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bit

See also: Bit, B.I.T., -bit-, bít, bịt, and bɨt
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English

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snaffle bit (1)
 
drill bit (2)
 
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Pronunciation

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  • enPR: bĭt, IPA(key): /bɪt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

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From Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). More at bite.

cognates

Cognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss and Bissen, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti.

Noun

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bit (plural bits)

  2. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
    Synonyms: kimberwicke, pelham, snaffle
    A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
  3. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
  4. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
    Synonyms: coin, piece
    1. (dated, British) A coin of a specified value.
      a threepenny bit
    3. (historical, US and Canada) A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
      A quarter is two bits.
    4. (obsolete, US and Canada) A coin of a value similar but not equal to this, in particular the ‘short bit’, i.e. the ten-cent piece or dime.
      • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 10, in Klee Wyck‎[3]:
        The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents. The Indians called this coin “a Bit”. Our next coin, double in buying power and in size, was a twenty-five cent piece and this the Indians called “Two Bits”.
    5. (historical) A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
      • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 6, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
        I trusted to the Lord to be with me; and at one of our trips to St. Eustatia, a Dutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when I came to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence.
    6. (historical) A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
  5. A small amount of something.
    Synonyms: (of food) morsel, piece, scrap; see also Thesaurus:modicum
    There were bits of paper all over the floor.
    Does your leg still hurt? —Just a bit now.
    I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours.
  6. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
    Synonyms: instant, jiffy, tick; see also Thesaurus:moment
    Antonyms: age, (US) while; see also Thesaurus:eon
    I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.
    He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.
  7. (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
    The movie lasted for two and a bit hours.
  8. (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
    Synonym: split-second
    The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.
  9. A portion of something.
    Synonyms: portion, share, segment; see also Thesaurus:piece
    I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
    • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
      Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
  10. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
    Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
    • 1835', Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney
      My young companion was a bit of a poet.
  11. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
    Synonym: bid
    • 1904, The Anamosa prison press, volume 7, Iowa. Colony of Detention at Anamosa:
      Had it not been for the influence of Mrs. Booth and Hope Hall I should still be grafting or doing a bit in some stir
    • 1916, Thomas Mott Osborne. Warden, Sing Sing Prison, N. Y., “Prison Reform”, in The Journal of sociologic medicine, volume 17, page 407:
      Before doing that I am going to tell you what was the result of my own incarceration, because I presume it may not be a secret to you, that I have done a "bit" myself, not the "bit" which the prosecuting attorney was so anxious to have me do.
    • 1994, Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, page 158:
      Chino didn't make me think of Dachau or that notorious joint in Angola, Louisiana, where a brother who had done a bit there told me how they used to cut the grass on the front lawn with their fingernails.
    • 2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain management:
      Not counting the days—that's okay for a county-time slap, but it'll make you crazy if you've got years to go on a felony bit.
  12. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
    His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
  13. (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
    Synonyms: shaggy dog story, wind up; see also Thesaurus:joke
    Are you serious, or is this a bit?
    • 2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 3:36 from the start, in Coming Out‎[4], archived from the original on 14 May 2024:
      Also, I'm bi. I like dudes! ...That's weird to say. Everything I say feels like a bit now, god dammit.
  14. Short for bit part.
    She acted her bit in the opening scene.
  16. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.[1]
  17. The cutting iron of a plane.[2]
  18. The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
  19. (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
  20. (MLE) A gun.
    Synonyms: (MLE) skeng, toy, wap; see also Thesaurus:firearm
    • 2013 December 23, Stephen Reynolds, 46:53 from the start, in Stephen Reynolds, director, Vendetta (film), spoken by Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer):
      Jimmy: I need to get my hands on some bits. If you’re still in the business.
      Ronnie (played by Nick Nevern): Oi!
      Trojan (played by Jean-Paul Van Cauwelaert): Ronnie.
      […]
      Trojan: Now that is a SIG Sauer P226.
Derived terms
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  • bits (“genitals”)
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Verb

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bit (third-person singular simple present bits, present participle bitting, simple past and past participle bitted)

  1. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).

