buat
English
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editNoun
editbuat (plural buats)
- (Scotland) A lantern.
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- he muttered a Gaelic curse upon the unseasonable splendour of Mac-Farlane' s buat
- (Scotland) The moon.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “buat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editIndonesian
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editEtymology
editInherited from Malay buat, from Classical Malay بوات (buat), from Old Malay [script needed] (vuat), from Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈbuat/ [ˈbu.at̪̚]
- Rhymes: -at
- Syllabification: bu‧at
Verb
editbuat (active membuat, passive dibuat)
- (transitive) to make, create
- Synonym: (informal) bikin
- Saya sedang membuat ikan goreng.
- I'm making fried fish.
- Kesalahan itu sengaja dibuat olehnya.
- The mistake was intentionally made by him.
- (transitive) to make, cause
- Synonym: (informal) bikin
- Kuenya kemanisan, buat saya pusing.
- The cake is too sweet, it makes me dizzy.
Usage notes
editThis root usually has the meaning "to make", except in the stative and causative derivatives berbuat and perbuat, which has the meaning "to do". Otherwise, the meaning "to do" is supplied by laku. Similar phenomenon also occurred in the meng- form meninggal where it has the meaning "to die" instead of "to live" or "to be left", as other forms of the root tinggal do.
Derived terms
edit- berbuat (“to do, make”)
- buat-buat (“to make up, lie”)
- buat-buatan (“fake, made-up”)
- buatan (“creation; own; artificial, synthetic”)
- (ditransitive) buatkan (“to make [for]”)
- pembuat (“maker”)
- pembuatan (“making, the act of making”)
- perbuat (“to do, make”)
- perbuatan (“action”)
- teperbuat (“to be done, made”)
- (intransitive) terbuat (“to be made [of]”)
Preposition
editbuat
- (colloquial) for
- Synonym: untuk
- Dia udah beli hape baru buat adek kita.
- He has bought a new cellphone for our little brother.
Conjunction
editbuat
References
edit- “buat” 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.
Malay
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (vuat) in inflected form marvuat (current spelling berbuat).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editbuat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)
- to do (perform, execute)
Synonyms
edit- (Singapore) bikin
Derived terms
editRegular affixed derivations:
- pembuat [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
- buatan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
- buat-buat [reduplication] (redup)
- perbuat [causative passive] (peR-)
- buatkan [causative benefactive] (-kan)
- buati [causative (locative) benefactive] (-i)
- membuat [agent focus] (meN-)
- dibuat [patient focus] (di-)
- terbuat [agentless action] (teR-)
- berbuat [stative / habitual] (beR-)
Descendants
edit- Indonesian: buat
Further reading
edit- “buat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Simalungun Batak
editNoun
editbuat
References
edit- Zufri Hidayat et al. (2015). Kamus Bahasa Simalungun–Indonesia (2nd ed.). Medan: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara, p. 2.
Tenggarong Kutai Malay
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Verb
editbuat
- to insert
Tetum
editNoun
editbuat
Toba Batak
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Verb
editbuat (active mambuat)
- to take
References
edit- Warneck, J. (1906). Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, p. 38.
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