make
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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war
Etymology: From Middle English maken, from Old English macian (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ- (“to knead, mix, make”).
Related to match.
Cognates
* Scots mak (“to make”)
* Saterland Frisian moakje (“to make”)
* West Frisian meitsje (“to make”)
* Dutch maken (“to make”)
* Dutch Low Saxon maken (“to make”)
* German Low German maken (“to make”)
* German machen (“to make, do”)
* Danish mage (“to make, arrange (in a certain way)”)
* Latin mācerō, macer
* Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)
Inflected forms:
form: makes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: making
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: made
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: made
pos: verb
tags: past
form: maked
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
obsolete
participle
past
form: maked
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
obsolete
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: make
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: make
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: made
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: maked
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
first-person
past
singular
form: make
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: makest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: made
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: maked
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
second-person
singular
form: madest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: makes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: maketh
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: made
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: maked
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
singular
third-person
form: make
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: made
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: maked
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
plural
form: make
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: made
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: maked
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
subjunctive
form: make
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: making
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: makeing
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
present
form: made
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maked
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: mak
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Durham
Wearside
dialectal
form: makee
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: myek
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Geordie
dialectal
form: makes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Durham
Wearside
dialectal
form: makee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: myek
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Geordie
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: To create.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We made a bird feeder for our yard.
I'll make a man out of him yet.
He makes deodorants.
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard[…]shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”:[…]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
gloss: To create.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I made a poem for her wedding.
He made a will.
gloss: To create.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: make war
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
But whether or not the VCR makes a complete comeback, VHS enthusiasts agree that these tapes occupy an irreplaceable place in culture.
gloss: To create.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: God made earth and heaven.
Thine are these orbs of light and shade;
⁠Thou madest Life in man and brute;
⁠Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot
Is on the skull which thou hast made.
gloss: To create.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'm making cereal for breakfast. Who wants some?
gloss: To behave, to act.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.
gloss: To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And all Israel's language about this power, except that it makes for righteousness, is approximate language
Follow after the things which make for peace.
Considerations infinite
 Do make against it.
gloss: To constitute.
pos: verb
examples: They make a cute couple.
This makes the third infraction.
One swallow does not a summer make.
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
Style alone does not make a writer.
So if your prospective school is proudly displaying that "We Are Outstanding" banner on its perimeter fence, well, that is wonderful … but do bear in mind that in all likelihood it has been awarded for results in those two subjects, rather than for its delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum which brings out the best in every child. Which is, of course, what makes a great primary school.
gloss: To add up to, have a sum of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Two and four make six.
gloss: To interpret.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I don’t know what to make of it.
They couldn't make anything of the inscription.
What time do you make it?
gloss: To bring into success.
pos: verb
tags: stressed
transitive
usually
examples: This company is what made you.
She married into wealth and so has it made.
who makes or ruins with a smile or frown
A great expression and amazing eye contact, in particular, can make a photograph, and without them, you can end up with very little.
gloss: To cause to be.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: The blisters on my foot made it a problem to walk without a cane.
The citizens made their objections clear.
This might make you a bit woozy.
Did I make myself heard?
Scotch will make you a man.
Mom made it clear what she expected from me in college.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
gloss: To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
pos: verb
examples: Homer makes Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus, unlike Hesiod who depicted her as born from the sea foam.
1709–1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning
He is not that goose and Ass that Valla would make him.
So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
gloss: To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: You're making her cry.
I was made to feel like a criminal.
In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
gloss: To force to do.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: The teacher made the student study harder.
Don’t let them make you suffer.
gloss: To indicate or suggest to be.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
gloss: To cover neatly with bedclothes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To recognise, identify, spot.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
examples: I caught sight of him two or three times and then made him turning north into Laurel Canyon Drive.
Linus Caldwell: Well, she just made Danny and Yen, which means in the next 48 hours the three o' your pictures are gonna be in every police station in Europe.
David Sinclair: (walking) Almost at Seventh; I should have a visual any second now. (rounds a corner, almost collides into Kaleed Asan) Damn, that was close.
Don Eppes: David, he make you?
David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.
gloss: To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
I won't be able to make dinner; something's come up at work.
They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side.
gloss: To proceed (in a direction).
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: They made westward over the snowy mountains.
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
They made away from the fire toward the river.
