Borrowed fromMalaymakan.
makan (uncountable)
- (Singapore, Malaysia)Food.
FromProto-Malayic*makan, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*kaən, fromProto-Austronesian*kaən.
makan
- toeat(consume)
makan
- toeat
Inherited fromMalaymakan, fromProto-Malayic*makan, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*kaən, fromProto-Austronesian*kaən.Doublet ofpakan andpangan.
makan (activememakan,passivedimakan)
- (ambitransitive) toeat(to consume, ingest)
Pagi ini sayamakan ikan.- This morning Iate fish.
- (of money, time, etc.) toeat,consume,use up
Pembangunan sekolah inimemakan biaya tinggi.- The construction of this schoolconsumes a lot of money.
- (of chess) toattack, tokill
- Synonym:serang
- (usually of a machine part, pen, etc.) towork(to function correctly)
Remnya sempat gakmakan di tengah jalan.- The brake wasn'tworking in the middle of the road.
- tocorrupt,embezzle
- Synonym:korupsi
Diamemakan sebagian besar uang milik koperasi itu.- Heembezzled most of the cooperative's money.
- (uncommon) todamage,hurt
- Synonyms:rusak,lukai
- (uncommon, of a tool, etc.) toreach
- Synonym:capai
- (uncommon) toconsume, totake
- Synonyms:konsumsi,minum
- (uncommon, idiomatic) tosleep with(to have sex with)
Conjugation of makan (defective)
Clipping ofmakanan(literally“food, meal”).
makan (uncountable)
- (used only in a phrase)sustenance(something that provides support or nourishment)
- Synonym:rezeki
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kaen”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI
FromProto-Malayic*makan, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*kaən, fromProto-Austronesian*kaən.
First attested in theTalang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay[script needed](mākan) in the formnimākan (current spellingdimakan).
makan (Jawi spellingماکن)
- toeat
- consume,spend
- toinjure orpenetrate
- (impersonal) towork asexpected
- fit in
- tofollow (an advice)
- toreceivebribes orillegally obtained money
Affixed terms and other derivations
Regular affixed derivations:
Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:
makan
- definitesingular ofmaka
From eitherSpanishmacan(“bruised”), aninflection ofmacar(“to bruise”), orSpanishMacán, an obsolete form ofMacao according to Manuel (1948), it is supposedly fromMacao, due to Noceda & Sanlucar (1860) defining it as"Arroz de tubigan, bueno y oloroso, uno es blanco y otro colorado. Vino la semilla de Macan." and an early account of Fr.Domingo de Salazar (1583) saying that they have located it at"la ysla de Macan, donde viven los Portugueses que estan junto a la ciudad de Cantón, en la China,...".
makán (Baybayin spellingᜋᜃᜈ᜔)
- (botany) a type ofaromaticrice (Oryza sativa, sometimes subspeciesO. s. indica) grown across thePhilippines with a variety ofwhite rice andred rice, often considered as asecond-classrice
- (zoology) aspecies ofpig with asavorymeat whencooked
- “makan”, inKWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino,Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino,2024
- “makan”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948)Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications,page40
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860)Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
makan on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipediaid