minum
English
Etymology
See minion.
Noun
minum (plural minums)
- (printing, obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A small kind of printing type; minion.
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
Indonesian
Alternative forms
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)
- to drink
- to take, consume (a medicine)
- Synonym: konsumsi
- (obsolete) to drink (to smoke, as tobacco)
- Synonym: isap
Noun
minum (uncountable)
- drinking (the act of consuming a liquid)
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
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪˈnum/ [mɪˈnum]
- Hyphenation: mi‧num
Verb
minum
- to drink
Maguindanao
Verb
minum
- to drink
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *inum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum.
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): /ˈminom/ [ˈmi.nom]
- Rhymes: -inom
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /ˈminum/ [ˈmi.num]
- Rhymes: -inum
- Hyphenation: mi‧num
Verb
minum (Jawi spelling مينوم)
- to drink (to consume liquid through the mouth)
Derived terms
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
- inflection of mīn:
- masculine/neuter dative singular
- masculine/feminine/neuter dative plural
Rejang
Verb
minum (Rejang script ꤸꥇꤵꥈꤸ꥓)
- to drink
Simalungun Batak
Verb
minum
- active of inum (“to drink”)
Toba Batak
Verb
minum
- active of inum (“to drink”)