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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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
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: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.
- (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.
- (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.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- 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
Antonyms
- (small amount of time): while (US)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
coin of a specified value
— see coin
ten-cent piece
— see dime
coin worth about 12½ cents; sum of 12½ cents
small amount of something
— see also a little
- Armenian: կտոր (hy) (ktor)
- Bulgarian: късче (bg) n (kǎsče), частица (bg) (častica)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: mica (ca) f, poquet m
- Chamicuro: naspejka
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: kousek (cs) m, troška f
- Dutch: beetje (nl), hapje (nl) (of food)
- Esperanto: peco, iometa
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: pala (fi), palanen (fi); osa (fi), osuus (fi) (small amount of work)
- French: petit morceau m, peu (fr) m
- German: Bisschen (de) n, Wenig n, Stück (de) n, Stückchen (de) n, Happen (de) m (of food)
- Irish: ruainne m
- Italian: poco (it) m, poca (it) f, pezzetto (it) m, pezzettino m
- Japanese: ちょっと (ja) (chotto), 少々 (ja) (しょうしょう, shōshō), 少し (ja) (すこし, sukoshi)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 작은 조각 (jageun jogak), 도막 (ko) (domak)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: frustum n, morsum n, pauxillum n, tantillum n
- Macedonian: парче n (parče), парченце n (parčence), трошка f (troška)
- Maori: pīhi, maramara
- Negerhollands: bitši
- Norman: morcé m (Jersey, Guernsey)
- Norwegian: bit (no) m
- Plautdietsch: Tips m, Bät n
- Polish: kawałek (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: bocado (pt) m, pedaço (pt) m, porção (pt) f, pitada (pt)
- Romanian: bucată (ro)
- Russian: кусо́к (ru) m (kusók)
- Scottish Gaelic: bìdeag f, criomag f, mìr m, car (gd) m
- Slovak: kúsok, úlomok, časť (sk)
- Slovene: košček m
- Swahili: charaza (sw)
- Swedish: bit (sv) c
- Telugu: ముక్క (te) (mukka), తుంపు (te) (tumpu), తునక (te) (tunaka)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: ཅུང་ཙམ (cung tsam), ཅུང་ཟད (cung zad), ཅུང་ཟད་ཙམ (cung zad tsam)
- Turkish: azıcık (tr), biraz (tr), gıdım (tr), parça (tr), parçacık (tr), zerre (tr)
- Vietnamese: tí (vi)
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sports: fraction of a second
portion
- Bulgarian: парче (bg) n (parče)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: kousek (cs) m, dílek (cs) m
- Dutch: stuk (nl) n
- Finnish: pala (fi), palanen (fi); annos (fi)
- French: part (fr) f
- Hindi: टुकड़ा m (ṭukṛā)
- Italian: parte (it) f, porzione (it) f
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 조금 (ko) (jogeum), 약간 (ko) (yakgan)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: парче n (parče)
- Maori: inati, pīhi, tiri
- Norwegian: bit (no) m
- Polish: kawałek (pl) m inan, porcja (pl) f
- Portuguese: bocado (pt) m, pedaço (pt) m, porção (pt) f
- Russian: кусо́к (ru) m (kusók)
- Scottish Gaelic: bìdeag f, criomag f, mìr m
- Slovak: kúsok, časť (sk)
- Spanish: porción (es)
- Swahili: charaza (sw)
- Swedish: bit (sv) c, lite (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: parça (tr)
- Vietnamese: phần (vi)
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somewhat; something, but not very great
— see also a bit
excerpt from show repertoire
part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers
Translations to be checked
Verb
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
- ^ Edward H Knight (1877), “Bit”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. , volume I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton , →OCLC.
- ^ Edward H Knight (1877), “Bit”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. , volume I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton , →OCLC.
Etymology 2
See bite
Verb
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
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: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, 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
Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”. First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon. Compare byte and nybble, with similar food associations.
