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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 babit.
Root
babit
- (archaic) to involve, to implicate
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English babbitt.
Noun
babit (plural babit-babit, first-person possessive babitku, second-person possessive babitmu, third-person possessive babitnya)
- (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.
Further reading
Occitan
Noun
babit m (Gascony)
- Alternative form of pabiou (“candlewick”)
References