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Hebrew
Etymology
From English bit, from binary digit.
Noun
בִּיט • (bit) m (plural indefinite בִּיטִים)
- bit (binary digit)
Synonyms
Yiddish
Etymology
From Middle High German büte, büten, from Old High German butin, butina, from Latin butina, which is perhaps related to buttis (“barrel, cask”). Compare German Bütte, Bütt. Computing sense derives from English bit.
Noun
ביט • (bit) m, plural ביטן (bitn)
- basin, tub
- Synonyms: באַסיין (baseyn), בעקן (bekn)
- pail
- Synonyms: צעבער (tseber), באַליע (balye)
- vat
- (computing) bit (unit of storage in digital computer)
- Synonym: איינסל (eynsl)
References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Butte”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “basin”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN