restaurant, an eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter
köken: Compound of rumah (“house”) + makan (“eat”), literally “eating house”. Compare to Chinese 飯館/饭馆 (“restaurant”, literally “food/cuisine + house”) or Dutch eethuis (“diner, restaurant”, literally “eat house”).
köken: Etymology tree Latin mandūcus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin mandūcō Latin mandūcāre Old French mangier Old French mengier Middle French manger French mangerbor. ▲ Old French mangierbor. Italian mangiarebor. Esperanto manĝi Latin -ia Old French -iebor. Middle High German -īe German…