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buat

English

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Noun

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buat (plural buats)

  1. (Scotland) A lantern.
  2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Alternative forms

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  • boeat (van Ophuijsen (1901–1947))

Etymology

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From Malay buat, from Classical Malay بوات (buat), from Old Malay vuat, from Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbuat̚]
  • Hyphenation: bu‧at

Verb

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buat

  1. to make, to do

Usage notes

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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

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  • bikin (nonstandard Indonesian)

Derived terms

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Preposition

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buat

  1. for

Conjunction

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buat

  1. in order to, in order that

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Malay

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)

  1. to do (perform, execute)

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Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

Descendants

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  • Indonesian: buat

Further reading

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Tenggarong Kutai Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

Verb

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buat

  1. to insert

Tetum

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Noun

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buat

  1. thing

Toba Batak

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

Verb

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buat (active mambuat)

  1. to take

References

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  • Warneck, J. (1906). Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, p. 38.
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