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makan

Pronunciation: /ˈmakan/

“makan” is a Malay word. Its 11 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to eat
  2. to consume; to spend; to use up; to take; to demand (time, money, or resources).
  3. to damage, destroy
  4. to kill, to take out (of chess pieces)
  5. to injure or penetrate
  6. to work as expected (usually of a machine part)
  7. to fit in (of holes)
  8. to follow (an advice)
  9. to receive bribes or illegally obtained money
  10. to sleep with

noun

  1. livelihood, subsistence, sustenance

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *makan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *makaən, from Proto-Austronesian *makaən, from *ma- + *kaən. First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (mākan) in the form nimākan (current spelling dimakan).

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