mak

Clipping of English Makasar.

mak

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Makasar.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Makasar terms

• myek (Geordie)
• make (Standard English)

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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mak (third-person singular simple present maks, present participle makkin or makin, simple past and past participle makked or made)

1. (Wearside, Durham, dialectal) Alternative form of make.

• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “mak”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

• mak nyah

• AMK, KAM, KMA, kam

Suggested by Pinnow to derive from an earlier form um-dak, where the second element is cognate to Mundari दाः (dāḥ). The first element may be cognate to U ʔóm and/or Khasi um.

mak

1. water (salt or fresh)
2. stream

• George Whitehead, Dictionary of the Car-Nicobarese Language (1925)
• Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80: In Car-Nicobarese mak. Central Nic. dak, Chowra rak, 'water', […]
• Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow, The Position of the Munda Languages within the Austroasiatic Language Family (1963), page 149

• IPA^(key): /mɑk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑk

From Middle Dutch gemac (“tame, manageable”); see gemak (“comfort, ease”).

mak (comparative makker, superlative makst)

1. tame (domesticated, tamed)
2. calm, tame (in a calm state of mind. not agitated)

• Afrikaans: mak

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mak

1. inflection of makken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• kam

Clipping of mamak.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaʔ]
• Hyphenation: pak

mak (plural mak-mak)

1. mother

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: mak

mak

1. poppy

• “mak”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “mak”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

From Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

• IPA^(key): /mak/

mak m inan

1. poppy (any plant of the genus Papaver)
2. poppyseed

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “mak”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “mak”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Shortened form of emak, from Proto-Malayic *əma-ʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əma-ʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əma-ʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əma-ʔ, from *əma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmak/ [ˈmaʔ]
• Rhymes: -maʔ, -aʔ

mak (Jawi spelling مق, plural mak-mak)

1. alternative form of emak

mak

1. alternative form of make (“equal, partner”)

mak

1. alternative form of make (“build”)

mak

1. alternative form of maken

mak

1. kiss

From Proto-Iranian *máHtā (compare Persian مادر (mâdar), Baluchi مات (mát), Pashto مور (mor), Ossetian мад (mad), Avestan 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (mātar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHtā (compare Sanskrit मातृ (mā́tṛ), Hindi माता (mātā)), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (compare Armenian մայր (mayr), Greek μητέρα (mitéra), Russian мать (matʹ), Italian madre, English mother).

mak f

1. mother (only in reference to animals)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmak/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: mak
• Homophones: mag, Mak

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

mak m inan (diminutive maczek)

1. poppy (any plant of the genus Papaver)

Clipping of McDonald's.

mak m animal

1. (slang) McDonald's restaurant, Mickey D's

   Niedawno otworzyli maka koło mnie. ― They recently opened a McDonald's near me.

2. (slang, by extension) food from McDonald's

• mak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Middle English maken, from Old English macian.

mak (third-person singular simple present maks, present participle makkin, simple past made or makkit, past participle made or makkit)

1. to make

   Mony fowk drink tae mak thaimselves feel blithe. ― Many people drink to make themselves feel happy.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

• IPA^(key): /mâk/

mȁk m inan (Cyrillic spelling ма̏к)

1. poppy

• makòvnjača

• “mak”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

• IPA^(key): [mak]

mak m inan (relational adjective makový or (rare) mačný or (rare) máčny, diminutive máčik or (rare) mačíček)

1. poppy

• “mak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

• IPA^(key): /mák/, /máːk/

mȁk or mȃk m inan

1. poppy

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	màk
gen. sing.	máka
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	màk	máka	máki
genitive (rodȋlnik)	máka	mákov	mákov
dative (dajȃlnik)	máku	mákoma	mákom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	màk	máka	máke
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	máku	mákih	mákih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	mákom	mákoma	máki

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	mák
gen. sing.	máka
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	mák	máka	máki
genitive (rodȋlnik)	máka	mákov	mákov
dative (dajȃlnik)	máku	mákoma	mákom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	mák	máka	máke
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	máku	mákih	mákih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	mákom	mákoma	máki

• “mak”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “mak”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

From Old Swedish mak, assumed to originate from an unattested Old Swedish adjective *maker (“easy, calm, fit, suiting, appropriate”), from Old Norse makr (“easy to deal with”).

mak n

1. a state of leisure; almost exclusively used in the expression:

   i sakta mak ― slowly, without hurry

• Nowadays never inflected, but historically with the definite form maket.

• mak in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mak in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• mak in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• kam

Borrowed from German Mark.

mak

1. (obsolete) shilling

From English mark.

mak

1. sign, brand, mark, symbol

mak

1. to mark

mak

1. obedient
2. tame

Inflection of mak
uninflected	mak
inflected	makke
comparative	makker
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		mak	makker	it makst it makste
indefinite	c. sing.	makke	makkere	makste
	n. sing.	mak	makker	makste
	plural	makke	makkere	makste
definite		makke	makkere	makste
partitive		maks	makkers	—

• “mak”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Borrowed from Tibetan དམག (dmag).

• IPA^(key): [mɐx]

mak

1. soldier

   gu mak dang-lio-de re.

   He has [certainly] been a soldier.

   (Quoted in Janhunen et al., p. 94)

• Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /maːk˧˥/
• Tone numbers: mak⁷
• Hyphenation: mak

From Proto-Tai *ʰmaːkᴰ (“fruit”). Cognate with Thai หมาก (màak), Lao ໝາກ (māk), Lü ᦖᦱᧅ (ṁaak), Shan မၢၵ်ႇ (màak).

mak (Sawndip forms 𭽝 or 𰙁 or 漠 or ⿰木没 or 模 or 莫 or ⿱艹墨, 1957–1982 spelling mak)

1. fruit; nut

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mak (1957–1982 spelling mak)

1. kidney

   Synonyms: (dialectal) samndaen, (dialectal) iucij

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mak (1957–1982 spelling mak)

1. smallpox
2. cowpox
3. smallpox vaccine