rumah sakit

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• rumkit (acronym)
• RS (abbreviation)
• roemah sakit (1901–1947)

Etymology

Compound of rumah (“house”) +‎ sakit (“sick”), inherited from Malay rumah sakit, calque of Dutch ziekenhuis (“hospital”, literally “sick house”). Displaced Dutch loanword hospitaal as was frequently used in Batavian newspapers in the 1920s.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˌrumah ˈsakit/ [ˌru.mah ˈsa.kɪt̪̚]

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• Syllabification: ru‧mah sa‧kit

Noun

rumah sakit (plural rumah-rumah sakit)

1. (healthcare) hospital (medical care facility)

   Synonym: hospital (Malay)

Affixed terms

• dirumahsakitkan
• merumahsakitkan
• perumahsakitan
• rumahsakitkan

Compounds

• rumah sakit apung
• rumah sakit bersalin
• rumah sakit ibu dan anak
• rumah sakit jiwa
• rumah sakit kanker
• rumah sakit kapal
• rumah sakit ketergantungan obat
• rumah sakit khusus
• rumah sakit lapangan
• rumah sakit mata
• rumah sakit militer
• rumah sakit pendidikan
• rumah sakit rujukan
• rumah sakit terbang
• rumah sakit umum

Descendants

• → Tausug: bāy sakit (calque)
• → Tetum: uma-moras (calque)

Further reading

• “rumah sakit”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Etymology

Compound of rumah (“house”) +‎ sakit (“sick, pain”); calque of Dutch ziekenhuis (“hospital”, literally “sick house”). Its use within Malaysia was diminished by the 1960s during Konfrontasi, having largely been replaced by hospital.

Pronunciation

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˌrumah ˈsaket/ [ˌru.mah ˈsa.ket̪̚]
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˌrumah ˈsakit/ [ˌru.mah ˈsa.kit̪̚]
• Rhymes: -aket, -ket, -et

Noun

rumah sakit (Jawi spelling رومه ساکيت, plural rumah-rumah sakit or rumah² sakit)

1. (now chiefly Indonesia) hospital (building)

   Synonym: (Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) hospital

Further reading

• "rumah sakit" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “rumah”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 354