bibit

From Malay bibit, Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦶꦧꦶꦠ꧀ (bibit, “seed”), ꦮꦶꦮꦶꦠ꧀ (wiwit, “beginning”), from Old Javanese wwit, wwīt, wit (“origin, beginning; base, foundation; stem, tree”), ultimately probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *rwiʔ (“fig tree”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibɪt̚/
• Rhymes: -bɪt, -ɪt, -t
• Hyphenation: bi‧bit

bibit (plural bibit-bibit)

1. seedling
   1. (botany) a young plant grown from seed
   2. any young plant, especially:
      1. one grown in a nursery for transplanting
      2. a tree smaller than a sapling
2. (Internet, file sharing) seeder, a person connected to a peer-to-peer network who has a complete or partial copy of a given file and makes it available for downloading

• (botany): semai

• biji
• benih

• “bibit”, 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

bibit

1. third-person singular present/perfect active indicative of bibō

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbibit/ [ˈbi.bit̪̚]
• Rhymes: -bit, -it
• Hyphenation: bi‧bit

bibit (Jawi spelling بيبيت, plural bibit-bibit or bibit²)

1. seed; seedling (a young plant grown from a seed).

   Synonyms: benih, semaian

   Petani sedang menanam bibit padi.

   The farmer is planting rice seedlings.

2. (figuratively) seed; germ; beginning (the source, early signs, or origin of an emotion, disease, or event).

   Synonyms: putik, punca

   Telah timbul bibit kemesraan antara mereka.

   The seeds of intimacy have arisen between them.

bibit (Jawi spelling بيبيت)

1. to carry dangling from the fingers.

   Synonyms: bimbit, jinjing

   Dia bibit bakul kecil itu ke pasar.

   She carried the small basket (with her fingers) to the market.

• For the meaning "to carry", the related word bimbit is much more commonly used in standard Malay.

• > Indonesian: bibit (inherited)

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