As the guard's whistle shrilled the "right away," I made to join my companions in the train, but with a smile the driver, whose name was Abdul, bade me take the fireman's seat.
gloss: To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
I made over twenty miles that day, for I was now hardened to fatigue and accustomed to long hikes, having spent considerable time hunting and exploring in the immediate vicinity of camp.
gloss: To move at (a speed).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
This baby can make 220 miles an hour.
gloss: To appoint; to name.
pos: verb
examples: On November 15, 1396,[…]Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;
gloss: To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Jimmy Conway: They're gonna make him.
Henry Hill: Paulie's gonna make you?
gloss: To defecate or urinate.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
euphemistic
intransitive
examples: When my father comes back with a dark wet spot on his pants, right in front, as if he has made in his pants, he starts eating his food in great shovelfuls.
"He made in his pants, okay? I hope everybody's satisfied!" She flung her hat on the floor and kicked it. "He'll never come back to school now! Never! And it's all your fault!
gloss: To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They hope to make a bigger profit.
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.
She made ten points in that game.
Wales' defence had an unfamiliar look with Cardiff youngster Darcy Blake preferred to 44-cap Danny Gabbidon of Queen's Park Rangers, who did not even make the bench.
Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”
I lived in tiny apartments with rotating roommates, paying rent wildly disproportionate to what I made.
gloss: To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Whether, […], the construction of additional roads […] would present a case in which the exaction of prohibitory or otherwise onerous rates may be prevented, though it result in an impossibility for some or all of the roads to make expenses, we need not say; no such case is before us.
At first glance, you may be able to make rent and other overhead expenses because the business is doing well, but if sales drop can you still make rent?
So you can’t make payroll. This happens.[…]many business owners who have never confronted it before will be forced to deal with this most difficult matter of not making payroll.
gloss: To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman
to solace him some time, as I do when I make
gloss: To enact; to establish.
pos: verb
examples: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
gloss: To develop into; to prove to be.
pos: verb
examples: She'll make a fine president.
Classical literature usually makes heavy reading.
gloss: To study or train so as to become (a profession); to grow up to be (something).
pos: verb
tags: Appalachia
examples: He'll make a doctor one day.
gloss: To form or formulate in the mind.
pos: verb
examples: make plans
made a questionable decision
gloss: To perform a feat.
pos: verb
examples: make a leap
make a pass
make a u-turn
Say, you know? I knew I should have made a left toin at Albuquerque.
gloss: To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the end, my class didn't make, which left me with a bit of free time.
gloss: To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: a scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make
gloss: To increase; to augment; to accrue.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To be engaged or concerned in.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?
gloss: To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: Footman. Madam! Mr. Dorimant!
Lov. What makes him here?
What makes her in the wood so late,
 A furlong from the castle gate?
gloss: To take the virginity of.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
transitive
examples: I was a young un at 'Oogli,
Shy as a girl to begin;
Aggie de Castrer she made me,
— An' Aggie was clever as sin;
Older than me, but my first un —
More like a mother she were
Showed me the way to promotion an' pay,
An' I learned about women from 'er!
gloss: To have sexual intercourse with.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He could see that her face was thin, proud. She looked like she'd be a hard dame to make. He didn't want just that. She'd be a hard dame to win.
The boys in the lower classes who had already dropped out of school derived much of their prestige among their peers from their skill in “making” girls.
And I'm trying to make some girl / Who tells me, "Baby, better come back, maybe next week" / "'Cause you see, I'm on a losing streak"
The only thing she wants to make is you!
Monday night, I'm makin' Jen
 Tuesday night, I'm makin' Lyn
 Wednesday night, I'm makin' Catherine
 Oh, why can't I be makin' love come true?
gloss: Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for us was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
gloss: To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: kind, type
we service all makes and models
Q: What make and model of car do you drive? A: It's a Buick LaCrosse.
gloss: Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: makeup, form, conformation, composition; form factor
I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it.
gloss: Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
pos: noun
examples: The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
The Royal Typewriter Company is distributing a very attractive eight page folder, announcing the Royal Number 10, the first machine of Royal make which uses levers instead of wires to operate the type-bars.
The camera was of German make.
The camera was of recent make.
gloss: A person's character or disposition.
pos: noun
examples: I never feel very much excited about any old thing; it's not my make; but I've got a sort of shiver inside of me, and a watery feeling in the heart region.
gloss: The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: […] papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed.
gloss: Quantity produced, especially of materials.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons.
gloss: A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
pos: noun
examples: However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank.
gloss: Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "They ever get a make on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress.
"I'm sure we'll get a make on the suspect's prints by day break, so if you come down town, I'll see you get everything available. Go ahead and process the car, we won't have any need of it."
