بت

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بَتَّ • (batta) I (non-past يَبُتُّ (yabuttu) or يَبِتُّ (yabittu), verbal noun بَتّ (batt))

1. to cut off, to sever

   Synonyms: قَطَعَ (qaṭaʕa), بَتَرَ (batara), جَزَمَ (jazama)

2. to complete, to finish, to achieve, to accomplish
3. to fix, to settle, to determine, to decide
4. to adjudge, to adjudicate

بَتّ • (batt) m

1. verbal noun of بَتَّ (batta) (form I)
2. settlement, decision, resolution

بت (form I)

1. بِتُّ (bittu) /bit.tu/: first-person singular past active of بَاتَ (bāta)
2. بِتَّ (bitta) /bit.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of بَاتَ (bāta)
3. بِتِّ (bitti) /bit.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of بَاتَ (bāta)
4. بِتْ (bit) /bit/: second-person masculine singular imperative of بَاتَ (bāta)

بت • (but)

1. idol

From Proto-Turkic *bĕt (“face”).^[1][2]

بت • (bet)

1. complexion

• بت بڭیز (bet beñiz)

From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).^[3][4]

بت • (bit)

1. (specifically) louse
2. (generally) a sucking insect on plant or animal

From Persian بد.^[4][5]

بت • (bet)

1. ugly

From Arabic بَتّ (batt)^[4]

بت • (bet)

1. cutting off
2. deciding

From Persian بت (but).^[4][6]

بت • (but or put)

1. idol

 

From Middle Persian bwt' (/⁠but⁠/, “Buddha, idol”), ultimately from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha). In the earliest New Persian sources of the ninth century, the word already has the extended meaning of “beautiful person; the beloved” (whom one worships instead of God).

بت • (bot) (plural بت‌ها (bot-hâ) or بتان (botân))

1. idol

   Synonym: صنم (sanam)

   • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The reign of Gushtāsp”, in شاهنامه‎^[3]:

     چو آگه شدند از نکو دین اوی
     گرفتند آن راه و آیین اوی
     بتان از سر کوه میسوختند
     بجای بت آذر برافروختند

     čō āgah šudand az nikū dīn-i ōy
     giriftand ān rāh u āyīn-i ōy
     butān az sar-i kōh mē-sūxtand
     ba jāy-i but āḏar bar-afrūxtand

     When they learned of the good religion of his,
     They took up the ways and customs of his;
     They burned the idols from the mountaintops,
     And in the idol's place, they lit the sacred flame.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. beauty; beautiful person; the beloved

   Synonyms: صنم (sanam), جانان (jânân), دلبر (delbar), دلستان (delsetân)

   • c. 950, Abū‘l-Hasan Ali Munjīk, گنج سخن, 4th edition, volume 1, Tehran: Ibn-i Sīnā, published 1961, page 50:

     ما را جگر بتیر تو خسته گشت
     ای صبر بر فراق بتان نیک جوشنی

     mā rā jigar ba tīr-i firāq-i tu xasta gašt
     ay sabr bar firāq-i butān nēk jawšan-ī

     My heart [lit. liver] has been wounded by the arrow of separation from you;
     O patience! You are a fine breastplate against separation from beauties.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

A wanderwort related to Arabic بَطَّة (baṭṭa), بَطّ (baṭṭ), Old Armenian բադ (bad), Hindi बत्तख़ (battax), Punjabi ਬੱਤਖ਼ (battax) / بَطَّخ (bat̤t̤ax), Gujarati બતક (batak).

• بط

بت • (bat) (plural بت‌ها (bat-hâ))

1. duck

• → Malayalam: വാത്ത (vātta), വാത്ത് (vāttŭ), പാത്ത (pātta)
• → Tamil: வாத்து (vāttu)
  • → Irula: வாத்து (vāttu)
• → Telugu: బాతు (bātu)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

بَت • (bat) m (Hindi spelling बत)

1. shipworm

Borrowed from Classical Persian بت (bat, “mark, score”).

بَت • (bat) m (Hindi spelling बत)

1. line
2. mark

Borrowed from Classical Persian بت (but), from Middle Persian [script needed] (bwt' /⁠but⁠/, “Buddha, idol”), ultimately from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha). Doublet of بدھ (buddh).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bʊt̪/
• Rhymes: -ʊt̪

بُت • (but) m (Hindi spelling बुत)

1. idol, icon
2. statue
3. (figurative) mistress

• صنم (sanam)
• (idol, statue, icon): مورت (mūrat)

• بت پرست (but-parast, “idolater”)
• بت پرستی (but-parastī, “idolatry”)

From Classical Persian بت (but).

بُت (but)

1. statue