rumah panjang
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of rumah (“house”) + panjang (“long”), from Malay rumah panjang.
Noun edit
rumah panjang (first-person possessive rumah panjangku, second-person possessive rumah panjangmu, third-person possessive rumah panjangnya)
- longhouse (especially that of the traditional ethnic groups of Borneo)
- (uncommon) brothel
- Synonyms: bordil, rumah kuning, rumah pelacuran
Further reading edit
- “rumah panjang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
rumah (“house”) + panjang (“long”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rumah panjang (Jawi spelling رومه ڤنجڠ, plural rumah-rumah panjang, informal 1st possessive rumah panjangku, 2nd possessive rumah panjangmu, 3rd possessive rumah panjangnya)
- longhouse (especially that of the traditional ethnic groups of Borneo)
- (uncommon) brothel
- Synonym: rumah pelacuran
Descendants edit
- Indonesian: rumah panjang
See also edit
- tuai rumah (“leader of a longhouse”)
Further reading edit
- “rumah panjang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- "rumah panjang" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.