Home › Words › M › makanmakan/ˈmɑkɑn/makan means food.makan is pronounced /ˈmɑkɑn/.EtymologyUnadapted borrowing from Malay makan. Doublet of kai.nounFood.e.g.““HDB there already got makan, they want to come here for what? So leceh,” Mr Razali says. He opens his stall only on weekdays, from 6.30 AM to about 3 PM in the afternoon.” — 2021 June 8, Sean Lim, quoting Razali, “These Stalls Used To Fuel Workers At Industrial Parks. Now, They Are Barely Surviving”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025:verbTo eat.e.g.“Mdm Zaiton: You makan already? Eat what?” — 2023, Alfian Sa'at, “Dreamplay”, in Collected Plays Two, Singapore: Ethos Books, →ISBN:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).