rumah tangga

Indonesian

Alternative forms

  • rumahtangga (Standard Malay)

Etymology

Compound of rumah (“house”) +‎ tangga (“ladder, stair”), literally “laddered/staired house”.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˌrumah ˈtaŋɡa/ [ˌru.mah ˈt̪aŋ.ɡa]
  • Syllabification: ru‧mah tang‧ga

Noun

rumah tangga

  1. household (collectively, all the persons who live in a given house)
  2. household (entirety of work and management required to sustain the household)

Adjective

rumah tangga

  1. household (bolonging to the same house and family)
  2. household (found in or having its origin in a home)

Compounds

Further reading

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