minum

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See also: mínum, mīnum, and -minum

English

Etymology

See minion.

Noun

minum (plural minums)

  1. (printing, obsolete) A small kind of printing type; minion.
  2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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-Malayic *inum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum. The appearance of the consonant /m/ at the beginning of a word is probably caused by the influence of the Old Javanese infix -um-.

Pronunciation

Verb

minum

  1. (transitive) to drink

Conjugation

Conjugation of minum (ber-, transitive)
Root minum
Active Involuntary Passive Basic /
Imperative
Jussive
Active berminum terminum diminum minum minumlah
Locative
Causative / Applicative1 meminumkan terminumkan diminumkan minumkan minumkanlah
Causative
Locative
Causative / Applicative1 memperminumkan terperminumkan diperminumkan perminumkan perminumkanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

Further reading

Kapampangan

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay minum, Proto-Malayic *inum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum (compare Hawaiian inu, Malay minum, Tagalog inom).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪˈnum/
  • Hyphenation: mi‧num

Verb

minum

  1. to drink

Maguindanao

Verb

minum

  1. to drink

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *inum (compare Indonesian minum), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum (compare Cebuano inom, Hawaiian inu, Tagalog inom).

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay (minuṃ) in the form (niminuṃña) (current spelling diminumnya).

Pronunciation

Verb

minum (Jawi spelling مينوم)

  1. to drink (consume liquid through the mouth)

Derived terms

Further reading

Old English

Pronunciation

Determiner

mīnum

  1. inflection of mīn:
    1. masculine/neuter dative singular
    2. masculine/feminine/neuter dative plural

Rejang

Romanization

minum

  1. Romanization of ꤸꥇꤵꥈꤸ꥓

Simalungun Batak

Verb

minum

  1. active of inum (to drink)

Toba Batak

Verb

minum

  1. active of inum (to drink)