babit

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ba‧bit

Noun

babit

  1. a kind of diving weight

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.bɪt/
  • Rhymes: -bɪt
  • Hyphenation: ba‧bit

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay babit.

Root

babit

  1. (archaic) to involve, to implicate
Derived terms
  • membabitkan
  • terbabit

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English babbitt.

Noun

babit (plural babit-babit, first-person possessive babitku, second-person possessive babitmu, third-person possessive babitnya)

  1. (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.

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