He got out his binoculars, trying for a make on the plate, but the plate light was conveniently not working. The windows must have been tinted, because he could not see inside the van, either.
“Okay, if I could understand correctly what Oscar was saying through all the doubletalk, we've got a make on the bigwig occupant of the convoy ahead. Chaim Lieberman, Israeli Ambassador to the United States.” “Shit,” said Gardner.
gloss: A promotion.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Sent back the list of makes with only Post and Hamilton on it. (Buckner had recommended 10 staff officers and 1 combat soldier!)
gloss: A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.
pos: noun
examples: Blue Peter "make"
gloss: Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
pos: noun
examples: It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time.
'Not your make,' said the adjutant sternly and started dealing the cards with his white be-ringed hands as though he was in haste to get rid of them.
gloss: A made basket.
pos: noun
gloss: The closing of an electrical circuit.
pos: noun
examples: If the interrupter operated every 2 sec., the current would rise to 10 amp. and drop to zero with successive "makes" and "breaks."
Related words: match
Derived words: bad facts make bad law
beauty won't make the pot boil
cannot make it
clothes don't make the man
clothes make the man
demake
doctors make the worst patients
don't get your honey where you make your money
don't make me laugh
empty barrels make the most noise
empty cans make the most noise
empty vessels make the most noise
empty vessels make the most sound
enough to make a cat laugh
enough to make the angels weep
fine feathers make fine birds
foremake
good fences make good neighbors
good fences make good neighbours
handmake
hard cases make bad law
how the sausage is made
if I may make so bold
it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home
it takes all kinds to make a world
it takes all sorts to make a world
it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
it takes two to make a quarrel
know how many beans make five
lawmaking
life is what you make it
Mackem
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
mackly
makable
make a better door than a window
make a big thing out of
makeability
makeable
make a book
make a break for it
make a career of
make a career out of
make a case
make a case for
make a cat laugh
make a clean breast
make a dash for it
make a day of it
make a deal
make a decision
make a dent
make a difference
make a dollar out of fifteen cents
make a face
make a federal case out of something
make a fist of
make a fool of
make a fool out of
make a fortune
make after
make a fuss
make against
make a good fist of
make a go of
make a gra
make a habit of
make a hash of
make-ahead
make a hole
make a joke of
make a killing
make a leg
make a light
make a lip
make a living
make all the difference
make all the running
make a long arm
make a mark
make a meal of
make a meal out of
make amends
make a mistake
make a mockery of
make a monkey of
make a monkey out of
make a mountain out of a molehill
make a move
make a muscle
make a name for oneself
make an appearance
make an ass of
make-and-break
make an effort
make an entrance
make an errand
make an example of
make an exception
make an exhibition of oneself
make an honest woman
make an honest woman out of
make a night of it
make an impression
make an offer
make a noise in the world
make a nuisance of oneself
make a pass
make a pig of oneself
make a pig out of oneself
make a pig's ear of
make a pile
make a play
make a point
make a production out of
make a promise
make a public spectacle of oneself
make a rabbit bite a bulldog
make a run for it
make a scene
make a show of oneself
make a silk purse of a sow's ear
make a spectacle of oneself
make a splash
make a stand
make a statement
make a stick for one's own back
make a stink
make a time
make a Virginia fence
make a virtue of necessity
makeaway
make away
make away with
make a wish
make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
make baby Jesus cry
make bank
makebate
make beautiful music together
make-before-break
make belief
make believe
make-believe
make biscuits
make bold
make bones about
make book
make both ends meet
make bricks without clay
make bricks without straw
make bricks without straws
make capital out of
make certain
make common cause
make conscience
make contact with
make conversation
make-debate
make default
make do
makedom
make down
make due
make ends meet
make every effort
make eyes
make faces
make fair weather
makefast
make fast
