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Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from English amount, from Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).
Pronunciation
Noun
amaun (Jawi spelling اماءون, plural amaun-amaun, informal 1st possessive amaunku, 2nd possessive amaunmu, 3rd possessive amaunnya)
- A quantity of something; an amount.
- Synonym: jumlah
- amaun bahan ― amount of material
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