different between bant vs pant
bant
English
Etymology
Clipping of banter.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ænt
Noun
bant (uncountable)
- (slang) Clipping of banter.
See also
- banting
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German want, from Old High German want, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod, stick; barrier made of sticks, fence”). Cognate with German Wand, Dutch wand, Icelandic vendi.
Noun
bant f (plural bèntar) (Sette Comuni)
- wall, partition
- twelve fathoms
Declension
References
- “bant” 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
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nt
Verb
bant
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of bannen
- (archaic) plural imperative of bannen
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- bana, banet
Verb
bant
- past participle of bane (Etymology 3)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bant/
Etymology 1
From i bant (“to (the) hollow/valley”).
Adverb
bant
- (South Wales, colloquial) away, off
- Gyrrodd e bant heb ddweud gair
- He drove away / off, without saying a word
- Synonym: i ffwrdd
- Gyrrodd e bant heb ddweud gair
- (South Wales, colloquial) off (not in an operating state)
- Ydy'r cyfrifiadur bant?
- Is the computer off?
- Synonym: i ffwrdd
- Antonym: ymlaen
- Ydy'r cyfrifiadur bant?
Derived terms
- amser bant (“time away, time off”)
- bant â hi (“slapdash”)
- bant â'r cart (“off we go”)
- diwrnod bant (“day away, day off”)
Mutation
As bant is already the soft mutation of pant, it cannot be further mutated.
Etymology 2
Noun
bant
- Soft mutation of pant.
Mutation
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pant
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?nt, IPA(key): /pænt/
- Rhymes: -ænt
Etymology 1
From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.
Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasi? (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (phantasió?, “I am subject to hallucinations”), from ???????? (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).
Noun
pant (plural pants)
- A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
- (figuratively) Eager longing.
- 1995, John C. Leggett, Suzanne Malm, The Eighteen Stages of Love (page 9)
- Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.
- 1995, John C. Leggett, Suzanne Malm, The Eighteen Stages of Love (page 9)
- (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
Translations
References
- pant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Verb
pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
- Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
- There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
- (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
- 1633, George Herbert, Love
- Then shall our hearts pant thee.
- 1633, George Herbert, Love
- (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
- (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
Synonyms
- (breathe quickly or in a labored manner): gasp
- (long for): crave, desire, long for, pine for
- (long eagerly): crave, desire, long, pine
- (of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence): palpitate, pound, throb
Translations
Etymology 2
From pants
Noun
pant (plural pants)
- (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
- (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
- Pant leg
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Unknown
Noun
pant (plural pants)
- (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
References
- OED 2nd edition
Anagrams
- APTN, NAPT, NPTA
Czech
Noun
=Etymology
From German Band (“band, belt”)
pant m
- hinge
Danish
Noun
pant
- a deposit (on packaging such as bottles and cans)
Derived terms
- dåsepant, flaskepant
See also
- depositum (deposit on a rented home)
Middle English
Verb
pant
- Alternative form of panten
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr
Noun
pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta or pantene)
- pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
- a mortgage
- security (on a loan)
- a forfeit (in a game)
- a pledge
Related terms
- pantelån
- pantelåner
- pantsette
Noun
pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural panter, definite plural pantene)
- a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)
References
- “pant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr
Noun
pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta)
- pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
- a mortgage
- security (on a loan)
- a forfeit (in a game)
- a pledge
Related terms
- pantelån
Noun
pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural pantar, definite plural pantane)
- a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)
References
- “pant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Band via Austrian German.
Noun
p?nt m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- hinge
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr
Noun
pant c
- pledge, item deposited at a pawnshop or otherwise given as a security; money returned when a bottle or similar is recycled
Declension
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kwantyo- "flat hill", compare Pictish ???? (pant, “hollow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pant/
Noun
pant m (plural pantiau)
- hollow, depression, small valley, dingle, dell
Mutation
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