baht

See also: вант

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːt
• Homophones: bot, bought (cot–caught merger, father–bother merger), Bart (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Thai บาท (bàat), from Pali pāda (quarter of a larger valued coin), ultimately from Sanskrit पाद (quarter).

Alternative forms

• bat (dated)

Noun

baht (plural baht or bahts)

1. The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.

Derived terms

• baht bus

Translations

unit of currency

• Arabic: بَات m (bāt)
• Burmese: ဘတ် (my) (bhat)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 泰銖 / 泰铢 (taai³ zyu¹), 泰匹 (taai³ pat¹)

  Mandarin: 泰銖 / 泰铢 (zh) (Tài zhū)

• Finnish: baht (fi)
• French: baht (fr) m
• Greek: μπατ (bat)
• Hindi: बात (hi) (bāt)
• Hmong:

  White Hmong: npam

• Hungarian: bát (hu)
• Japanese: バーツ (ja) (bātsu)
• Khmer: បាត (km) (baat)
• Korean: 밧 (bat)
• Lao: ບາດ (bāt)
• Malay: kop (ms), kok (ms)
• Māori: pāta
• Persian: بات (fa) (bât)
• Polish: bat (pl) m
• Portuguese: baht (pt) m
• Russian: бат (ru) m (bat)
• Slovak: baht m
• Spanish: baht (es) m
• Thai: บาท (th) (bàat), (sign) ฿ (th) (bàat)
• Urdu: بات (bāt)
• Vietnamese: bạt (vi)
• Volapük: bagt (vo)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling of but.

Adverb

baht (not comparable)

1. (Yorkshire, Cheshire) Without.
   • c. 1850s–70s, On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at (song)
   • 1881, Ben Preston, Dialect and Other Poems‎^[1], page 19:

     Thear's boan-idle nowbles, baht hahses an' lands, 'at al walk on a carpeted path, an' nivver do nowt wi' ther lily-white hands bud lift uther fowk's jock to ther maath.

   • 1884, William Cudworth (of Bradford), Yorkshire Dialect and Character Sketches‎^[2], page 15:

     Hah's a growing lad to thrive baht jock?

   • 1886, Robert Holland, A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester‎^[3], page 467:

     Jud put'em i' his poke baht sayingk owt. "Nay, mon!" ses Jock, "tha winnat goo hwon baht gieingk me th' brass for th' pattens, wilt a? Thah'rt welly drunk!"

   • 1893, Keighley Snowden, Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds‎^[4], page 127:

     "Ho'd thi din," cried Dave Berry, thickly. "Ther's noise enew baht thy blether.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation spelling of (a)bout.

Preposition

baht

1. (Yorkshire) About.

Etymology 4

Pronunciation spelling of bout.

Noun

baht (plural bahts)

1. (Yorkshire) Bout (of an illness, a fight, etc).

Anagrams

• BTHA, Ba'th, Bath, Bhat, bath

Italian

Etymology

Derived from Thai บาท (bàat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Hyphenation: bàht

Noun

baht m (invariable)

1. baht (“currency of Thailand”)

   Synonym: (obsolete) tical

Further reading

• “SIAM”, in Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1936

Portuguese

Etymology

Derived from Thai บาท (bàat).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.t͡ʃi/, /ˈbat͡ʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbat/

• Hyphenation: baht

Noun

baht m (plural bahts)

1. baht (unit of currency)

Further reading

• “baht”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بخت (baht), from Persian بخت (baxt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâxt/

Noun

bȁht m inan (Cyrillic spelling ба̏хт)

1. (regional, expressive) luck

Declension

Declension of baht

	singular	plural
nominative	baht	bahtovi
genitive	bahta	bahtova
dative	bahtu	bahtovima
accusative	baht	bahtove
vocative	bahte	bahtovi
locative	bahtu	bahtovima
instrumental	bahtom	bahtovima

References

• “baht”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Thai บาท (bàat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːt/, [ˈbaːt]
• Rhymes: -aːt

Noun

baht m inan

1. (numismatics) baht (unit of currency)

Declension

Declension of baht
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	baht	bahty
genitive	bahtu	bahtov
dative	bahtu	bahtom
accusative	baht	bahty
locative	bahte	bahtoch
instrumental	bahtom	bahtmi

Further reading

• “baht”, 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, 2003–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbat/ [ˈbat̪]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: baht

Noun

baht m (plural bahts)

1. baht (currency of Thailand)

Turkish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle Persian b(ʾ)ht' /⁠baxt⁠/

Classical Persian بَخْت (baxt)bor.

Old Anatolian Turkish بخت

Ottoman Turkish بخت

Turkish baht

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بخت, from Old Anatolian Turkish بخت, borrowed from Classical Persian بَخْت (baxt). Compare Turkmen bagt.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

baht (definite accusative bahtı, plural bahtlar)

1. luck

   Synonyms: çarkıfelek, felek, şans, talih

2. fortune

Declension

Declension of baht

	singular	plural
nominative	baht	bahtlar
definite accusative	bahtı	bahtları
dative	bahta	bahtlara
locative	bahtta	bahtlarda
ablative	bahttan	bahtlardan
genitive	bahtın	bahtların

Derived terms

• baht körlüğü
• bahtabakan
• bahtı açık
• bahtı açılmak
• bahtı bağlı olmak
• bahtı kapanmak
• bahtı kara
• bahtı kara olmak
• bahtına küsmek
• bahtlı
• bahtsız
• bedbaht
• kara baht

proverbs involving "baht"

• ana kızına taht kurar, kız bahtı kocadan arar
• ana kızına taht kurmuş, baht kuramamış
• ananın bahtı kızına
• at ile avrat yiğidin bahtına
• baht olmayınca başta, ne kuruda biter ne yaşta

Related terms

• bahtiyar