bit
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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.
Noun edit
bit (plural bits)
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value.
- a threepenny bit
- (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, 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".
- (now US) A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
- A quarter is two bits.
- 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.
- 1966, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 16:
- He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags.
- (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
- A small amount of something.
- 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.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Beanspiller”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 186:
- ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- 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.
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.
- A portion of something.
- 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.
- 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!
- T. Hook
- My young companion was a bit of a poet.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- 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.
- 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.
- (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
- Are you serious, or is this a bit?
- Short for bit part.
- She acted her bit in the opening scene.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.[1]
- The cutting iron of a plane.[2]
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (MLE) A gun.
- 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.
Synonyms edit
- (coin): coin, piece
- (small piece): morsel (of food), piece, scrap
- (portion): portion, share, segment
- (horse equipment): snaffle, pelham, kimberwicke
- (prison sentence): bid
- (gun): toy (MLE)
Antonyms edit
- (small amount of time): while (US)
Derived terms edit
- a bit
- a fair bit
- a little bit
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- a lot of bit
- behind the bit
- bergy bit
- bit and bit
- bit-banger
- bit between one's teeth
- bit bucket
- bit-bucket
- bit by bit
- bit-faker
- bit lifter
- bit of all right
- bit of alright
- bit of crumpet
- bit of fluff
- bit of homework
- bit of muslin
- bit of rough
- bit of skirt
- bit of stuff
- bit on the side
- bit part
- bit player
- bit role
- bits and bobs
- bits and pieces
- bit shank
- bitty
- blind bit
- blown to bits
- brace and bit
- cannon bit
- canon bit
- centre-bit
- chafe at the bit
- champ at the bit
- chicken bit
- chomp at the bit
- commit to the bit
- curb bit
- curb-bit
- devil's bit
- dog's dangly bits
- do one's bit
- drag bit
- every bit
- every little bit helps
- fall to bits
- fippenny bit
- Forstner bit
- German bit
- gouge bit
- hair of the dog that bit one
- itty-bitty
- key bit
- lip bit
- long bit
- modesty bit
- naughty bit
- nose bit
- not a bit, not one bit
- not a bit of it
- picky bits
- pod bit
- quill bit
- quite a bit
- rearing bit
- roller cone bit
- rollercone bit
- roller-cone bit
- rose bit
- sheep's-bit
- short bit
- threepenny-bit
- threepenny bit
- time after bit
- tit bit
- tongue-lolling bit
- two-bit
- wait-a-bit
- weather-bit
Related terms edit
- bits (“genitals”)
Translations edit
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Verb edit
bit (third-person singular simple present bits, present participle bitting, simple past and past participle bitted)
- (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
References edit
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Bit”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Bit”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
Etymology 2 edit
See bite
Verb edit
bit
- simple past of bite
- Your dog bit me!
- (informal in US, archaic in UK) past participle of bite, bitten
- I have been bit by your dog!
Adjective edit
bit (not comparable)
- (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[4]:
- 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[5], 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
Etymology 3 edit
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 edit
bit (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- Synonym: b
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- status bits on IRC
- permission bits in a file system
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- 2011 May 17, Lisa Grossman, “Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language”, in Wired Science[6], 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.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- 128-bit
- 16-bit
- 32-bit
- 64-bit
- 7-bit
- 8-bit
- bit array
- bit banging
- bit bashing
- bit-compressed
- bit-count integrity
- bit crusher
- bit decay
- bit depth
- bit-depth
- biter
- bit interval
- bitmap
- bit-map
- bit map
- bit nibbler
- bit plane
- bitplane
- bit rate
- bit rot
- bit shift
- bit slice
- bitstream
- bit string
- bit stuffing
- bit time
- bitwise
- bucky bit
- high bit
- high order bit
- parity bit
- quantum bit
- sign bit
- sticky bit
Translations edit
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ “Six Receive Honorary Degrees at Princeton Commencement”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], (please provide a date or year), archived from the original on 2002-02-09
- ^ (please provide the title of the work)[2], accessed 23 March 2007, archived from the original on 2007-03-03
- ^ Claude Shannon (July 1948), “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, in The Bell System Technical Journal,
Anagrams edit
Azerbaijani edit
Cyrillic | бит | |
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Abjad | بیت |
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitlər)
Declension edit
Declension of bit | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | bit |
bitlər | ||||||
definite accusative | biti |
bitləri | ||||||
dative | bitə |
bitlərə | ||||||
locative | bitdə |
bitlərdə | ||||||
ablative | bitdən |
bitlərdən | ||||||
definite genitive | bitin |
bitlərin |
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit m (plural bits)
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from English bit, from binary digit.
Noun edit
bit m inan
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle edit
bit
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ablaut of bijten.