Noun
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, 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
Derived terms
Translations
computing: smallest unit of storage
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: բիթ (hy) (bitʿ)
- Bulgarian: бит (bg) m (bit)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 位元 (wai6 jyun4), 二進制位/二进制位 (ji6 zeon3 zai3 wai6-2), 二進制位元/二进制位元 (ji6 zeon3 zai3 wai6 jyun4)
- Hokkien: 位元 (zh-min-nan) (ūi-gôan)
- Mandarin: 位 (zh) (wèi), 比特 (zh) (bǐtè), 位元 (zh) (wèiyuán), 二進位元/二进位元 (èrjìn wèiyuán) (Taiwan), 二進制位元/二进制位元 (èrjìnzhì wèiyuán) (Taiwan), 二進制數字/二进制数字 (èrjìnzhì shùzì), 二進制位/二进制位 (èrjìnzhì wèi)
- Czech: bit (cs) m
- Dutch: bit (nl) m
- Esperanto: bito, duumo
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: bitti (fi)
- Georgian: ბიტი (biṭi)
- German: Bit (de) n
- Greek: μπιτ (el) n (bit), δυφίο (el) n (dyfío), δυαδικό ψηφίο (el) n (dyadikó psifío)
- Hebrew: ביט (he) m (bit)
- Hungarian: bit (hu)
- Icelandic: biti, tvíundatölustafur
- Japanese: ビット (ja) (bitto)
- Korean: 비트 (biteu)
- Latvian: bits m
- Lithuanian: bitas (lt) m
- Macedonian: бит m (bit)
- Polish: bit (pl) m
- Portuguese: bit (pt) m
- Romanian: bit (ro) m
- Russian: бит (ru) m (bit)
- Slovak: bit
- Slovene: bit m
- Spanish: binio m
- Swahili: charaza (sw)
- Swedish: bit (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: bit (tr)
- Vietnamese: bit (vi)
- Welsh: did m
- Yiddish: איינסל n (eynsl), ביט m (bit)
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Translations to be checked
See also
References
- ^ “Six Receive Honorary Degrees at Princeton Commencement”, in (please provide the title of the work), (please provide a date or year), archived from the original on 2002-02-09
- ^ (please provide the title of the work), 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, →DOI
Anagrams
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitlər)
- louse
Declension
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- (computing) bit
Czech
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English bit, from binary digit.
Noun
bit m inan
- (computing) bit
Declension
Declension of bit (hard masculine inanimate)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
bit
- masculine singular passive participle of bít
Further reading
- bit in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
- bit in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- bit in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Ablaut of bijten.
Noun
bit n (plural bitten, diminutive bitje n)
- bit (for a working animal)
- bit (rotary cutting tool)
- mouthguard
Etymology 2
From English bit.
Noun
bit m (plural bits, diminutive bitje n)
- bit (binary digit)
- bit (unit of storage)
- bit (datum with two possible values)
French
Etymology
From English.
Pronunciation
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- (computing) bit
Derived terms
Further reading
Hungarian
Etymology
From English bit.
Pronunciation
Noun
bit (plural bitek)
- (computing) bit (binary digit)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- 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
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
- (computing) bit, smallest unit of storage.
Etymology 2
From Dutch biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.
Noun
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
- Beta vulgaris, common beet, beetroot, sugar beet, and chard.
Further reading
Karaim
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bït.
Noun
bit
- louse
References
- N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “bit”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN
Khalaj
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bit (definite accusative bitü, plural bitlər)
- louse
Declension
References
- 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
Pronunciation
Noun
bit
- sun
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Verb
bit
- supine of biś
Nigerian Pidgin
Etymology
From English beat.
Verb
bit
- beat
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse biti.
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural biter, definite plural bitene)
- a bit, piece (of something)
- a bite, mouthful (of food)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From English bit (“binary digit”).
