makan-makan

Reduplication of makan (“to eat”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˌmakan ˈmakan/ [ˌma.kan ˈma.kan]
• Rhymes: -akan
• Syllabification: ma‧kan-ma‧kan

makan-makan

1. (intransitive) to feast (to partake in a feast, or large meal)

   Near-synonym: berjamu

makan-makan (plural makan-makan)

1. feast

   Near-synonym: perjamuan

• minum-minum (“to drink repeatedly; to consume alcoholic beverages”)

• “makan-makan”, 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

• memakan

Reduplication of makan (“to eat”).

makan-makan (plural makan-makan)

1. (colloquial) feast

   Synonym: jamuan

   • 2025 April 16, @iamami_, X (formerly Twitter)‎^[1] (post), archived from the original on 27-01-2026:

     Ramai betul kat KL Sentral harini. Ada makan-makan ke?

     There's too many people at KL Sentral today. Is there any feast?

makan-makan

1. (colloquial) to have a relaxed meal.

• Hoogervorst, Tom (2015), “Malay youth language in West Malaysia”, in NUSA‎^[2], volume 58, number 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 26 April 2025, page 29