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English
Etymology
From house + work. Cognate with Dutch huiswerk (“homework”).
Noun
housework (uncountable)
- Domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking.
2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 228:In the preindustrial era the burden of housework fell on the shoulders of every inhabitant of the house: men, women, and children all devoted their energies and time to work in the home and on the farms, because most Americans were involved with at least some of their own food production.
- (uncommon) Homework.
Translations
domestic household chores
- Arabic: أَعْمَال اَلْمَنْزِل m pl (ʔaʕmāl al-manzil)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 家務/家务 (gaa1 mou6)
- Mandarin: 家務/家务 (zh) (jiāwù), 家務勞動/家务劳动 (jiāwù láodòng), 家事 (zh) (jiāshì)
- Danish: husholdningsarbejde
- Dutch: huishouden (nl) n, huishoudelijk werk n
- Finnish: kotityöt (fi) pl, taloustyöt (fi) pl
- French: ménage (fr) m
- German: Hausarbeit (de) f
- Greek: οικιακά (el) n pl (oikiaká)
- Ido: menajo (io)
- Italian: faccende (it) f pl
- Japanese: 家事 (ja) (かじ, kaji)
- Korean: 가사(家事) (ko) (gasa)
- Kyrgyz: үй иши (üy işi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: husarbeid n
- Nynorsk: husarbeid n
- Portuguese: serviço doméstico m, tarefas domésticas f pl
- Russian: рабо́та по до́му f (rabóta po dómu), дома́шняя рабо́та (ru) f (domášnjaja rabóta)
- Scottish Gaelic: obair-taighe f
- Spanish: tareas domésticas f pl, quehaceres (es) m pl, faenas (es) f pl
- Swedish: hushållsarbete (sv) n
- Tagalog: gawaing-bahay
- Thai: งานบ้าน (ngaan bâan)
- Ukrainian: робо́та по до́му (robóta po dómu), прибира́ння (uk) (prybyránnja)
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