make fetch happen
make file
make fish of one and flesh of another
make fish of one and fowl of another
make flexible
make for
make foul water
make-fray
make free of
make free with
make friendly
make friends
make fun of
makegame
make game of
make garden
makegood
make good
make good on
make good one's running
make good time
make ground
make happen
make hard work of
make haste
make hay
make hay while the sun shines
make head against
make head nor tail of
make head or tail of
make headway
make heavy going of
make heavy weather
make heavy weather of
make history
make interesting
make into
make it
make it big
make it count
make it do or do without
make it interesting
make it make sense
make it one's business
make it one's life
make it rain
make it snappy
make it so
make it so that
make-king
make known
make land
make landfall
make lemonade
makeless
make light of
make light work of
make like
make like a baby and head out
make like a banana and split
make like a tree
make like a tree and leave
makeline
make little of
make love
make love to the camera
make matters worse
make me
make mention
make mention of
make merry
make mileage out of
make mincemeat of
make mincemeat out of
make moan
make mockery of
make money
make mouths
make much
make muffins
make music
make neither head nor tail of
make news
make nice
make no bones about
make noise
make noises
make no mistake
make no odds
make no secret of
make nothing of
make of
make off
make off with
make old bones
make one
make one's bed
make one's bed and lie in it
make one's bones
make one's bow
make oneself at home
make oneself clear
make oneself scarce
make one's entrance
make one's exit
make one's hand
make one's manners
make one's mark
make one's number
make one's own
make one's own luck
make one's presence felt
make one's toenails curl
make one's toes curl
make one's toilet
make one's way
make or break
make-or-break
make out
make out like a bandit
make out of
make out with
make over
makepeace
make peace
make pigs and whistles of
make pigs and whistles of something
make position
make pretend
make quick work of
make-ready
make right
make room
make sail
make semblant
make sense
make shift
makeshift
make ship
make shit of
make shit shake
make short work of
make some noise
make someone hard to catch
make someone's acquaintance
make someone's blood boil
make someone's day
make someone's ears sad
make someone's flesh crawl
make someone's flesh creep
make someone's hair curl
make someone's hair stand on end
make someone's head spin
make someone's jaw drop
make someone's skin crawl
make someone's skin creep
make someone's teeth itch
make someone's toenails curl
make someone's toes curl
make something of
make something of oneself
makespan
make-sport
make sport of
make strange
make streaks
make strides
makestrife
make sure
make terms
make the angels blush
make the bald man cry
make the bed
make the best of
make the best of a bad bargain
make the best of a bad job
make the best of one's way
make the case for
make the cheese more binding
make the cut
make the difference
make the dust fly
make the feathers fly
make the first move
make the fur fly
make the grade
make the headlines
make the most of
make the news
make the passes
make the perfect the enemy of the good
make the riffle
make the road shorter
make the rounds
make the running
make the weather
make the welkin ring
make the world go around
make the world go round
make the wrong turn at Albuquerque
make things interesting
make this world go around
make this world go round
make tick
make time
make time with
make to order
make to stock
make tracks
make tracks for
make trial of
make up
make up to
make use
make vintage
make water
make waves
make way
makeweight
make whole
make whoopee
make with
make-work
make wudu
make yourself at home
make yourselves at home
many a mickle makes a muckle
many hands make light work
matchless
matchmake
meddle and make
meddle nor make
meddle or make
mismake
new-make
newmake
not make any bones about
one swallow does not a spring make
one swallow does not make a spring
one swallow does not make a summer
one swallow doesn't a spring make
one swallow doesn't a summer make
one swallow doesn't make a spring
one swallow doesn't make a summer
overmake
premake
put two and two together and make five
remake
short accounts make long friends
short reckonings make long friends
stuff dreams are made of
tailor make
tailor-make
the cowl does not make the monk
they don't make them like that anymore
time to make the donuts
troublemaker
two wrongs don't make a right
two wrongs make a right
unmake
unmakeable
upmake
ve haf vays of making you talk
