minum

See also: mínum 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• mu'min, nummi

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Indonesian

Etymology

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

Verb

minum

1. to drink

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Kapampangan

Etymology

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

Verb

minum

1. to drink

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Malay

Etymology

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. From Proto-Malayic *inum (compare Indonesian minum), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum (compare Cebuano inom, Hawaiian inu, Tagalog inom).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

minum (used in the form meminum)

1. to drink (consume liquid through the mouth)

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

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-)

See also

• 飲む

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Old English

Pronoun

mīnum

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

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Rejang

Romanization

minum

1. Romanization of ꤸꥇꤵꥈꤸ꥓