different between bint vs bist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (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: b?nt, IPA^(key): /b?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

bint (plural bints)

1. (Britain, derogatory) A woman, a girl.

   Tell that bint to get herself in here now!

   • Austin Powers (film):

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

   • 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

References

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

Declension

Derived terms

• aisbint

References

• “bint” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [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

From German Binde.

Noun

bint

1. bind, bandage

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bint, from older gebint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?nt/
• Hyphenation: bint
• Rhymes: -?nt

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

Egyptian

Romanization

bint

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjnt.

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (bint).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?nt/

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 ?u (“brother”) and o?t (“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

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English bist, beest, best, from Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of b?on (“to be”)), from Proto-Germanic *biusi (“(thou) art”), equivalent to be +? -est. Cognate with West Frisian bist (“(thou) art”), Low German büst (“(thou) art”), German bist (“(thou) art”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

bist

1. (Britain dialectal, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Originally used to form the second person singular of be, but can denote other present tense forms, such as: are, am, is
   • 1875, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch:

     Thee bist rayther too much a feelosofer, I be afeard, for me.

   • 1904, Henry Branch, Cotswold and vale:

     Lookee, thee bist purty, my love; lookee, thee bist purty: thee hast dove's eyes betwix thy locks; thy locks be like a flock o' ship fur thickedness.

   Where bist goin'.

   Where are you going?

   I bist goin' 'ome.

   I am going home

   How bist?

   How are you?

Related terms

• bin
• bisn't

Anagrams

• ITBS, ITBs, TBIs, bits, stib-, tibs

German

Etymology

From Old High German bist. Cognate to Middle Dutch bes, best, dialectal English bist, beest.

German bist has two sources:

• a form based on Proto-Indo-European *h?ésti (“(you) are (sg.)”)
• an initial b- that was added to the word under influence of verb forms based on Proto-Germanic *beun? (as in Old English beon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?st/

Verb

bist

1. second-person singular present of sein

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• beest, best

Etymology

From Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of b?on (“to be”)), from Proto-Germanic *biusi (“(thou) art”), equivalent to been +? -est.

Verb

bist

1. second-person singular present indicative of been

Usage notes

This form is less common than art for the second-person singular.

Descendants

• English: bist, beest (archaic or dialectal)

Old English

Verb

bist

1. second-person singular present of b?on

Descendants

• Middle English: bist, beest, best
  • English: bist, beest (archaic or dialectal)

Wakhi

Etymology

From Tajik ???? (bist).

Numeral

bist

1. twenty

West Frisian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin b?stia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?st/

Noun

bist n (plural bisten, diminutive bistje or bistke)

1. animal, beast

Alternative forms

• beest

Derived terms

• leavehearsbistke

Further reading

• “beest”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yagnobi

Numeral

bist

1. twenty

Further reading

• Ronald Emmerick, Iranian, in Indo-European Numerals (1992, ?ISBN, edited by Jadranka Gvozdanovic), page 312