nit

See also: nît, -nit, нит, and нить

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪt/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Homophone: knit

Etymology 1

From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱ(o)nid- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian glìnda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís))

Noun

nit (plural nits)

1. The egg of a louse.
2. A young louse.
3. (UK, Ireland, slang) A head louse regardless of its age.
4. (UK, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
5. A nitpicker.
6. A minor shortcoming.

Synonyms

• dickies (Geordie)

Derived terms

• nit-picking

Translations

egg of a louse

• Albanian: thëri f pl
• Arabic: صُغْبَة f (ṣuḡba)
• Armenian: անիծ (hy) (anic)
• Bashkir: һеркә (herkə)
• Basque: bartz
• Belarusian: гні́да f (hnída)
• Bulgarian: гни́да f (gnída)
• Catalan: llémena f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟣子／虮子 (zh) (jǐzi), 虮子 (zh) (jǐzi)

• Czech: hnida (cs) f
• Danish: gnid, luseæg (da) n
• Dutch: neet (nl) f
• Esperanto: pedikovo
• Faroese: nitra f
• Fijian: lise
• Finnish: saivare (fi), saivar (fi)
• French: lente (fr) f
• Friulian: glendon m
• Galician: lendia (gl) f
• Georgian: ტილის კვერცხი (ṭilis ḳvercxi)
• German: Nisse (de) f
• Greek: κονίδα f (konída)
• Hawaiian: liha
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: serke (hu)
• Icelandic: nit f
• Ilocano: lisa
• Indonesian: telur kutu
• Irish: sniodh f
• Italian: lendine m
• Japanese: 寄生虫の卵 (きせいちゅうのたまご, kiseichū no tamago)
• Khmer: អំបាត (km) (ʼɑmbaat)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕِشک (rişk)

  Laki: ڕِشک (rişk)

  Northern Kurdish: rişk (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: ڕِشک (rişk)

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• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: lēns f
• Lithuanian: glinda
• Low German: Neet f
• Macedonian: гни́да f (gnída)
• Maori: riha, rihariha
• Mi'kmaq: gna'ji'j anim
• Norwegian: gnett
• Occitan: lende (oc)
• Persian: رشک (fa) (rešk)
• Polish: gnida (pl) f
• Portuguese: lêndea (pt) f
• Quechua: ciya, iski
• Romanian: lindină (ro) f
• Russian: гни́да (ru) f (gnída)
• Scots: neet
• Scottish Gaelic: sneadh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гњи̏да f

  Roman: gnjȉda (sh) f

• Sicilian: lìnnina (scn) f, dìndina (scn) f, ddìnina (scn) f
• Slovak: hnida (sk) f
• Slovene: gnjida f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gnida f

• Spanish: liendre (es) f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: gnet (sv) c
• Tagalog: lisa
• Thai: เล็น (th) (len)
• Tok Pisin: kiau bilong laus
• Turkish: sirke (tr)
• Ukrainian: гни́да f (hnýda)
• Venetian: léndena (vec) f, géndena f
• Vietnamese: trứng chấy, trứng rận
• Welsh: nedd f pl
• Westrobothnian:
• Yup'ik: ingqiq

young louse

• Dutch: neet (nl) f
• Esperanto: pediklarvo
• Georgian: წილი (c̣ili)
• Mi'kmaq: gna'ji'j anim
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• Tamil: நமுடு (ta) (namuṭu)
• Tok Pisin: pikinini bilong laus
• Turkish: yavşak (tr)

slang: fool, nitwit

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傻瓜 (zh) (shǎguā), 笨蛋 (zh) (bèndàn)

• Danish: fjols n, kvaj n
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• Finnish: dille (fi)
• Georgian: სულელი (suleli), ტუტუცი (ṭuṭuci)
• Russian: деби́л (ru) m (debíl)

Verb

nit (third-person singular simple present nits, present participle nitting, simple past and past participle nitted)

1. (MLE) To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.
   • 2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:

     Can’t miss no dots
     Every shot let caused I’m hittin
     Used to bag it up in the toilet
     My mumsie thought I was shittin
     Ever seen a junky fittin?
     Ever stepped in a room full of needles?
     No I ain’t doin no nittin

Etymology 2

From Latin nitēre (“to shine”).

