bidet

See also: Bidet

English

A bidet.

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbiːdeɪ]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːdeɪ
• IPA^(key): [bɪˈdeɪ]

Noun

bidet (plural bidets)

1. a low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.
2. (obsolete) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
   • Template:RQ:Jonson Chloridia

     For joy of which I will return to myself, mount my bidet in a dance

Translations

low-mounted plumbing fixture for cleaning the genitalia and anus

• Arabic: بِيدِيت m (bidit), بِيدِيه m (bidih), شطاف m (šațțāf), شطافة f (šațțāfa)

  Hijazi Arabic: بديه m (bidē), بيديه m (bīdē)

• Bashkir: биде (bide)
• Belarusian: бідэ́ n (bidé)
• Breton: bidochenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: биде́ n (bidé)
• Catalan: bidet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 坐浴桶 (co⁵ juk⁶ tung²)

  Mandarin: 坐浴桶 (zuòyùtǒng), 坐浴盤／坐浴盘 (zuòyùpán), 智能廁板／智能厕板, 智能厕板 (zhìnéng cèbǎn)

• Czech: bidet (cs) m
• Danish: bidet (da) c
• Dutch: bidet (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: bideo
• Finnish: bidee (fi), pesuistuin, alapesuallas
• French: bidet (fr) m
• Galician: bidé m
• German: Bidet (de) n
• Greek: μπιντές (el) m (bintés)
• Hebrew: בִּידֵה (he) m
• Hungarian: bidé (hu)
• Icelandic: skolskál f
• Ido: bideto (io)
• Italian: bidè (it) m, bidet m
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• Japanese: ビデ (bide)
• Korean: 비데 (bide)
• Latvian: bidē m
• Lithuanian: bidė f
• Luxembourgish: Bidet m
• Macedonian: биде́ n (bidé)
• Maltese: bidè m
• Norman: bidet m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bidet (no) n

  Nynorsk: bidet n

• Persian: بیده (fa) (bide)
• Polish: bidet (pl) m
• Portuguese: bidê (pt) m, bidé (pt) m
• Romanian: bideu (ro) n
• Russian: биде́ (ru) n (bidɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бѝде̄ n

  Roman: bìdē (sh) n

• Sicilian: bidè m
• Slovak: bidet m
• Slovene: bide m
• Spanish: bidé (es) m
• Swedish: bidé (sv) c
• Turkish: bide (tr)
• Ukrainian: біде́ n (bidé)

Anagrams

• betid, bited, debit

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Czech

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪdɛt]
• Hyphenation: bi‧det

Noun

bidet m inan

1. bidet

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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French

Etymology

From bider (“to trot”), of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly from Proto-Celtic *bid (“small”), related to Irish bídeach (“small”) and Medieval Italian bidetto (“small horse”), itself probably related to Proto-Germanic *bitiz; or, possibly from a lost Middle French rabider (“go quickly, violently”), a descendant of Latin rabidus (“furious, fierce”), with loss of the initial prefix.

Modern sense derives from analogy with the straddling of a bidet and the straddling of a small horse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.dɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. pony, small horse
2. bidet

Descendants

• → Polish: bidet
• → Portuguese: bidê, bidé (Portugal)

Further reading

• “bidet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• débit

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Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. (Jersey) pony
2. (Jersey) bidet

Synonyms

• (pony): pônîn, p'tit j'va

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bidet. First attested in 1819

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.dɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -idɛt
• Syllabification: bi‧det

Noun

bidet m inan (diminutive bidecik)

1. bidet (low-mounted plumbing fixture for cleaning the genitalia and anus)

Declension

Declension of bidet

	singular	plural
nominative	bidet	bidety
genitive	bidetu	bidetów
dative	bidetowi	bidetom
accusative	bidet	bidety
instrumental	bidetem	bidetami
locative	bidecie	bidetach
vocative	bidecie	bidety

Derived terms

adjective

• bidetowy

 

Further reading

• bidet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bidet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Slovak

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbiɟet]

Noun

bidet m (genitive singular bidetu, nominative plural bidety, genitive plural bidetov, declension pattern of dub)

1. bidet

Declension

Declension of bidet

	singular	plural
nominative	bidet	bidety
genitive	bidetu	bidetov
dative	bidetu	bidetom
accusative	bidet	bidety
locative	bidete	bidetoch
instrumental	bidetom	bidetmi

References

• “bidet”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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Spanish

Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. Alternative form of bidé