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Translingual

Symbol

mak

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Makasar.

English

Alternative forms

Verb

mak (third-person singular simple present maks, present participle makkin or makin, simple past and past participle makked or made)

  1. (Wearside, Durham, dialectal) Alternative form of make

References

  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

See also

Anagrams

Car Nicobarese

Etymology

Suggested by Pinnow to derive from an earlier form um-dak, where the second element is cognate to Mundari दाः (dāḥ). The first element may be cognate to U ʔóm and/or Khasi um.

Noun

mak

  1. water (salt or fresh)
  2. stream

References

  • George Whitehead, Dictionary of the Car-Nicobarese Language (1925)
  • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80: In Car-Nicobarese mak. Central Nic. dak, Chowra rak, 'water',
  • Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow, The Position of the Munda Languages within the Austroasiatic Language Family (1963), page 149

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gemac (“tame, manageable”); see gemak (“comfort, ease”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑk/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑk

Adjective

mak (comparative makker, superlative makst)

  1. tame (domesticated, tamed)
  2. calm, tame (in a calm state of mind. not agitated)

Verb

mak

  1. inflection of makken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ.

Noun

mak

  1. poppy

Further reading

  • “mak”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “mak”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

Pronunciation

Noun

mak m inan

  1. poppy (any plant of the genus Papaver)
  2. poppyseed

Declension

Declension of mak
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative mak maka maki
Genitive maka makowu makow
Dative makoju makoma makam
Accusative mak maka maki
Instrumental makom makoma makami
Locative maku makoma makach

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “mak”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “mak”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

Shortened form of emak, from Proto-Malayic *əma-ʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əma-ʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əma-ʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əma-ʔ, from *əma.

Pronunciation

Noun

mak (Jawi spelling مق, plural mak-mak, informal 1st possessive makku, 2nd possessive makmu, 3rd possessive maknya)

  1. Alternative form of emak

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

mak

  1. Alternative form of make (“equal, partner”)

Etymology 2

Noun

mak

  1. Alternative form of make (“build”)

Etymology 3

Verb

mak

  1. Alternative form of maken

North Frisian

Noun

mak

  1. kiss

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *máHtā (compare Persian مادر (mâdar), Baluchi مات (mát), Pashto مور (mor), Ossetian мад (mad), Avestan 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (mātar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHtā (compare Sanskrit मातृ (mā́tṛ), Hindi माता (mātā)), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (compare Armenian մայր (mayr), Greek μητέρα (mitéra), Russian мать (matʹ), Italian madre, English mother).

Noun

mak f

  1. mother (only in reference to animals)

Polish

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

Noun

mak m inan (diminutive maczek)

  1. poppy (any plant of the genus Papaver)
Declension
Declension of mak
singular plural
nominative mak maki
genitive maku maków
dative makowi makom
accusative mak maki
instrumental makiem makami
locative maku makach
vocative maku maki

Etymology 2

Clipping of McDonald's.

Noun

mak m animal

  1. (slang) McDonald's restaurant, Mickey D's
    Niedawno otworzyli maka koło mnie. ― They recently opened a McDonald's near me.
  2. (slang, by extension) food from McDonald's
Declension
Declension of mak
singular plural
nominative mak maki
genitive maka maków
dative makowi makom
accusative maka maki
instrumental makiem makami
locative maku makach
vocative maku maki

Further reading

  • mak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English maken, from Old English macian.

Verb

mak (third-person singular simple present maks, present participle makkin, simple past made or makkit, past participle made or makkit)

  1. to make
    Mony fowk drink tae mak thaimselves feel blithe. ― Many people drink to make themselves feel happy.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

Pronunciation

Noun

mȁk m (Cyrillic spelling ма̏к)

  1. poppy

Declension

Declension of mak
singular plural
nominative mȁk màkovi
genitive maka makova
dative maku makovima
accusative mak makove
vocative mače makovi
locative maku makovima
instrumental makom makovima

Derived terms

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

Pronunciation

Noun

mak m inan (genitive singular maku, nominative plural maky, genitive plural makov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. poppy

Declension

Declension of mak
singular plural
nominative mak maky
genitive maku makov
dative maku makom
accusative mak maky
locative maku makoch
instrumental makom makmi

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “mak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

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Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.

Pronunciation

Noun

mȁk or mȃk m inan

  1. poppy

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. màk
gen. sing. máka
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		màk máka máki
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		máka mákov mákov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		máku mákoma mákom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		màk máka máke
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		máku mákih mákih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		mákom mákoma máki
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. mák
gen. sing. máka
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		mák máka máki
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		máka mákov mákov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		máku mákoma mákom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		mák máka máke
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		máku mákih mákih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		mákom mákoma máki

Further reading

  • “mak”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish mak, assumed to originate from an unattested Old Swedish adjective *maker (“easy, calm, fit, suiting, appropriate”), from Old Norse makr (“easy to deal with”).

Cognates
Cognate with Icelandic makr, Old English gemæc, Danish mag, Middle Low German mak, German Gemach; also related to German verb machen (to make).

Noun

mak n

  1. a state of leisure; almost exclusively used in the expression:
    i sakta mak ― slowly, without hurry

Declension

  • Nowadays never inflected, but historically with the definite form maket.

Related terms

References

Anagrams

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Mark.

Noun

mak

  1. (obsolete) shilling

Etymology 2

From English mark.

Noun

mak

  1. sign, brand, mark, symbol

Verb

mak

  1. to mark

West Frisian

Adjective

mak

  1. obedient
  2. tame

Inflection

Inflection of mak
uninflected mak
inflected makke
comparative makker
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial mak makker it makst
it makste
indefinite c. sing. makke makkere makste
n. sing. mak makker makste
plural makke makkere makste
definite makke makkere makste
partitive maks makkers —

Further reading

  • “mak”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Wutunhua

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan དམག (dmag).

Pronunciation

Noun

mak

  1. soldier
    gu mak dang-lio-de re.
    He has been a soldier.
    (Quoted in Janhunen et al., p. 94)

References

  • Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN

Zhuang

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *ʰmaːkᴰ (“fruit”). Cognate with Thai หมาก (màak), Lao ໝາກ (māk), Lü ᦖᦱᧅ (ṁaak), Shan မၢၵ်ႇ (màak).

Noun

mak (Sawndip forms 𭽝 or 𰙁 or 漠 or ⿰木没 or 模 or 莫 or ⿱艹墨, 1957–1982 spelling mak)

  1. fruit; nut
Derived terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mak (1957–1982 spelling mak)

  1. kidney
    Synonyms: (dialectal) samndaen, (dialectal) iucij

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mak (1957–1982 spelling mak)

  1. smallpox
  2. cowpox
  3. smallpox vaccine
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