tuan rumah

Indonesian

Etymology

tuan (“lord, master”) +‎ rumah (“house”), from Malay toean rumah (“house owner”). The sense “host” is a semantic loan from English host.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtwan ˈrumah/, [ˈt̪wan ˈru.mah]

Noun

tuan rumah (first-person possessive tuan rumahku, second-person possessive tuan rumahmu, third-person possessive tuan rumahnya)

house owner
host
1. One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
  Tuan rumah yang baik akan selalu menjamu tamu-tamunya.
  A good host will always serve his/her guests.
2. One that provides a facility for an event.
3. A person or organization responsible for running an event
native population or inhabitant

Derived terms

menuanrumahi

Further reading

“tuan rumah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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