Noun

nit (plural nits)

2. A candela per square meter.

   This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.

Etymology 3

Noun

nit (plural nits)

1. Synonym of nat (logarithmic unit of information)

Anagrams

• INT, ITN, TIN, i'n't, in't, int, int., tin

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan nuit, from (compare Occitan nuèit), from Latin noctem, accusative of nox (compare French nuit, Portuguese noite, Spanish noche, Italian notte), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (compare English night).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈnit]
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

nit f (plural nits)

1. night

   durant la nit ― during the night

Related terms

• anit
• mitjanit

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Central Mahuatlán Zapoteco

Noun

nit

1. water

References

• Basic Vocabulary, pages 7-8

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nitь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲɪt/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

nit f

1. thread

Derived terms

• nitka f

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse gnit, from Proto-Germanic *hnits.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt
• Homophone: nyt

Noun

nit f (genitive singular nitar, no plural)

1. nit (egg of a louse)

Declension

declension of nit

f-s1	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	nit	nitin
accusative	nit	nitina
dative	nit	nitinni
genitive	nitar	nitarinnar

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Ozolotepec Zapotec

Noun

nit

1. water

References

• Basic Vocabulary, pages 7-8

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Polish

nity

Etymology

From German Niet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲit/

Noun

nit m inan

1. rivet (mechanical fastener)

Declension

Declension of nit

	singular	plural
nominative	nit	nity
genitive	nitu	nitów
dative	nitowi	nitom
accusative	nit	nity
instrumental	nitem	nitami
locative	nicie	nitach
vocative	nicie	nity

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From German Niet.

Noun

nit n (plural nituri)

1. rivet

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San Baltazar Loxicha Zapotec

Noun

nit

1. water

References

• Basic Vocabulary, pages 7-8

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nitь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nîːt/

Noun

nȋt f (Cyrillic spelling ни̑т)

1. thread
2. flow, continuity

Declension

Declension of nit

	singular	plural
nominative	nit	niti
genitive	niti	niti
dative	niti	nitima
accusative	nit	niti
vocative	niti	niti
locative	niti	nitima
instrumental	niti	nitima

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nitь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nít/

Noun

nȉt f

1. thread

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, i-stem
nom. sing.	nit
gen. sing.	niti
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	nit	niti	niti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	niti	niti	niti
dative (dajȃlnik)	niti	nitma	nitim
accusative (tožȋlnik)	nit	niti	niti
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	niti	nitih	nitih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	nitjo	nitma	nitmi

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Swedish

Etymology

From German Niet.

Noun

nit c

1. a rivet, a stud
2. the action of braking (a motor vehicle) very hard
3. a lottery ticket which gave no reward
4. zeal

Declension

Declension of nit
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	nit	niten	nitar	nitarna
Genitive	nits	nitens	nitars	nitarnas

Synonyms

• (braking): tvärnit
• (lottery ticket): nitlott

See also

• nita
• gå på en nit
• tvärnit

Anagrams

• int, tin

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Volapük

Noun

nit (nominative plural nits)

1. staple
2. staple for office stapler

Declension

declension of nit

	singular	plural
nominative	nit	nits
genitive	nita	nitas
dative	nite	nites
accusative	niti	nitis
vocative 1	o nit!	o nits!
predicative 2	nitu	nitus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Wolof

Noun

nit (definite form nit ki)

1. person

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Zipser German

Alternative forms

• nëch (Slovakia)

Adverb

nit

1. (Romania, including Wassertal) not

References

• Claus Stephani, Zipser Mära und Kasska (1989)
• Anton-Joseph Ilk, Zipser Volksgut aus dem Wassertal (1990)