amaun

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English amount, from Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a.mau̯n], [a.ma.on]
• Rhymes: -au̯n, -un
• Hyphenation: a‧ma‧un

Noun

amaun (Jawi spelling اماءون, plural amaun-amaun, informal 1st possessive amaunku, 2nd possessive amaunmu, 3rd possessive amaunnya)

1. A quantity of something; an amount.

   Synonym: jumlah

   amaun bahan ― amount of material

Further reading

• “amaun” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.