wanton kittens make sober cats
we all make mistakes
what do you make the time
what time do you make it
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
you make the bed you lie in
you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: maak
lang: Albanian
word: kry
lang: Arabic
word: صَنَعَ
roman: ṣanaʕa
lang: Armenian
word: ստեղծել
roman: steġcel
lang: Assamese
word: বনোৱা
roman: bonüa
lang: Assamese
word: সজা
roman: xoza
lang: Assamese
word: সৃষ্টি কৰা
roman: xristi kora
lang: Asturian
word: facer
lang: Bashkir
word: эшләү
roman: eşləw/eştəw
lang: Bashkir
word: эштәү
roman: eşləw/eştəw
lang: Bashkir
word: яһау
roman: yahaw
lang: Betawi
word: bikin
lang: Bulgarian
word: създавам
roman: sǎzdavam
lang: Cebuano
word: gama
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 整
roman: zing²
lang: Czech
word: vyrábět
lang: Czech
word: dělat
lang: Czech
word: tvořit
lang: Czech
word: vytvářet
lang: Czech
word: udělat
lang: Danish
word: lave
lang: Danish
word: fremstille
lang: Danish
word: skabe
lang: Dutch
word: maken
lang: Esperanto
word: krei
lang: Faliscan
word: facio (facio)
lang: Finnish
word: tehdä
lang: Finnish
word: luoda
lang: French
word: faire
lang: French
word: créer
lang: West-Frisian
word: meitsje
lang: Galician
word: facer
lang: German
word: machen
lang: Old High German
word: mahhōn
lang: Greek
word: φτιάχνω
roman: ftiáchno
lang: Greek
word: κατασκευάζω
roman: kataskevázo
lang: Greek
word: κάνω
roman: káno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κτίζω
roman: ktízō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ποιέω
roman: poiéō
lang: Mbya Guarani
word: japo
lang: Hebrew
word: עשה
lang: Hindi
word: रचना
roman: racnā
lang: Hindi
word: सृजना
roman: sŕjnā
lang: Hindi
word: रचना करना
roman: racnā karnā
lang: Hindi
word: सृजन करना
roman: sŕjan karnā
lang: Hungarian
word: alkot
lang: Icelandic
word: búa til
lang: Irish
word: déan
lang: Japanese
word: 創る
roman: tsukuru
lang: Japanese
word: 創造する
roman: sōzō suru
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: faze
lang: Korean
word: 만들다
roman: mandeulda
lang: Korean
word: 제작하다
roman: jejakhada
lang: Latin
word: facio
lang: Latin
word: ago
lang: Latin
word: creo
lang: Eastern Mari
word: ышташ
roman: yštaš
lang: Middle English
word: maken
lang: Mòcheno
word: mòchen
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: hìeshā
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: hīe
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: hīeshá
lang: Norwegian
word: lage
lang: Old English
word: wyrċan
lang: Persian
word: ساختن
lang: Polish
word: tworzyć
lang: Polish
word: stworzyć
lang: Polish
word: robić
lang: Portuguese
word: fazer
lang: Russian
word: де́лать
roman: délatʹ
lang: Russian
word: сде́лать
roman: sdélatʹ
lang: Russian
word: создава́ть
roman: sozdavátʹ
lang: Russian
word: созда́ть
roman: sozdátʹ
lang: Scots
word: mak
lang: Spanish
word: hacer
lang: Spanish
word: crear
lang: Spanish
word: instrumentar
lang: Spanish
word: formar
lang: Swedish
word: skapa
lang: Turkish
word: yapmak
lang: Turkish
word: yaratmak
lang: Welsh
word: creu
lang: Yao (Africa)
word: kupanganya
lang: Zazaki
word: vırazen
lang: Albanian
word: krijoj
lang: Finnish
word: muotoilla
lang: West-Frisian
word: meitsje
lang: Old High German
word: mahhōn
lang: Hungarian
word: készít
lang: Korean
word: 이루다
roman: iruda
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: hìeshā
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: hīe
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: hīeshá
lang: Persian
word: تشکیل دادن
lang: Scots
word: mak
lang: Spanish
word: formar
lang: Swedish
word: forma
lang: Afrikaans
word: doen
lang: Arabic
word: جَعَلَ
roman: jaʕala
lang: Armenian
word: -ցն-
roman: -cʻn-
lang: Armenian
word: -ացն-
roman: -acʻn-
lang: Armenian
word: -եցն-
roman: -ecʻn-
lang: Betawi
word: bikin
lang: Catalan
word: fer
lang: Dutch
word: doen
lang: Dutch
word: ertoe brengen
lang: Esperanto
word: igi
lang: Finnish
word: saada
lang: French
word: faire
lang: German
word: lassen
lang: German
word: bringen
lang: Hebrew
word: גרם
lang: Hungarian
word: -at
lang: Hungarian
word: -et
lang: Hungarian
word: -tat
lang: Hungarian
word: -tet
lang: Hungarian
word: elér
lang: Irish
word: tabhair ar
lang: Italian
word: fare
lang: Japanese
word: 引き起こす
roman: hikiokosu
lang: Japanese
word: させる
roman: saseru
lang: Japanese
word: やらせる
roman: yaraseru
lang: Judeo-Italian
word: פַֿארֵי
lang: Korean
word: 일으키다
roman: ireukida
lang: Latin
word: facio
lang: Latin
word: ago
lang: Old English
word: dōn
lang: Polish
word: sprawiać
lang: Portuguese
word: fazer
lang: Spanish
word: hacer
lang: Zazaki
word: arden