References

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  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Bit”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
  2. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Bit”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

Etymology 2

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See bite

Verb

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bit

  1. simple past of bite
    Your dog bit me!
  2. (informal in US, archaic in UK) past participle of bite, bitten
    I have been bit by your dog!

Adjective

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bit (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly in combination) Having been bitten.
    Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.
    • 1984 July, Field & Stream, volume 89, number 3, page 24:
      Fortunately, someone who gets skeeter-bit this much may develop an immunity to the skeeter's saliva
    • 1992, Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters‎[5]:
      Only the year before, the conjure man had brought in the Jackson County madstone, from way over in Illinois, for a white peddler that had been dog-bit, and the man went ahead and died just the same
    • 1998, Adele Griffin, Rainy Season‎[6], page 121:
      He will not — he'll tell you not to be loco, climbing up trees late at night when you'll get bug-bit to death plus you can't see anything
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Etymology 3

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Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”.[1][2] First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon.[3] Compare byte and nybble, with similar food associations.

Noun

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bit (plural bits)

  2. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
  4. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
    Synonym: b
  6. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
    status bits on IRC
    permission bits in a file system
  7. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
    • 2011 May 17, Lisa Grossman, “Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language”, in Wired Science‎[7], retrieved 2012-09-26:
      The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure.
      But strangely, the difference in entropy between the original, ordered text and the randomly scrambled text was constant across languages. This difference is a way to measure the amount of information encoded in word order, Montemurro says. The amount of information lost when they scrambled the text was about 3.5 bits per word.
  8. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
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References

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  1. ^ “Six Receive Honorary Degrees at Princeton Commencement”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], (Can we date this quote?), archived from the original on 2002-02-09
  2. ^ (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[2], 2007 March 23 (last accessed), archived from the original on 3 March 2007
  3. ^ Claude Shannon (1948 July) “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, in The Bell System Technical Journal, →DOI

Anagrams

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Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic бит
Abjad بیت

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitlər)

  1. louse

Declension

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    Declension of bit
singular plural
nominative bit
 bitlər
definite accusative biti
 bitləri
dative bitə
 bitlərə
locative bitdə
 bitlərdə
ablative bitdən
 bitlərdən
definite genitive bitin
 bitlərin
    Possessive forms of bit
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bitim bitlərim
sənin (“your”) bitin bitlərin
onun (“his/her/its”) biti bitləri
bizim (“our”) bitimiz bitlərimiz
sizin (“your”) bitiniz bitləriniz
onların (“their”) biti or bitləri bitləri
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bitimi bitlərimi
sənin (“your”) bitini bitlərini
onun (“his/her/its”) bitini bitlərini
bizim (“our”) bitimizi bitlərimizi
sizin (“your”) bitinizi bitlərinizi
onların (“their”) bitini or bitlərini bitlərini
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bitimə bitlərimə
sənin (“your”) bitinə bitlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”) bitinə bitlərinə
bizim (“our”) bitimizə bitlərimizə
sizin (“your”) bitinizə bitlərinizə
onların (“their”) bitinə or bitlərinə bitlərinə
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bitimdə bitlərimdə
sənin (“your”) bitində bitlərində
onun (“his/her/its”) bitində bitlərində
bizim (“our”) bitimizdə bitlərimizdə
sizin (“your”) bitinizdə bitlərinizdə
onların (“their”) bitində or bitlərində bitlərində
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bitimdən bitlərimdən
sənin (“your”) bitindən bitlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”) bitindən bitlərindən
bizim (“our”) bitimizdən bitlərimizdən
sizin (“your”) bitinizdən bitlərinizdən
onların (“their”) bitindən or bitlərindən bitlərindən
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bitimin bitlərimin
sənin (“your”) bitinin bitlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”) bitinin bitlərinin
bizim (“our”) bitimizin bitlərimizin
sizin (“your”) bitinizin bitlərinizin
onların (“their”) bitinin or bitlərinin bitlərinin

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bit m (plural bits)

  1. (computing) bit

Czech

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English bit, from binary digit.

