bibit

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bibit, Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦶꦧꦶꦠ꧀ (bibit, “seed”), ꦮꦶꦮꦶꦠ꧀ (wiwit, “beginning”), from Old Javanese wwit, wwīt, wit (“origin, beginning; base, foundation; stem, tree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibɪt̚/
• Rhymes: -bɪt, -ɪt, -t
• Hyphenation: bi‧bit

Noun

bibit (plural bibit-bibit, first-person possessive bibitku, second-person possessive bibitmu, third-person possessive bibitnya)

1. seedling
   1. (botany) A young plant grown from seed.
   2. Any young plant, especially:
      1. one grown in a nursery for transplanting.
      2. a tree smaller than a sapling.
2. (Internet, file sharing) seeder, a person connected to a peer-to-peer network who has a complete or partial copy of a given file and makes it available for downloading.

Synonyms

• (botany): semai

Derived terms

• dibibit
• dibibitkan
• membibit
• membibitkan
• pembibit
• pembibitan

 

• bibit buwit
• bibit unggul

 

Related terms

• biji
• benih

Further reading

• “bibit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Verb

bibit

1. third-person singular present/perfect active indicative of bibō