muai

muai

1. first-person singular past historic of muer

muai

1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural imperative of muar

Inherited from Malay muai (“to swell; to expand”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmuai̯/ [ˈmu.ai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai̯
• Syllabification: mu‧ai

muai (active memuai, imperative muai, emphatic-jussive muailah)

1. to rise (of dough, paste)
2. to swell (of boiled rice grains).
3. to spread
4. to expand.
5. to ferment.

muai (plural muai-muai)

1. expansion

• “muai”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016