Noun

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bit m inan

  1. (computing) bit
Declension
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Declension of bit (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative bit bity
genitive bitu bitů
dative bitu bitům
accusative bit bity
vocative bite bity
locative bitu bitech
instrumental bitem bity
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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bit

  1. masculine singular passive participle of bít

Further reading

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  • “bit”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • “bit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • bit in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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Ablaut of bijten.

Noun

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bit n (plural bitten, diminutive bitje n)

  1. bit (for a working animal)
  2. bit (rotary cutting tool)
  3. mouthguard

Etymology 2

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From English bit.

Noun

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bit m (plural bits, diminutive bitje n)

  1. bit (binary digit)
  2. bit (unit of storage)
  3. bit (datum with two possible values)

French

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Etymology

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From English.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bit m (plural bits)

  1. (computing) bit

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From English bit.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbit]
  • Hyphenation: bit
  • Rhymes: -it

Noun

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bit (plural bitek)

  1. (computing) bit (binary digit)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative bit bitek
accusative bitet biteket
dative bitnek biteknek
instrumental bittel bitekkel
causal-final bitért bitekért
translative bitté bitekké
terminative bitig bitekig
essive-formal bitként bitekként
essive-modal — —
inessive bitben bitekben
superessive biten biteken
adessive bitnél biteknél
illative bitbe bitekbe
sublative bitre bitekre
allative bithez bitekhez
elative bitből bitekből
delative bitről bitekről
ablative bittől bitektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		bité biteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		bitéi bitekéi
Possessive forms of bit
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bitem bitjeim
2nd person sing. bited bitjeid
3rd person sing. bitje bitjei
1st person plural bitünk bitjeink
2nd person plural bitetek bitjeitek
3rd person plural bitjük bitjeik

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References

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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  • bit in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbɪt]
  • Hyphenation: bit

Etymology 1

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From English bit (“binary digit”), from Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).

Noun

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bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)

  1. (computing) bit, smallest unit of storage.

Etymology 2

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From Dutch biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

Noun

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bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)

  1. Beta vulgaris, common beet, beetroot, sugar beet, and chard.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bit, from binary digit.

Noun

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bit m (invariable)

  1. (computing) bit, smallest unit of storage.

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  1. ^ bit in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Karaim

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *bït.

Noun

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bit

  1. louse

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  • N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “bit”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Khalaj

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Perso-Arabic بیت

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [bɪt], [bi(ˑ)t], [biːt]
  • (Xarrâbî) IPA(key): [bɪt], [bit]

Noun

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bit (definite accusative bitü, plural bitlər)

  1. louse

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Declension of bit
singular plural
nominative bit bitlər
genitive bitü̂ñ bitlərü̂ñ
dative bitkə bitlərkə
definite accusative bitü bitlərü
locative bitçə bitlərçə
ablative bitdə bitlərdə
instrumental bitlə bitlərlə
equative bitvâra bitlərvâra

References

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  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1988) Grammatik des Chaladsch [Grammar of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, →OCLC

Lashi

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Noun

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bit

  1. sun

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  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[8], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Lower Sorbian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bit

  1. supine of biś

Nigerian Pidgin

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Etymology

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From English beat.

Verb

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bit

  1. beat

North Frisian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian bīta.

Verb

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bit

  1. (Sylt) to bite

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bit (Sylt dialect)
infinitive I bit
infinitive II (tö) biten
past participle beten
imperative bit
  present past
1st singular bit beet
2nd singular betst beetst
3rd singular bet beet
plural / dual bit beet
  perfect pluperfect
1st singular haa beten her beten
2nd singular heest beten herst beten
3rd singular heer beten her beten
plural / dual haa beten her beten
  future (skel) future (wel)
1st singular skel bit wel bit
2nd singular sket bit wet bit
3rd singular skel bit wel bit
plural / dual skel bit wel bit

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse biti.

