See mampus on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"title": "unknown"
},
"expansion": "unknown",
"name": "unk"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Origin unknown.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "mampus",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Dorset English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 33:",
"text": "No doubt a mampus of folk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large number."
],
"id": "en-mampus-en-noun-OBLzkUxC",
"qualifier": "Dorset",
"raw_glosses": [
"(British dialect, Dorset) A large number."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shedload"
},
{
"word": "lot"
}
],
"tags": [
"British",
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ms",
"3": "mampus",
"4": "",
"5": "to die, to perish, to be wiped out"
},
"expansion": "Malay mampus (“to die, to perish, to be wiped out”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Malay mampus (“to die, to perish, to be wiped out”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mampos",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "mampus (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Singapore English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "99 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 1 49 6 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "52 1 42 5 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "95 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Singlish",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1985, The Straits Times [newspaper]",
"text": "\"Oh, my wife is such a shrew. No wonder I can't stay with her!\" Mampus, you're finished!"
},
{
"ref": "1998, unknown author, Singapore Business, page 123:",
"text": "Luckily, there were not in US dollars. If they were, mampus.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008 June 29, Khairul Neezam, “khaaaa-zaaam!”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2013-02-07:",
"text": "Advertlets? 2 months still haven’t received?!?!?! OMG. I just cashed out mine like last week. MAMPUS. Like this December then get?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Muhammad Norsina Zalin, My Name is Sina: Hi…, [blog]",
"text": "Don't be [surprise] if I am using \"Sure mampus\", [s]o lembap or etc in this blog.."
},
{
"ref": "2010, Dream Academy, [advertisement]",
"text": "Mampus! The recipe was in my family for seven generations! Now my unborn grandchildren will never get to enjoy this sedap dish with their multi-racial friends."
},
{
"ref": "2013, William Gwee Thian Hock, A Baba Boyhood: Growing Up During World War 2, page 205 [book]",
"text": "Mampus lah. How can immature females be allowed to choose their own life partner?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"finished, wiped out, kaput."
],
"id": "en-mampus-en-adj-B4-geF2u",
"links": [
[
"kaput",
"kaput"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Singapore, informal) finished, wiped out, kaput."
],
"tags": [
"Singapore",
"informal",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mʌmpos/",
"tags": [
"Singapore"
]
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "ms",
"3": "mampus"
},
"expansion": "Malay mampus",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "poz-mly-pro",
"3": "*mampus"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayic *mampus",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*ma-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "hapus"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of hapus",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "su",
"2": "apus",
"t": "easily go out, extinguished (fire)"
},
"expansion": "Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Malay mampus, from Proto-Malayic *mampus, probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma- + *qa(m)pus (“come to an end, be destroyed”). Doublet of hapus. Compare Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mampus",
"name": "id-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"mam‧pus"
],
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Indonesian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Indonesian terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "42 1 49 6 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "52 1 42 5 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to die"
],
"id": "en-mampus-id-verb-L2Mli9fq",
"links": [
[
"die",
"die"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) to die"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mati"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈmampʊs]"
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-mly-pro",
"3": "*mampus"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayic *mampus",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*ma-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "hapus"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of hapus",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "su",
"2": "apus",
"t": "easily go out, extinguished (fire)"
},
"expansion": "Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Malayic *mampus, probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma- + *qa(m)pus (“come to an end, be destroyed”). Doublet of hapus. Compare Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ممڤوس",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"j": "ممڤوس"
},
"expansion": "mampus (Jawi spelling ممڤوس)",
"name": "ms-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "hidup"
}
],
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"to die, to perish"
],
"id": "en-mampus-ms-verb-liT0qmxX",
"links": [
[
"die",
"die"
],
[
"perish",
"perish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) to die, to perish"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mati"
},
{
"word": "meninggal dunia"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mampus/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ampus"
},
{
"rhymes": "-us"
},
{
"ipa": "[mämpʊs",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
},
{
"ipa": "-pos",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
},
{
"ipa": "-po̞s]",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-mly-pro",
"3": "*mampus"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayic *mampus",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*ma-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "hapus"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of hapus",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "su",
"2": "apus",
"t": "easily go out, extinguished (fire)"
},
"expansion": "Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Malayic *mampus, probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma- + *qa(m)pus (“come to an end, be destroyed”). Doublet of hapus. Compare Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mampus",
"name": "ms-interj"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "94 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Shit, my rocket burst a hole on Uncle Lee's lawnchair!",
"text": "Mampus aku, mercun aku meletup kena kat kerusi santai pak cik Lee!",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Expression of failure"
],
"id": "en-mampus-ms-intj-q6QWyncx",
"links": [
[
"failure",
"failure"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) Expression of failure"
],
"related": [
{
"english": "very, extremely",
"word": "nak mampus"
},
{
"english": "to get lost, go away",
"word": "pergi mampus"
}
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mampus/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ampus"
},
{
"rhymes": "-us"
},
{
"ipa": "[mämpʊs",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
},
{
"ipa": "-pos",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
},
{
"ipa": "-po̞s]",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
"English terms borrowed from Malay",
"English terms derived from Malay",
"English terms with unknown etymologies",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Singlish"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"title": "unknown"
},
"expansion": "unknown",
"name": "unk"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Origin unknown.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "mampus",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Dorset English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 33:",
"text": "No doubt a mampus of folk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large number."
