buat

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• boeat (1901–1947)

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbuat/ [ˈbu.at̪̚]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: bu‧at

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

• “buat”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

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Verb

buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)

1. to make; to create

   Dia buat kuih untuk ibunya. ― She made cakes for her mother.

2. to do (perform, execute, carry out)

   Apa yang kamu sedang buat? ― What are you doing?

3. to act as; to pretend.

   Dia buat tidak tahu sahaja. ― He pretended not to know.

4. to build; to construct.

   Mereka sedang buat rumah baharu. ― They are building a new house.

Synonyms

• (Singapore) bikin

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

• "buat" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Scots

Alternative forms

• bowat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːət/

Noun

buat (plural buats)

1. A lantern.
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     he muttered a Gaelic curse upon the unseasonable splendour of Mac-Farlane' s buat

2. The moon.

References

• “buat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Simalungun Batak

Noun

buat

1. use

References

• Zufri Hidayat et al. (2015). Kamus Bahasa Simalungun–Indonesia (2nd ed.). Medan: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara, p. 2.

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.