Noun

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bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural biter, definite plural bitene)

  1. a bit, piece (of something)
  2. a bite, mouthful (of food)
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Etymology 2

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From English bit (“binary digit”).

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bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or biter, definite plural bitene)

  1. a bit (binary digit)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse.

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Noun

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bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bitar, definite plural bitane)

  1. a bit, piece (of something)
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English bit (“binary digit”).

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bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or bitar, definit plural bitane)

  1. a bit (binary digit)

Etymology 3

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Inherited from Old Norse bit.

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bit n (definite singular bitet, indefinite plural bit, definite plural bita)

  1. a bite (e.g. insect bite, dog bite)
  2. a bite, mouthful (of food)

Etymology 4

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From the first person singular present indicative of Old Norse bíta, and from the second person singular imperative Old Norse bíta.

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bit

  1. inflection of bite:
    1. present
    2. imperative

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Old English

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Verb

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bīt

  1. imperative singular of bītan

Old Irish

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Verb

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bit

  1. third-person plural future of is

Polish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English bit.

Noun

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bit m inan (related adjective bitowy)

  1. (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0)
    bit informacji ― a bit of information
    bit po bicie ― bit by bit
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Declension of bit
singular plural
nominative bit bity
genitive bit/bita bitów
dative bitowi bitom
accusative bit bity
instrumental bitem bitami
locative bicie bitach
vocative bicie bity
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nouns

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English beat.

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bit m inan

  1. beat (instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music)
  2. (music) beat (rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians)
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Declension of bit
singular plural
nominative bit bity
genitive bitu bitów
dative bitowi bitom
accusative bit bity
instrumental bitem bitami
locative bicie bitach
vocative bicie bity

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from English drill bit.

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bit m inan

  1. drill bit
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Declension of bit
singular plural
nominative bit bity
genitive bitu bitów
dative bitowi bitom
accusative bit bity
instrumental bitem bitami
locative bicie bitach
vocative bicie bity

Etymology 4

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Borrowed from English big beat.

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Noun

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bit m inan

  1. big beat (form of pop music having distorted breakbeats at a moderate tempo)
    Synonym: big-beat
    polski bit ― Polish big beat
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Declension of bit
singular
nominative bit
genitive bitu
dative bitowi
accusative bit
instrumental bitem
locative bicie
vocative bicie

Further reading

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  • bit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bit.

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Noun

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bit m (plural bits)

  1. (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit)

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  • Abbreviations: b

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  • byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bit or French bit.

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bit m (plural biți)

  1. (computing) bit

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bit bitul biți biții
genitive-dative bit bitului biți biților
vocative bitule biților

Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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Related to German bis.

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Conjunction

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bit

  1. until

Preposition

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bit

  1. until, to

Derived terms

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References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “bit”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Scots

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Adjective

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bit

  1. Little.
    • 1889, Jessup Whitehead, The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering, page 439:
      A bit wee lambie
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      He laid a hundred guineas with the laird of Slofferfield that he would drive four horses through the Slofferfield loch, and in the prank he had his bit chariot dung to pieces and a good mare killed.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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From bȉti (“to be”).

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Noun

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bȋt f (Cyrillic spelling би̑т)

  1. essence
  2. point, meaning
Declension
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Declension of bit
singular plural
nominative bȋt biti
genitive biti bítī
dative biti bitima
accusative bit biti
vocative biti biti
locative biti bitima
instrumental biti bitima

Further reading

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  • “bit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Etymology 2

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From English bit.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bȉt m (Cyrillic spelling би̏т)

  1. (computing) bit
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Declension of bit
singular plural
nominative bȉt bìtovi
genitive bita bitova
dative bitu bitovima
accusative bit bitove
vocative bite bitovi
locative bitu bitovima
instrumental bitom bitovima

Further reading

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  • “bit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slavomolisano

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Etymology

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From Serbo-Croatian biti, from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

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bit pf or impf

  1. to be

References

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  • Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 409–412

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bit.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbit/ [ˈbit̪]
  • Rhymes: -it
  • Syllabification: bit

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bit m (plural bits)

  1. bit (binary digit)

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Swedish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse biti.

