buat

• bowat

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːət/

buat (plural buats)

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

2. (Scotland) The moon.

• Ṭūbā, tabu, Taub, buta, abut, tuba, Tuba, batu, Batu

• boeat (van Ophuijsen (1901–1947))

From Malay buat, from Classical Malay بوات (buat), from Old Malay vuat, from Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuat̚]
• Hyphenation: bu‧at

buat

1. to make, to do

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 active 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.

• bikin (nonstandard Indonesian)

buat

1. for

buat

1. in order to, in order that

• “buat” 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.

• boat (1701 by Thomas Bowrey)
• boeat (Van Ophuijsen)
• buwat (Wilkinson)

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).

• IPA^(key): /buat/
• Rhymes: -uat, -wat, -at

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buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)

1. to do (perform, execute)

• (Singapore) bikin

• Indonesian: buat

• “buat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

buat

1. to insert

buat

1. thing

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

buat (active mambuat)

1. to take

• Warneck, J. (1906). Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, p. 38.