Noun edit
bit n (plural bitten, diminutive bitje n)
- bit (for a working animal)
- bit (rotary cutting tool)
- mouthguard
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bit m (plural bits, diminutive bitje n)
French edit
Etymology edit
From English.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit m (plural bits)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “bit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit (plural bitek)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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 |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ 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
Further reading edit
- bit in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Indonesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
Etymology 2 edit
From Dutch biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.
Noun edit
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
- Beta vulgaris, common beet, beetroot, sugar beet, and chard.
Further reading edit
- “bit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Karaim edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *bït.
Noun edit
bit
References edit
- N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “bit”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN
Khalaj edit
Perso-Arabic | بیت |
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit (definite accusative bitü, plural bitlər)
Declension edit
References edit
- 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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit
References edit
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[7], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Lower Sorbian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bit
Nigerian Pidgin edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
bit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural biter, definite plural bitene)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From English bit (“binary digit”).
Noun edit
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or biter, definite plural bitene)
- a bit (binary digit)
References edit
- “bit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
- (piece): bætta (dialectal)
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bitar, definite plural bitane)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English bit (“binary digit”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or bitar, definit plural bitane)
- a bit (binary digit)
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit n (definite singular bitet, indefinite plural bit, definite plural bita)
Etymology 4 edit
From the first person singular present indicative of Old Norse bíta, and from the second person singular imperative Old Norse bíta.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bit
- inflection of bite:
References edit
- “bit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish edit
Verb edit
bit
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bit m inan
- (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0)
- bit informacji ― a bit of information
- bit po bicie ― bit by bit
Declension edit
The genitive singular form bita is overall less common.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bit m inan
- beat (instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music)
- (music) beat (rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians)
Declension edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed from English drill bit.
Noun edit
bit m inan
Declension edit
Etymology 4 edit
Borrowed from English big beat.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
bit m inan
- big beat (form of pop music having distorted breakbeats at a moderate tempo)
- Synonym: big-beat
- polski bit ― Polish big beat
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English bit.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit m (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit)
Synonyms edit
- Abbreviations: b
Coordinate terms edit
Related terms edit
- byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English bit or French bit.
Noun edit
bit m (plural biți)
Declension edit
Saterland Frisian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Conjunction edit
bit
Preposition edit
bit
Derived terms edit
References edit
Scots edit
Adjective edit
bit
- 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 edit
Etymology 1 edit
From bȉti (“to be”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bȋt f (Cyrillic spelling би̑т)
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bȉt m (Cyrillic spelling би̏т)
Declension edit
Slavomolisano edit
Etymology edit
From Serbo-Croatian biti, from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.
Verb edit
bit pf or impf
- to be
References edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit m (plural bits)
- bit (binary digit)
Further reading edit
- “bit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit c
- 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
- a bit
- Actionhjälten sprängde skurkarna i bitar
- The action hero blew the bad guys to pieces/bits
- 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].
- way, ways, distance (when more idiomatic)
- (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]
- a tune, a piece (song)
Usage notes edit
Del (“part”) is often more idiomatic when piece is interchangeable with part.
Declension edit
Declension of bit | ||||
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Nominative | bit | biten | bitar | bitarna |
Genitive | bits | bitens | bitars | bitarnas |
Derived terms edit
- bitsocker (“sugar in the form of sugar cubes, lump sugar”)
- i bitar
- pusselbit (“puzzle piece”)
- sockerbit (“sugar cube”)
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
From English bit, from binary digit.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit c
Declension edit
Declension of bit | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bit | biten | bitar | bitarna |
Genitive | bits | bitens | bitars | bitarnas |
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bit
- imperative of bita
References edit
Turkish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Ottoman Turkish بیت, بت, from Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Noun edit
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
Declension edit
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Definite accusative | biti | bitleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | bite | bitlere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | bitte | bitlerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | bitten | bitlerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | bitin | bitlerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- bit yeniği (fishy)
- bitli (lousy)
See also edit
- pire (flea)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English bit, abbreviation of binary digit.
Noun edit
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
Declension edit
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Nominative | bit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | biti | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | bit | bitler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | biti | bitleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | bite | bitlere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | bitte | bitlerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
bit
Turkmen edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bit), Turkish bit (“louse”), etc.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bit (definite accusative bidi, plural bitler)
Declension edit
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓit̚˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓit̚˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓɨt̚˧˧]
Audio (Ho Chi Minh City) (file)
Noun edit
bit
Zhuang edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pit˥/
- Tone numbers: bit7
- Hyphenation: bit
Etymology 1 edit
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).
Noun edit
bit (classifier duz, Sawndip forms 鴓 or 𱈶 or ⿰品鳥, 1957–1982 spelling bit)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bit (classifier gaiq, Sawndip forms 𣭈 or 𰚎, 1957–1982 spelling bit)
Classifier edit
bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)
- Classifier for sums of money and deals.
Etymology 3 edit
Classifier edit
bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)
- Classifier for cloth: bolt of