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or biter, definite plural bitene)
- a bit (binary digit)
References
- “bit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- (piece): bætta (dialectal)
Etymology 1
From Old Norse.
Pronunciation
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bitar, definite plural bitane)
- a bit, piece (of something)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English bit (“binary digit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or bitar, definit plural bitane)
- a bit (binary digit)
Etymology 3
Inherited from Old Norse bit.
Pronunciation
Noun
bit n (definite singular bitet, indefinite plural bit, definite plural bita)
- a bite (e.g. insect bite, dog bite)
- a bite, mouthful (of food)
Etymology 4
From the first person singular present indicative of Old Norse bíta, and from the second person singular imperative Old Norse bíta.
Pronunciation
Verb
bit
- inflection of bite:
- present
- imperative
References
- “bit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish
Verb
bit
- third-person plural future of is
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English bit.
Noun
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
The genitive singular form bita is overall less common.
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English beat.
Noun
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
Alternative forms
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English drill bit.
Noun
bit m inan
- drill bit
Declension
Etymology 4
Borrowed from English big beat.
Alternative forms
Noun
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
Further reading
- bit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bit.
Pronunciation
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit)
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Related terms
- byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English bit or French bit.
Noun
bit m (plural biți)
- (computing) bit
Declension
Declension of bit
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nominative/accusative
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(un) bit
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bitul
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(niște) biți
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Saterland Frisian
Etymology
Related to German bis.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
bit
- until
Preposition
bit
- until, to
Derived terms
References
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “bit”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
Scots
Adjective
bit
- Little.
1889, Jessup Whitehead, The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering, page 439:
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
Etymology 1
From bȉti (“to be”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bȋt f (Cyrillic spelling би̑т)
- essence
- point, meaning
Declension
Etymology 2
From English bit.
Pronunciation
Noun
bȉt m (Cyrillic spelling би̏т)
- (computing) bit
Declension
Slavomolisano
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian biti, from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.
Verb
bit pf or impf
- to be
References
- 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
Etymology
Borrowed from English bit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbit/
- Rhymes: -it
- Syllabification: bit
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- bit (binary digit)
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse biti.
Pronunciation
Noun
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 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
Det är en bra bit till Säffle- It's quite a drive to Säffle
Ta på dig vandringskängorna. Det är en bit att gå.- Put on your hiking boots. It's a bit of a 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
- a tune, a piece (song)
- Synonyms: låt, sång
en svängig bit- a swinging tune
Usage notes
Del (“part”) is often more idiomatic when piece is interchangeable with part.
Declension
Derived terms
See also
- del (“part”)
- stycke (piece that is a fragment of something in some sense – compare stycka)
Etymology 2
From English bit, from binary digit.
Pronunciation
Noun
bit c
- (computing) a bit
ett 64-bitars operativsystem- a 64-bit operating system
Declension
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Verb
bit
- imperative of bita
References
Turkish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish بیت, بت, from Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Noun
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
- (zoology) louse
Declension
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English bit, abbreviation of binary digit.
Noun
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
- (computing) bit
Declension
Etymology 3
Verb
bit
- second-person singular imperative of bitmek
Turkmen
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”). Cognate with Old Turkic (bit), Turkish bit (“louse”), etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
bit (definite accusative bidi, plural bitler)
- (zoology) louse
Declension
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Noun
bit
- (computing) bit
Zhuang
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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
bit (classifier duz, Sawndip forms 鴓 or 𱈶 or ⿰品鳥, 1957–1982 spelling bit)
- duck
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Chinese 筆 (MC pit).
Noun
bit (classifier gaiq, Sawndip forms 𣭈 or 𰚎, 1957–1982 spelling bit)
- pen; pencil; writing implement
Classifier
bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)
- Classifier for sums of money and deals.
Etymology 3
From Chinese 匹 (MC phjit).
Classifier
bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)
- Classifier for cloth: bolt of