babit

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Cebuano[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: ba‧bit

Noun[edit]

babit

  1. a kind of diving weight

Indonesian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Malay babit.

Root[edit]

babit

  1. (archaic) to involve, to implicate
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English babbitt.

Noun[edit]

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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