buat

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• bowat

NounEdit

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

AnagramsEdit

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

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MalayEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

Alternative formsEdit

• boat (1701 by Thomas Bowrey)

PronunciationEdit

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

VerbEdit

buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)

1. to do (perform, execute)

Derived termsEdit

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-)