minum

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• immun., Mumin, nummi, mu'min

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• minoem (1901–1947)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈminum/ [ˈmi.nʊm]
• Rhymes: -inum
• Syllabification: mi‧num

Verb

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

Derived terms

• 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

• makan (“to eat”)

References

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

Further reading

• “minum” 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.

Kapampangan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

minum

1. to drink

Maguindanao

Verb

minum

1. to drink

Malay

Etymology

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

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

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /minom/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /minum/
• Rhymes: (Johor-Selangor) -inom, (Riau-Lingga) -inum

Verb

minum (Jawi spelling مينوم)

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

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular 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-)

Descendants

• Indonesian: minum

Further reading

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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.num/

Determiner

mīnum

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

Rejang

Verb

minum (Rejang script ꤸꥇꤵꥈꤸ꥓)

1. to drink

Simalungun Batak

Verb

minum

1. active of inum (“to drink”)

Toba Batak

Verb

minum

1. active of inum (“to drink”)