buat
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buat (plural buats)
- (Scotland) A lantern.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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Indonesian edit
Alternative forms edit
- boeat (van Ophuijsen (1901–1947))
Etymology edit
From Malay buat, from Classical Malay بوات (buat), from Old Malay vuat, from Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
buat
Usage notes edit
This 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 active 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.
Synonyms edit
- bikin (nonstandard Indonesian)
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Preposition edit
buat
Conjunction edit
buat
- in order to, in order that
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 Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From 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).
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buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)
- to do (perform, execute)
Synonyms edit
- (Singapore) bikin
Derived terms edit
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-)
Descendants edit
- Indonesian: buat
Further reading edit
- “buat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Tenggarong Kutai Malay edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Verb edit
buat
- to insert
Tetum edit
Noun edit
buat
Toba Batak edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Verb edit
buat (active mambuat)
- to take
References edit
- Warneck, J. (1906). Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, p. 38.