minum

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

From Malay minum, from Old Malay minuṃ, an affixed form of inum +‎ -um-, from Proto-Malayic *inum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum (compare Cebuano inom, Hawaiian inu, Tagalog inom).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈminʊm]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: mi‧num

Verb

minum

  1. to drink

Derived terms

Further reading

Kapampangan

Etymology

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

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 [script needed] (minuṃ) in the form [script needed] (niminuṃña) (current spelling diminumnya).

Pronunciation

Verb

minum (used in the form meminum)

  1. to drink (consume liquid through the mouth)

Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations

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-)

Old English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmiː.num/

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”)
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