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makan (uncountable)

  1. (Singapore, Malaysia) Food.

From Proto-Malayic *makan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

makan

  1. to eat (consume)

makan

  1. to eat

Inherited from Malay makan, from Proto-Malayic *makan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən. Doublet of pakan and pangan.

makan (active memakan, passive dimakan)

  1. (ambitransitive) to eat (to consume, ingest)

    Pagi ini saya makan ikan.

    This morning I ate fish.
  2. (of money, time, etc.) to eat, consume, use up

    Pembangunan sekolah ini memakan biaya tinggi.

    The construction of this school consumes a lot of money.
  3. (of chess) to attack, to kill
    Synonym: serang
  4. (usually of a machine part, pen, etc.) to work (to function correctly)

    Remnya sempat gak makan di tengah jalan.

    The brake wasn't working in the middle of the road.
  5. to corrupt, embezzle
    Synonym: korupsi

    Dia memakan sebagian besar uang milik koperasi itu.

    He embezzled most of the cooperative's money.
  6. (uncommon) to damage, hurt
    Synonyms: rusak, lukai
  7. (uncommon, of a tool, etc.) to reach
    Synonym: capai
  8. (uncommon) to consume, to take
    Synonyms: konsumsi, minum
  9. (uncommon, idiomatic) to sleep with (to have sex with)

Clipping of makanan (literally “food, meal”).

makan (uncountable)

  1. (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 from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Malayic *makan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (mākan) in the form nimākan (current spelling dimakan).

makan (Jawi spelling ماکن)

  1. to eat
  2. consume, spend
  3. to injure or penetrate
  4. (impersonal) to work as expected
  5. fit in
  6. to follow (an advice)
  7. to receive bribes or illegally obtained money

makan

  1. definite singular of maka

From either Spanish macan (“bruised”), an inflection of macar (“to bruise”), or Spanish Macán, an obsolete form of Macao according to Manuel (1948), it is supposedly from Macao, 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 spelling ᜋᜃᜈ᜔)

  1. (botany) a type of aromatic rice (Oryza sativa, sometimes subspecies O. s. indica) grown across the Philippines with a variety of white rice and red rice, often considered as a second-class rice
  2. (zoology) a species of pig with a savory meat when cooked