rumah tangga

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

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

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)

rumah tangga

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

• “rumah tangga” 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.