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minum

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See also: mínum, mīnum, and -minum

English

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Etymology

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See minion.

Noun

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minum (plural minums)

  1. (printing, obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Malay minum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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minum (active meminum, passive diminum)

  1. to drink
  2. to take, consume (a medicine)
    Synonym: konsumsi
  3. (obsolete) to drink (to smoke, as tobacco)
    Synonym: isap

Noun

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minum (uncountable)

  1. drinking (the act of consuming a liquid)

Derived terms

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  • minum-minum (to drink repeatedly; to consume alcoholic beverages)
  • minuman (drink; beverage)
  • minumi (to give drink to)
  • peminum (drinker)
  • (of a liquid) terminum (drunk; to be accidentally drunk; drinkable)

See also

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References

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  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*inum”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

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Kapampangan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From clipping of um- +‎ inum.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɪˈnum/ [mɪˈnum]
  • Hyphenation: mi‧num

Verb

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minum

  1. to drink

Maguindanao

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Verb

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minum

  1. to drink

Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic *inum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum.

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (minuṃ) in the form [script needed] (niminuṃña) (current form diminumnya).

Pronunciation

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  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /ˈminom/ [ˈmi.nom]

Verb

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minum (Jawi spelling مينوم)

  1. to drink (to consume liquid through the mouth)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: minum

Further reading

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Old English

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Pronunciation

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Determiner

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mīnum

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

Rejang

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Verb

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minum (Rejang script ꤸꥇꤵꥈꤸ꥓)

  1. to drink

Simalungun Batak

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Verb

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minum

  1. active of inum (to drink)

Toba Batak

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Verb

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minum

  1. active of inum (to drink)