minum

See also: mínum, mīnum, and -minum

English

Etymology

See minion.

Noun

minum (plural minums)

1. (printing, obsolete) A small kind of printing type; minion.
2. (music, obsolete) A minim.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “minum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• immun., mu'min, nummi

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay minum, from Proto-Malayic *inum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum. The appearance of the consonant /m/ at the beginning of a word is probably caused by the influence of the Old Javanese infix -um-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.nʊm/

• (file)

• Hyphenation: mi‧num

Verb

minum (active meminum, passive diminum, involuntary/perfective passive terminum)

1. (transitive) to drink

Derived terms

• minuman
• minumi
• minumkan
• peminum
• terminum

 

Further reading

• “minum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Kapampangan

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay minum, Proto-Malayic *inum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum (compare Cebuano inom, Hawaiian inu, Tagalog inom).

Verb

minum

1. to drink

Maguindanao

Verb

minum

1. to drink

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *inum (compare Indonesian minum), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum (compare Cebuano inom, Hawaiian inu, Tagalog inom).

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (minuṃ) in the form [script needed] (niminuṃña) (current spelling diminumnya).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /minom/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /minʊm/
• Rhymes: -num, -um, -nom, -om

Verb

minum (used in the form meminum)

1. to drink (consume liquid through the mouth)

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• peminum [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• minuman [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
• minum-minum [reduplication] (redup)
• perminum [causative passive] (peR-)
• minumkan [causative benefactive] (-kan)
• minumi [causative (locative) benefactive] (-i)
• meminum [agent focus] (meN-)
• diminum [patient focus] (di-)
• terminum [agentless action] (teR-)
• berminum [stative / habitual] (beR-)

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.num/

Determiner

mīnum

1. inflection of mīn:
   1. masculine/neuter dative singular
   2. masculine/feminine/neuter dative plural

Rejang

Romanization

minum

1. Romanization of ꤸꥇꤵꥈꤸ꥓

Simalungun Batak

Verb

minum

1. active of inum (“to drink”)

Toba Batak

Verb

minum

1. active of inum (“to drink”)