja

  1. indefinite genitive plural of ker

From Malay kerja, from Sanskrit कार्य (kārya). Doublet of karya.

kêrja (first-person possessive kerjaku, second-person possessive kerjamu, third-person possessive kerjanya)

  1. work:
    1. labour, occupation, job.
      Synonym: pekerjaan
    2. (physics) a measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance.
      Synonym: usaha
    3. (physics, more generally) a measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
      Synonym: usaha
  2. action: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
    Synonym: aksi

kêrja

  1. (colloquial) to work
    Synonym: bekerja
Conjugation of kerja (ber-, intransitive)
Root kerja
Active Involuntary Passive Basic /
Imperative 		Jussive
Active bekerja kerja kerjalah
Locative mengerjai tekerjai dikerjai kerjai kerjailah
Causative / Applicative1 mengerjakan tekerjakan dikerjakan kerjakan kerjakanlah
Causative
Locative
Causative / Applicative1 mempekerjakan teperkerjakan dipekerjakan pekerjakan pekerjakanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

kerja

  1. Romanization of ꦏꦼꦂꦗ

From Sanskrit कार्य (kārya), doublet of karya. Displaced gawai.

  • IPA(key): [kə(r).d͡ʒa]
    • (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): [kə(r).d͡ʒə]
  • Rhymes: -d͡ʒa, -a
  • Hyphenation: ker‧ja

kerja (Jawi spelling کرجا, plural kerja-kerja, informal 1st possessive kerjaku, 2nd possessive kerjamu, 3rd possessive kerjanya)

  1. work; occupation
  2. job; task
    Synonym: tugasan

kerja (Jawi spelling کرجا)

  1. to work

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

  • pekerja (“worker”) [passive / name of profession] (pe-)
  • pekerjaan (“occupation”) [passive / name of profession + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (pe- + -an)
  • pengerjaan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
  • kerjaan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
  • mengerjakan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
  • dikerjakan [patient focus + causative benefactive] (di- + -kan)
  • memperkerjakan [causative agent focus + causative benefactive] (mempeR- + -kan)
  • diperkerjakan [causative passive focus + causative benefactive] (dipeR- + -kan)

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

  • Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “کرج kĕrdja”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 80
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “کرج kĕrja”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 511
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “kĕrja”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 441