buat

English

Alternative forms

• bowat

Noun

buat (plural buats)

1. (Scotland) A lantern.
2. (Scotland) The moon.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Batu, Taub, Tuba, abut, batu, buta, tabu, tuba

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Malay

Alternative forms

• boat (1701 by Thomas Bowrey)

Etymology

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683AD. From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buat/
• Rhymes: -uat, -wat, -at

Verb

buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)

1. to do (perform, execute)

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular 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-)