buat

English

Alternative forms

• bowat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːət/

Noun

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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• boeat (1901–1947)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

buat

1. to make, to do

   Synonym: (nonstandard Indonesian) bikin

Usage notes

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.

Conjugation

Conjugation of buat (meng-, intransitive)

root	buat
	active	passive		imperative colloquial	emphatic jussive
		reflective1	ordinary
	ordinary
active	membuat	terbuat	dibuat	buat	buatlah
locative	membuati	terbuati	dibuati	buati	buatilah
perfective causative / applicative2	membuatkan	terbuatkan	dibuatkan	buatkan	buatkanlah
	causative
active	memperbuat	terperbuat	diperbuat	perbuat	perbuatlah
locative	memperbuati	terperbuati	diperbuati	perbuati	perbuatilah
perfective causative / applicative2	memperbuatkan	terperbuatkan	diperbuatkan	perbuatkan	perbuatkanlah

¹ There is other form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
² The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

• berbuat
• buat-buatan
• buatan
• dibuat
• dibuat-buat
• dibuatkan
• diperbuat
• membuat
• membuat-buat
• membuatkan
• memperbuat
• pembuat
• pembuatan
• perbuatan
• teperbuat
• terbuat

• buat cendol
• buat gawe

Preposition

buat

1. for

Conjunction

buat

1. in order to, in order that

References

• “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.

Malay

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Malaysia):

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Verb

buat (used in the form membuat, and berbuat)

1. 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-)

Descendants

• Indonesian: buat

Further reading

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

Simalungun Batak

Noun

buat

1. use

References

• Zufri Hidayat et al. (2015). Kamus Bahasa Simalungun–Indonesia (2nd ed.). Medan: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara, p. 2.

Tenggarong Kutai Malay

Etymology

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

Verb

buat

1. to insert

Tetum

Noun

buat

1. thing

Toba Batak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

Verb

buat (active mambuat)

1. to take

References

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