],
"qualifier": "Dorset",
"raw_glosses": [
"(British dialect, Dorset) A large number."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shedload"
},
{
"word": "lot"
}
],
"tags": [
"British",
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms borrowed from Malay",
"English terms derived from Malay",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Singlish"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ms",
"3": "mampus",
"4": "",
"5": "to die, to perish, to be wiped out"
},
"expansion": "Malay mampus (“to die, to perish, to be wiped out”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Malay mampus (“to die, to perish, to be wiped out”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mampos",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "mampus (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Singapore English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1985, The Straits Times [newspaper]",
"text": "\"Oh, my wife is such a shrew. No wonder I can't stay with her!\" Mampus, you're finished!"
},
{
"ref": "1998, unknown author, Singapore Business, page 123:",
"text": "Luckily, there were not in US dollars. If they were, mampus.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008 June 29, Khairul Neezam, “khaaaa-zaaam!”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2013-02-07:",
"text": "Advertlets? 2 months still haven’t received?!?!?! OMG. I just cashed out mine like last week. MAMPUS. Like this December then get?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Muhammad Norsina Zalin, My Name is Sina: Hi…, [blog]",
"text": "Don't be [surprise] if I am using \"Sure mampus\", [s]o lembap or etc in this blog.."
},
{
"ref": "2010, Dream Academy, [advertisement]",
"text": "Mampus! The recipe was in my family for seven generations! Now my unborn grandchildren will never get to enjoy this sedap dish with their multi-racial friends."
},
{
"ref": "2013, William Gwee Thian Hock, A Baba Boyhood: Growing Up During World War 2, page 205 [book]",
"text": "Mampus lah. How can immature females be allowed to choose their own life partner?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"finished, wiped out, kaput."
],
"links": [
[
"kaput",
"kaput"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Singapore, informal) finished, wiped out, kaput."
],
"tags": [
"Singapore",
"informal",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mʌmpos/",
"tags": [
"Singapore"
]
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "ms",
"3": "mampus"
},
"expansion": "Malay mampus",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "poz-mly-pro",
"3": "*mampus"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayic *mampus",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*ma-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "hapus"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of hapus",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "su",
"2": "apus",
"t": "easily go out, extinguished (fire)"
},
"expansion": "Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Malay mampus, from Proto-Malayic *mampus, probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma- + *qa(m)pus (“come to an end, be destroyed”). Doublet of hapus. Compare Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mampus",
"name": "id-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"mam‧pus"
],
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Indonesian doublets",
"Indonesian entries with incorrect language header",
"Indonesian lemmas",
"Indonesian terms derived from Malay",
"Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Malayic",
"Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian",
"Indonesian terms inherited from Malay",
"Indonesian terms with redundant script codes",
"Indonesian verbs",
"Indonesian vulgarities",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to die"
],
"links": [
[
"die",
"die"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) to die"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mati"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈmampʊs]"
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
{
"categories": [
"Malay doublets",
"Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"Malay interjections",
"Malay lemmas",
"Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayic",
"Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian",
"Malay terms inherited from Proto-Malayic",
"Malay verbs",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Malay/ampus",
"Rhymes:Malay/us"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-mly-pro",
"3": "*mampus"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayic *mampus",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*ma-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "hapus"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of hapus",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "su",
"2": "apus",
"t": "easily go out, extinguished (fire)"
},
"expansion": "Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Malayic *mampus, probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma- + *qa(m)pus (“come to an end, be destroyed”). Doublet of hapus. Compare Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ممڤوس",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"j": "ممڤوس"
},
"expansion": "mampus (Jawi spelling ممڤوس)",
"name": "ms-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "hidup"
}
],
"categories": [
"Malay vulgarities"
],
"glosses": [
"to die, to perish"
],
"links": [
[
"die",
"die"
],
[
"perish",
"perish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) to die, to perish"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mati"
},
{
"word": "meninggal dunia"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mampus/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ampus"
},
{
"rhymes": "-us"
},
{
"ipa": "[mämpʊs",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
},
{
"ipa": "-pos",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
},
{
"ipa": "-po̞s]",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
{
"categories": [
"Malay doublets",
"Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"Malay interjections",
"Malay lemmas",
"Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayic",
"Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian",
"Malay terms inherited from Proto-Malayic",
"Malay verbs",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Malay/ampus",
"Rhymes:Malay/us"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-mly-pro",
"3": "*mampus"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayic *mampus",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*ma-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "hapus"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of hapus",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "su",
"2": "apus",
"t": "easily go out, extinguished (fire)"
},
"expansion": "Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Malayic *mampus, probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma- + *qa(m)pus (“come to an end, be destroyed”). Doublet of hapus. Compare Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mampus",
"name": "ms-interj"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "intj",
"related": [
{
"english": "very, extremely",
"word": "nak mampus"
},
{
"english": "to get lost, go away",
"word": "pergi mampus"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Malay slang",
"Malay terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Shit, my rocket burst a hole on Uncle Lee's lawnchair!",
"text": "Mampus aku, mercun aku meletup kena kat kerusi santai pak cik Lee!",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Expression of failure"
],
"links": [
[
"failure",
"failure"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) Expression of failure"
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mampus/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ampus"
},
{
"rhymes": "-us"
},
{
"ipa": "[mämpʊs",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
},
{
"ipa": "-pos",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
},
{
"ipa": "-po̞s]",
"note": "Johor-Riau"
}
],
"word": "mampus"
}
Download raw JSONL data for mampus meaning in All languages combined (9.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.