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Cebuano
Pronunciation
Noun
babit
- 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
- (archaic) to involve, to implicate
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English babbitt.
Noun
babit (plural babit-babit)
- (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
- to swing, to slash.
Further reading
Javanese
Romanization
babit
- Romanization of ꦧꦧꦶꦠ꧀
Occitan
Noun
babit m (Gascony)
- Alternative form of pabiou (“candlewick”)
References