mak

mak

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Makasar.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Makasar terms

• myek (Geordie)
• make (Standard English)

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

mak (third-person singular simple present maks, present participle makkin or makin, simple past and past participle makked or made)

1. (Wearside, Durham, dialectal) Alternative form of make

• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “mak”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

• mak nyah

• AMK, KAM, KMA, kam

Suggested by Pinnow to derive from an earlier form um-dak, where the second element is cognate to Mundari दाः (dāḥ). The first element may be cognate to U ʔóm and/or Khasi um.

mak

1. water (salt or fresh)
2. stream

• George Whitehead, Dictionary of the Car-Nicobarese Language (1925)
• Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80: In Car-Nicobarese mak. Central Nic. dak, Chowra rak, 'water', […]
• Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow, The Position of the Munda Languages within the Austroasiatic Language Family (1963), page 149

From Middle Dutch gemac (“tame, manageable”); see gemak (“comfort, ease”).

• IPA^(key): /mɑk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑk

mak (comparative makker, superlative makst)

1. tame (domesticated, tamed)
2. calm, tame (in a calm state of mind. not agitated)

• Afrikaans: mak

mak

1. inflection of makken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• kam

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: mak

mak

1. poppy

• “mak”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “mak”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

From Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

• IPA^(key): /mak/

mak m inan

1. poppy (any plant of the genus Papaver)
2. poppyseed

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “mak”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “mak”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

• emak, umak
• امق, مق, اومق

Shortened form of emak, from Proto-Malayic *əma-ʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əma-ʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əma-ʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əma-ʔ, from *əma.

• IPA^(key): /maʔ/
• Rhymes: -maʔ, -aʔ

mak (Jawi spelling مق, plural mak-mak, informal 1st possessive makku, 2nd possessive makmu, 3rd possessive maknya)

1. Alternative form of emak

mak

1. Alternative form of make (“equal, partner”)

mak

1. Alternative form of make (“build”)

mak

1. Alternative form of maken

mak

1. kiss

From Proto-Iranian *máHtā (compare Persian مادر (mâdar), Baluchi مات (mát), Pashto مور (mor), Ossetian мад (mad), Avestan 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (mātar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHtā (compare Sanskrit मातृ (mā́tṛ), Hindi माता (mātā)), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (compare Armenian մայր (mayr), Greek μητέρα (mitéra), Russian мать (matʹ), Italian madre, English mother).

mak f

1. mother (only in reference to animals)

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

mak

Wikipedia ^pl

• IPA^(key): /ˈmak/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: mak
• Homophones: mag, Mak

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

mak m inan (diminutive maczek)

1. poppy (any plant of the genus Papaver)

Clipping of McDonald's.

mak m animal

1. (slang) McDonald's restaurant, Mickey D's

   Niedawno otworzyli maka koło mnie. ― They recently opened a McDonald's near me.

2. (slang, by extension) food from McDonald's

• mak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Middle English maken, from Old English macian.

mak (third-person singular simple present maks, present participle makkin, simple past made or makkit, past participle made or makkit)

1. to make

   Mony fowk drink tae mak thaimselves feel blithe. ― Many people drink to make themselves feel happy.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

• IPA^(key): /mâk/

mȁk m (Cyrillic spelling ма̏к)

1. poppy

• makòvnjača

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

• IPA^(key): [mak]

mak m inan (related adjective makový or (rare) mačný or (rare) máčny, diminutive máčik or (rare) mačíček)

1. poppy

• “mak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

 

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

mak

Wikipedia ^sl

From Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

• IPA^(key): /mák/, /máːk/

mȁk or mȃk m inan

1. poppy

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• “mak”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

From Old Swedish mak, assumed to originate from an unattested Old Swedish adjective *maker (“easy, calm, fit, suiting, appropriate”), from Old Norse makr (“easy to deal with”).

mak n

1. a state of leisure; almost exclusively used in the expression:

   i sakta mak ― slowly, without hurry

• Nowadays never inflected, but historically with the definite form maket.

• mak in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mak in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• mak in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• kam

Borrowed from German Mark.

mak

1. (obsolete) shilling

From English mark.

mak

1. sign, brand, mark, symbol

mak

1. to mark

mak

1. obedient
2. tame

• “mak”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Borrowed from Tibetan དམག (dmag).

• IPA^(key): [mɐx]

mak

1. soldier

   gu mak dang-lio-de re.

   He has [certainly] been a soldier.

   (Quoted in Janhunen et al., p. 94)

• Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /maːk˧˥/
• Tone numbers: mak⁷
• Hyphenation: mak

From Proto-Tai *ʰmaːkᴰ (“fruit”). Cognate with Thai หมาก (màak), Lao ໝາກ (māk), Lü ᦖᦱᧅ (ṁaak), Shan မၢၵ်ႇ (màak).

mak (Sawndip forms 𭽝 or 𰙁 or 漠 or ⿰木没 or 模 or 莫 or ⿱艹墨, 1957–1982 spelling mak)

1. fruit; nut

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mak (1957–1982 spelling mak)

1. kidney

   Synonyms: (dialectal) samndaen, (dialectal) iucij

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mak (1957–1982 spelling mak)

1. smallpox
2. cowpox
3. smallpox vaccine