tuan rumah
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
tuan (“lord, master”) + rumah (“house”), from Malay toean rumah (“house owner”). The sense “host” is a semantic loan from English host.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tuan rumah (first-person possessive tuan rumahku, second-person possessive tuan rumahmu, third-person possessive tuan rumahnya)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tuan rumah” 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.