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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Inherited from Malay buat, from Classical Malay بوات (buat), from Old Malay [script needed] (vuat), from Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

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Verb

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buat (active membuat, passive dibuat)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) to make, cause
    Synonym: (informal) bikin
    Kuenya kemanisan, buat saya pusing.
    The cake is too sweet, it makes me dizzy.

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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 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.

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Preposition

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buat

  1. (colloquial) for
    Synonym: untuk
    Dia udah beli hape baru buat adek kita.
    He has bought a new cellphone for our little brother.

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buat

  1. (colloquial) so that, in order to, in order that
    Synonyms: agar, biar, supaya

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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).

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buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)

  1. to do (perform, execute)

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: buat

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Simalungun Batak

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Noun

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buat

  1. use

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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.