babit

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ba‧bit

Noun

babit

  1. a kind of diving weight

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.bɪt/
  • Rhymes: -bɪt
  • Hyphenation: ba‧bit

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay دبابيتکن (babit).

Root

babit

  1. (archaic) to involve, to implicate
Derived terms
  • dibabitkan
  • membabitkan
  • terbabit

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English babbitt.

Noun

babit (plural babit-babit)

  1. (metallurgy) babbitt: a soft white alloy of variable composition (for example, nine parts of tin to one of copper, or fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦧꦶꦠ꧀ (babit, “to swing, to slash”).

Verb

babit

  1. to swing, to slash

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

babit

  1. romanization of ꦧꦧꦶꦠ꧀

Occitan

Noun

babit m (Gascony)

  1. alternative form of pabiou (“candlewick”)

References

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