bidet

See also: Bidet

English

A bidet.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbiːdeɪ]

• Audio (US):

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

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Translations

low-mounted plumbing fixture for cleaning the genitalia and anus

• Arabic: بِيدِيت m (bidit), بِيدِيه m (bidih)
• 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)
• 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 m, bidet m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ビデ (bide)
• Korean: 비데 (bide)
• Latvian: bidē m
• Lithuanian: bidė f
• Luxembourgish: Bidet m
• Macedonian: биде́ n (bidé)
• 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

• 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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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”); 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/

Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. pony, small horse
2. bidet

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

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

Synonyms

• (pony): pônîn, p'tit j'va

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Polish

Etymology

From French bidet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.dɛt/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

bidet m inan

1. bidet

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

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Spanish

Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. Alternative form of bidé