# mak
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Makasar terms

## English
### Alternative forms

* myek (Geordie)
* make (Standard English)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mæk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Verb

mak (third-person singular simple present maks, present participle makkin or makin, simple past and past participle makked or made)
* (Wearside, Durham, dialectal) Alternative form of make

#### References

* Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “mak”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

### See also

* mak nyah

### Anagrams

* AMK, KAM, KMA, kam

## 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
* water (salt or fresh)
* 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
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɑk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑk

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

mak (comparative makker, superlative makst)
* tame (domesticated, tamed)
* calm, tame (in a calm state of mind. not agitated)

##### Derived terms

* makheid
* zadelmak

##### Derived terms

* gemak
* makkelijk
* makker

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: mak

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mak
* inflection of makken:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* kam

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Clipping of mamak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpaʔ]
* Hyphenation: pak

### Noun

mak (plural mak-mak)
* mother

### Further reading

* “mak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmak/
* Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: mak

### Noun

mak
* 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

* IPA: /mak/

### Noun

mak m inan
* poppy (any plant of the genus Papaver)
* poppyseed

#### Derived terms

* mack
* makaty
* makowaty
* makowy

### 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

* emak, umak
* امق, مق, اومق

### 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

* IPA: /ˈmak/ [ˈmaʔ]
* Rhymes: -maʔ, -aʔ

### Noun

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

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mak
* Alternative form of make (“equal, partner”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mak
* Alternative form of make (“build”)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

mak
* Alternative form of maken

## North Frisian
### Noun

mak
* 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
* mother (only in reference to animals)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmak/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: mak
* Homophones: mag, Mak

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

mak m inan (diminutive maczek)
* poppy (any plant of the genus Papaver)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Clipping of McDonald's.

#### Noun

mak m animal
* (slang) McDonald's restaurant, Mickey D's
    Niedawno otworzyli maka koło mnie. ― They recently opened a McDonald's near me.
* (slang, by extension) food from McDonald's

##### Declension
### 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)
* 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

* IPA: /mâk/

### Noun

mȁk m (Cyrillic spelling ма̏к)
* poppy

#### Derived terms

* makòvnjača

## Slovak
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mak]

### Noun

mak m inan (relational adjective makový or (rare) mačný or (rare) máčny, diminutive máčik or (rare) mačíček)
* poppy

#### Declension
### 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, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mák/, /máːk/

### Noun

mȁk or mȃk m inan
* poppy

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “mak”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## 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”).
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
* 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

* förmak
* gemak
* maka
* make
* maklig
* omak

### References

* mak in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* mak in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* mak in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* kam

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Mark.

#### Noun

mak
* (obsolete) shilling

### Etymology 2

From English mark.

#### Noun

mak
* sign, brand, mark, symbol

#### Verb

mak
* to mark

## West Frisian
### Adjective

mak
* obedient
* tame

#### Further reading

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

## Wutunhua
### Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan དམག (dmag).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɐx]

### Noun

mak
* soldier
    gu mak dang-lio-de re.He has [certainly] 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

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /maːk˧˥/
* Tone numbers: mak$^7$
* Hyphenation: mak

### 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)
* fruit; nut

##### Derived terms

* makit
* makbenjdauz
* makbizbaz
* makbinzgoj
* makbingzgoj
* makbug
* makbugdiengz
* makcaujcij
* makdauz
* makdoengj
* makdumh
* makfiengz
* makgak
* makgam
* makgyamj
* makgyaeuq
* makhaeuq
* makhwzdauz
* maklangz
* maklaeq
* makleiz
* maklozhan
* makmanghgoj
* makmaenj
* makmbi
* maknam
* maknim
* maknimhenj
* makningzmungx
* maknganx
* makraem
* makseq
* maksigloux
* makvengj
* makyid
* makyungz

### 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)
* 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)
* smallpox
* cowpox
* smallpox vaccine