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Noun

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bit c

  1. a piece (forming a part of some whole)
    en pusselbit
    a puzzle piece
    en tårtbit / en bit tårta [note that there is no preposition]
    a piece of cake (not an idiom in Swedish – see lätt som en plätt)
    Jag åt tre bitar McNuggets
    I ate three pieces of McNuggets
    Koppen föll i golvet och gick i tusen bitar
    The cup fell to the floor and broke [went] into a thousand pieces
    torskfilé i bitar
    cod fillet cut into pieces
    1. a bit
      Actionhjälten sprängde skurkarna i bitar
      The action hero blew the bad guys to pieces/bits
  2. a bit (certain (not insignificant) distance)
    Den ligger en bit väster om byn
    It lies a bit west of the village
    Huset ligger en bit längre fram
    The house is a bit further ahead
    Det simmar en svan en bit ut på sjön
    There is a swan swimming a bit out on the lake
    Vi följde med henne en bit på vägen
    We accompanied her part of the way [We followed with her a bit on the way (to where she was going)]
    Det är en bra bit till Säffle
    It's quite a drive to Säffle ["It is a good bit to Säffle" – "bra bit" is a common collocation]
    Ta på dig vandringskängorna. Det är en bit att gå.
    Put on your hiking boots. It's a bit of a walk [a bit (implied long) to walk].
    1. way, ways, distance (when more idiomatic)
    2. (figuratively) a bit (of time)
      Vi planerar att skaffa katt en bit längre fram [can also be expressed as "lite längre fram"]
      We're planning to get a cat a bit later on ["further ahead" (longer forth) – still thought of as a distance]
  3. a tune, a piece (song)
    Synonyms: låt, sång
    en svängig bit
    a swinging tune
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Del (“part”) is often more idiomatic when piece is interchangeable with part.

Declension
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Declension of bit
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bit bits
definite biten bitens
plural indefinite bitar bitars
definite bitarna bitarnas
Derived terms
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  • del (“part”)
  • stycke (piece that is a fragment of something in some sense – compare stycka)

Etymology 2

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From English bit, from binary digit.

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Noun

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bit c

  1. (computing) a bit
    ett 64-bitars operativsystem
    a 64-bit [bits'] operating system
Declension
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Declension of bit
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bit bits
definite biten bitens
plural indefinite bitar bitars
definite bitarna bitarnas

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bit

  1. imperative of bita

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Turkish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Ottoman Turkish بیت, بت, from Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).

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bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)

  1. (zoology) louse
  2. Ellipsis of bitpazarı (“flea market”).
    Hırkam, ee, bitten.
    My cardigan, I bought it from uh... flea market.
Declension
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Inflection
Nominative bit
Definite accusative biti
Singular Plural
Nominative bit bitler
Definite accusative biti bitleri
Dative bite bitlere
Locative bitte bitlerde
Ablative bitten bitlerden
Genitive bitin bitlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitim bitlerim
2nd singular bitin bitlerin
3rd singular biti bitleri
1st plural bitimiz bitlerimiz
2nd plural bitiniz bitleriniz
3rd plural bitleri bitleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitimi bitlerimi
2nd singular bitini bitlerini
3rd singular bitini bitlerini
1st plural bitimizi bitlerimizi
2nd plural bitinizi bitlerinizi
3rd plural bitlerini bitlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitime bitlerime
2nd singular bitine bitlerine
3rd singular bitine bitlerine
1st plural bitimize bitlerimize
2nd plural bitinize bitlerinize
3rd plural bitlerine bitlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitimde bitlerimde
2nd singular bitinde bitlerinde
3rd singular bitinde bitlerinde
1st plural bitimizde bitlerimizde
2nd plural bitinizde bitlerinizde
3rd plural bitlerinde bitlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitimden bitlerimden
2nd singular bitinden bitlerinden
3rd singular bitinden bitlerinden
1st plural bitimizden bitlerimizden
2nd plural bitinizden bitlerinizden
3rd plural bitlerinden bitlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular bitimin bitlerimin
2nd singular bitinin bitlerinin
3rd singular bitinin bitlerinin
1st plural bitimizin bitlerimizin
2nd plural bitinizin bitlerinizin
3rd plural bitlerinin bitlerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular bitim bitlerim
2nd singular bitsin bitlersin
3rd singular bit
bittir 		bitler
bitlerdir
1st plural bitiz bitleriz
2nd plural bitsiniz bitlersiniz
3rd plural bitler bitlerdir
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English bit, abbreviation of binary digit.

