pipit

English

A paddyfield pipit (Anthus rufulus)

Etymology

From Malay pipit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

Noun

pipit (plural pipits)

1. Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.

Synonyms

• pihoihoi
• titlark

Derived terms

• American pipit
• antpipit
• Australasian pipit
• Blyth's pipit
• buff-bellied pipit
• meadow pipit
• olive-backed pipit
• Pechora pipit
• red-throated pipit
• Richard's pipit
• rock pipit
• Sprague's pipit
• tawny pipit
• tree pipit
• water pipit

Translations

passerine bird from the genus Anthus

• Bulgarian: бъбрица (bg) f (bǎbrica)
• Catalan: piula (ca) f
• Czech: linduška (cs) f
• Danish: piber c
• Dutch: pieper (nl) m
• Esperanto: pipio
• Faroese: títlingur m
• Finnish: kirvinen (fi)
• French: pipit (fr) m
• Galician: pica (gl) f
• German: Pieper (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: οὖραξ f (oûrax), τέτριξ f (tétrix)

• Hungarian: pityer (hu)
• Ido: pipito (io), antuso (io)
• Irish: riabhóg f, gobadán na cuaiche m
• Italian: pispola (it) f, calandro (it) m
• Luxembourgish: Piipsert m
• Māori: manu kahaki
• Norwegian: piplerke m
• Polish: świergotek (pl) m
• Portuguese: petinha f (Portugal), caminheiro (pt) m (Brazil), corredeira (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: fâsă (ro) f
• Russian: конёк (ru) m (konjók), щеври́ца (ru) f (ščevríca)
• Sicilian: calanniruni m, pipituni (scn) m
• Spanish: bisbita f
• Swedish: piplärka (sv) c
• Turkish: incir kuşu (tr)
• Welsh: corhedydd m

Finnish

Adjective

pipit

1. nominative plural of pipi

Anagrams

• tippi

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pipit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.pit/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

pipit m (plural pipits)

1. pipit

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpipit/ [ˈpi.pɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ipit
• Syllabification: pi‧pit

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay pipit, from Proto-Malayic *pipit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitpit (“kind of small bird and its cry”).

Noun

pipit (plural pipit-pipit)

1. various species of small birds, such as finch, sparrow, munia, etc.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese pipit.

Verb

pipit

1. to press

   Synonyms: apit, himpit, jepit

Derived terms

• dipipit
• memipit
• terpipit

Further reading

• “pipit”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *pipit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitpit (“kind of small bird and its cry”).

The second sense originated from a comment made by the Crown Prince of Johor, Tunku Ismail Idris: "Kau jangan lupa helang dan pipit terbang tak sama tinggi" (You better not forget that the eagle and the pipit cannot fly on the same height).

Pronunciation

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈpipet/ [ˈpi.pet̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -ipet, -et

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈpipit/ [ˈpi.pit̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -ipit, -it
• Hyphenation: pi‧pit

Noun

pipit (Jawi spelling ڤيڤيت, plural pipit-pipit or pipit²)

1. sparrow; finch
2. (Malaysia, slang, politics) commoner, pleb

   Antonym: helang

Usage notes

Generic for many small birds, especially Munia spp., but mostly translated as sparrow.

Descendants

• > Indonesian: pipit (inherited)
• → English: pipit
• → French: pipit

Further reading

• "pipit" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Romanian

Adjective

pipit m or n (feminine singular pipită, masculine plural pipiți, feminine/neuter plural pipite)

1. alternative form of pepit

Declension

Declension of pipit

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	pipit		pipită	pipiți	pipite
	definite	pipitul		pipita	pipiții	pipitele
genitive- dative	indefinite	pipit		pipite	pipiți	pipite
	definite	pipitului		pipitei	pipiților	pipitelor

Swedish

Verb

pipit

1. supine of pipa (“to peep”)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pipit (“sparrow”), from Proto-Malayic *pipit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitpit (“kind of small bird and its cry”), likely of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Cebuano pitpit.

Alternatively, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pipiqit (“kind of small bird, probably finch or sparrow”). Compare Ilocano pipiit.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /piˈpit/ [pɪˈpɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: pi‧pit

Noun

pipít (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒᜆ᜔)

1. pipit (passerine bird from the genus Anthus)

Derived terms

• gagapipit
• gapipit
• pipit-asul
• pipit-bakaw
• pipit-gubat
• pipit-kugon
• pipit-lata
• pipit-mananahi
• pipit-mayaman
• pipit-motas
• pipit-parang
• pipit-puso

See also

• akiki
• dupil
• kugoy
• maya
• pipitsugin
• pusikit

Further reading

• “pipit”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “pipit”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pitpit”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pipiqit”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Welsh

Alternative forms

• pipet (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpɪt/

Verb

pipit

1. (literary) second-person singular conditional of pipo

Mutation

Mutated forms of pipit

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pipit	bipit	mhipit	phipit

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.