buat

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuːət/

Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

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.

Usage notes

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.

Derived terms

  • berbuat (“to do, make”)
  • buat-buat (“to make up, lie”)
  • buat-buatan (“fake, made-up”)
  • buatan (“creation; own; artificial, synthetic”)
  • (ditransitive) buatkan (“to make [for]”)
  • pembuat (“maker”)
  • pembuatan (“making, the act of making”)
  • perbuat (“to do, make”)
  • perbuatan (“action”)
  • teperbuat (“to be done, made”)
  • (intransitive) terbuat (“to be made [of]”)
  • buat cendol
  • buat gawe

Preposition

buat

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

Conjunction

buat

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

References

Malay

Alternative forms

  • boat (1701 by Thomas Bowrey)
  • boeat (Van Ophuijsen)
  • buwat (Wilkinson)

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /buat/
  • Rhymes: -uat, -wat, -at
  • Audio (Malaysia):(file)

Verb

buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)

  1. to do (perform, execute)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

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

  • Indonesian: buat

Further reading

Simalungun Batak

Noun

buat

  1. use

References

Tenggarong Kutai Malay

Etymology

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

Verb

buat

  1. to insert

Tetum

Noun

buat

  1. thing

Toba Batak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

Verb

buat (active mambuat)

  1. to take

References

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