# bita
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bitte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈbi.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbi.ta]

### Noun

bita f (plural bites)
* (nautical) bitt

#### Derived terms

* bitó

### See also

* manegueta
* norai

### Further reading

* “bita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

bita
* grandmother

#### Synonyms

* qartana
* (in the northern dialect) abay

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɪta]

### Participle

bita
* inflection of bít:
** feminine singular passive participle
** neuter plural passive participle

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* abita

### Etymology

From French bitte (“bitt”), from Old Norse biti (“beam”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbitɐ]

### Noun

bita f (plural bitas)
* (nautical) bitt
* (nautical) mooring post

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bita”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Icelandic
### Noun

bita
* indefinite accusative singular of biti
* indefinite dative singular of biti
* indefinite genitive singular of biti
* indefinite accusative plural of biti
* indefinite genitive plural of biti

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English byte, from alteration of the word bite. Compare to Standard Malay bait.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbi.ta/
* Rhymes: -ta
* Hyphenation: bi‧ta

### Noun

bita
* (computing) byte
** a unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values
** a short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word

### Further reading

* “bita” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Jamamadí
### Noun

bita
* (Banawá) mosquito

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Latvian
### Noun

bita
* genitive singular of bits

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²biːtɑ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). Akin to English bite.

#### Alternative forms

* bite (e and split infinitives)

#### Verb

bita (present tense bit, past tense beit, supine biten, past participle biten, present participle bitande, imperative bit, reciprocal bitast)
* to bite

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

bita n
* definite plural of bit (Etymology 3)

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* ᛒᛁᛏᚪ (bita) — Franks Casket

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bitô. See the verb *bītaną (“to bite”).
Cognate with Old Frisian bita, Old High German bizzo (German Bisse), Old Norse biti.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbi.tɑ/

### Noun

bita m (nominative plural bitan)
* bite (of food), mouthful
* biter, one who bites

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Descendants

* English: bit

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bītan.

### Verb

bīta
* to bite

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: (Mooring) bite, (Föhr-Amrum) bitj
* Saterland Frisian:
* West Frisian: bite

## Old High German
### Etymology 1

From the verb bitten.

#### Noun

bita f
* request, inquiry

##### Descendants

* German: Bitte

### Etymology 2

From the verb bītan.

#### Noun

bīta f
* anticipation, expectation, hesitation, wait
* stay

### References

* ↑ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “bʰei̯dʰ-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 12

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

Presumably from bit (“a bite”) or biti (“bit, mouthful”).

#### Verb

bita
* to cut into bits

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

bita
* genitive plural of bit
* inflection of biti:
** oblique singular
** accusative plural
** genitive plural

#### Verb

bita
* first-person singular past subjunctive active of bíta

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną.

### Verb

bita
* bite

#### Descendants

* Swedish: bita

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbi.ta/
* Rhymes: -ita
* Syllabification: bi‧ta

### Participle

bita
* feminine nominative/vocative singular of bity

### Noun

bita m inan
* genitive singular of bit

#### Alternative forms

* bitu

## Sranan Tongo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbi.ta/

### Etymology 1

From English bitter.

#### Adjective

bita
* bitter

#### Noun

bita
* bile

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch bitter.

#### Noun

bita
* a type of strong liquor

## Swazi
### Verb

-bíta
* to call

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).

#### Verb

bita (present biter, preterite bet, supine bitit, imperative bit)
* to bite

##### Related terms

* avbita
* avbitare
* bit
* bita ihop
* bett
* bitning
* bitsocker
* sammanbiten

### Etymology 2

bit (“bit”) +‎ -a; which comes from the same root as the above.

#### Verb

bita (present bitar, preterite bitade, supine bitat, imperative bita)
* to dice, to split into bits (e.g. sugar into cubes)
    Lägg blandade grönsaker som bitats i lergrytans botten.Put mixed vegetables that have been diced in the bottom of the clay pot.

##### Conjugation
### References

* bita in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bita in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bita in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)