pipit

Borrowed from Malay pipit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

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.

• pihoihoi
• titlark

pipit

1. nominative plural of pipi

• tippi

Borrowed from Malay pipit.

• IPA^(key): /pi.pit/

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pipit m (plural pipits)

1. pipit

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

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

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

pipit (plural pipit-pipit)

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

Borrowed from Javanese pipit.

pipit

1. to press

   Synonyms: apit, himpit, jepit

• “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

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

Sense of "pleb" extension from figurative sense from an Instagram post made by the Crown Prince of Johor, Tunku Ismail Idris in 2019: "Kau jangan lupa helang dan pipit terbang tak sama tinggi" (You better not forget that the eagle and the sparrow cannot fly on the same height).^[1]

• (Standard Southern Peninsula) IPA^(key): /ˈpipet/ [ˈpi.pet̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -ipet, -et

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

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

1. any small birds especially Munia spp. - sparrow; finch
2. (figurative) commoner

   enggang sama enggang, pipit sama pipit: people seek company of those in their same stature (lit. hornbills flock with hornbills, sparrows flock with sparrows)

   1. (Malaysia, slang, politics) pleb

      Antonym: helang

pipit (comparative lebih pipit, superlative paling pipit)

1. tiny (of a diminutive sense, used in certain nouns)

   Synonym: padi

   lesung pipit: dimple (lit. 'tiny mortar')

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

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

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

1. alternative form of pepit

pipit

1. supine of pipa (“to peep”)

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.

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

pipít (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒᜆ᜔)

1. pipit (passerine bird from the genus Anthus)

• “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

• pipet (colloquial)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpɪt/

pipit

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