Noun

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bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)

  1. (computing) bit
Declension
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Inflection
Nominative bit
Definite accusative biti
Singular Plural
Nominative bit bitler
Definite accusative biti bitleri
Dative bite bitlere
Locative bitte bitlerde
Ablative bitten bitlerden
Genitive bitin bitlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitim bitlerim
2nd singular bitin bitlerin
3rd singular biti bitleri
1st plural bitimiz bitlerimiz
2nd plural bitiniz bitleriniz
3rd plural bitleri bitleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitimi bitlerimi
2nd singular bitini bitlerini
3rd singular bitini bitlerini
1st plural bitimizi bitlerimizi
2nd plural bitinizi bitlerinizi
3rd plural bitlerini bitlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitime bitlerime
2nd singular bitine bitlerine
3rd singular bitine bitlerine
1st plural bitimize bitlerimize
2nd plural bitinize bitlerinize
3rd plural bitlerine bitlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitimde bitlerimde
2nd singular bitinde bitlerinde
3rd singular bitinde bitlerinde
1st plural bitimizde bitlerimizde
2nd plural bitinizde bitlerinizde
3rd plural bitlerinde bitlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular bitimden bitlerimden
2nd singular bitinden bitlerinden
3rd singular bitinden bitlerinden
1st plural bitimizden bitlerimizden
2nd plural bitinizden bitlerinizden
3rd plural bitlerinden bitlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular bitimin bitlerimin
2nd singular bitinin bitlerinin
3rd singular bitinin bitlerinin
1st plural bitimizin bitlerimizin
2nd plural bitinizin bitlerinizin
3rd plural bitlerinin bitlerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular bitim bitlerim
2nd singular bitsin bitlersin
3rd singular bit
bittir 		bitler
bitlerdir
1st plural bitiz bitleriz
2nd plural bitsiniz bitlersiniz
3rd plural bitler bitlerdir

Etymology 3

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Verb

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bit

  1. second-person singular imperative of bitmek

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bit), Turkish bit (“louse”), etc.

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Noun

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bit (definite accusative bidi, plural bitler)

  1. (zoology) louse

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Declension of bit
singular plural
nominative bit bitler
accusative bidi bitleri
genitive bidiň bitleriň
dative bide bitlere
locative bitde bitlerde
ablative bitden bitlerden

Further reading

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  • “bit” in Enedilim.com

Vietnamese

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Noun

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bit

  1. (computing) bit

Zhuang

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Tai *pitᴰ (“duck”). Cognate with Thai เป็ด (bpèt), Lao ເປັດ (pet), Lü ᦵᦔᧆ (ṗed), Tai Dam ꪹꪜꪸꪒ, Shan ပဵတ်း (páet), Ahom 𑜆𑜢𑜄𑜫 (pit), Bouyei bidt, Saek ปิ๊ด. Compare Old Chinese 鴄 (OC *pʰid).

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bit (classifier duz, Sawndip forms 鴓 or 𱈶 or ⿰品鳥, 1957–1982 spelling bit)

  1. duck
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Etymology 2

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From Chinese 筆 (MC pit).

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bit (classifier gaiq, Sawndip forms 𣭈 or 𰚎, 1957–1982 spelling bit)

  1. pen; pencil; writing implement

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bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)

  1. Classifier for sums of money and deals.

Etymology 3

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From Chinese 匹 (MC phjit).

Classifier

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bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)

  1. Classifier for cloth: bolt of
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