buat
English
Alternative forms
Noun
buat (plural buats)
- (Scotland) A lantern.
- (Scotland) The moon.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
Malay
Alternative forms
- boat (1701 by Thomas Bowrey)
Etymology
First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683AD. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayic *buat, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Pronunciation
Verb
buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)
- to do (perform, execute)
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-)