bint

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بِنْت (bint, “girl, daughter”), from Proto-Semitic *bint-, used to denote a patronym.

The term entered the British lexicon during the occupation of Egypt at the end of the 19th century, where it was adopted by British soldiers to mean "girlfriend" or "bit on the side". Its register varies from that of the harsher bitch to being affectionate, the latter more commonly associated with the West Midlands. The term was used in British armed forces and the London area synonymously with bird in its slang usage (and sometimes brass) from at least the 1950s. (In the Tyneside shipping industry, particularly in Laygate, in South Shields, the term may have been adopted earlier, from the Yemeni community which had existed there since the 1890s.)

Pronunciation

• enPR: bĭnt, IPA^(key): /bɪnt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

bint (plural bints)

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory) A woman, a girl.

   Tell that bint to get herself in here now!

   • 1997, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery:

     Don't you remember the Crimbo din-din we had with the grotty Scots bint?

   • 1975, Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

     If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:woman

Bavarian

Noun

bint ?

1. (Sappada, Sauris, Timau) wind

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Old High German wint (“wind”). Cognate with German Wind, English wind.

Noun

bint m (plural binte, diminutive bintle)

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) wind

   Dar bint plaazet. ― The wind is blowing.

Declension

Declension of bint – 1st declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	dar	bint	de	binte
accusative	an	in	bint	de	binte
dative	aname	me	binte	in	binten

Derived terms

• aisbint

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
• “bint” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Russian бинт (bint), from German Binde.

Noun

bint

1. bind, bandage

Declension

Declension of bint

	singular	plural
nominative	bint	bintler
genitive	bintniñ	bintlerniñ
dative	bintke	bintlerge
accusative	bintni	bintlerni
locative	bintte	bintlerde
ablative	bintten	bintlerden

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “bint”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bint, from older gebint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bint
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

bint n (plural binten)

1. heavy wooden beam, especially as part of a roof
2. several beams, forming the structure of a building or a roof

   Synonym: gebint

Descendants

• → Sranan Tongo: benti

Egyptian

Romanization

bint

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjnt.

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بِنْت (bint).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪnt/

Noun

bint f (plural ulied)

1. daughter

   Coordinate term: iben

Usage notes

• The singular of this word is predominantly used in the construct state, that is with a possessive suffix or a following noun. This is similar to the words ħu (“brother”) and oħt (“sister”), though with bint and iben this restriction is only a tendency, not a definite rule.
• The plural ulied is gender-neutral and thus means “children” in the sense of “offspring of either sex”. The etymological plural bniet now means “girls” and is used as a plural of tifla. In order to specify the feminine in the plural one says ulied bniet (“daughters”, literally “children girls”).

Inflection

Inflection of bint

		singular		plural
		m	f
singular	1st person	binti		bintna
	2nd person	bintek		bintkom
	3rd person	bintu	bintha	binthom
plural	1st person	uliedi		uliedna
	2nd person	uliedek		uliedkom
	3rd person	uliedu	uliedha	uliedhom

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German wint, from Old High German wint, from Proto-Germanic *windaz. Cognate with German Wind, English wind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bint/

Noun

bint m

1. wind

References

• Anthony R. Rowley, Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bint/

Verb

bint

1. third-person singular present indicative of bindan