# بيت
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *bayt-.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is "verse" a semantical evolution”)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bajt/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

بَيْت • (bayt) m (plural بُيُوت (buyūt) or بُيُوتَات (buyūtāt))
* house, building
* tent (dwelling)
* room, apartment, flat
* commercial house
* settlement, decision, scheme
* garden bed
* family, dynasty
* box, case, covering, sheath

##### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: بيت (bēt)
* Gulf Arabic: بيت (bēt)
* Hijazi Arabic: بيت (bēt)
* Maltese: bejt
* Moroccan Arabic: بيت (bīt), بيت (bayt)
* → Azerbaijani: beyt
* → Malay: bait
* → Persian: بیت (beyt)
** → Urdu: بیت (bait)

#### Noun

بَيْت • (bayt) m (plural أَبْيَات (ʔabyāt))
* (poetry) verse, couplet, distich

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: beyt
* → Persian: بیت (beyt)
** → Urdu: بیت (bait)
* → Ottoman Turkish: بیت (beyt, beyit)
** > Turkish: beyit (inherited)
* → Uyghur: بېيىت (bëyit)
* → Uzbek: bayt

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baj.ja.ta/

#### Verb

بَيَّتَ • (bayyata) II (non-past يُبَيِّتُ (yubayyitu), verbal noun تَبْيِيت (tabyīt))
* to brood
* to contrive, to hatch (a plan, plot)
* to put (someone) up for the night
* to flunk, to fail (in school)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

بِيتَ • (bīta) (form I) /biː.ta/
* third-person masculine singular past passive of بَاتَ (bāta)

#### References

* Wehr, Hans (1979) “بيت”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic بَيْت (bayt).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beːt/, [be̞ːt]

#### Noun

بيت • (bēt) m (plural بِيُوت (biyūt) or بيوت (buyūt))
* house, building
* commercial house
* family, dynasty

### Etymology 2

From Arabic بَيَّتَ (bayyata).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baj.jat/

#### Verb

بَيَّت • (bayyat) II (non-past يِبَيِّت (yibayyit))
* to stay out overnight

##### Conjugation
## Malay
### Noun

بيت (plural بيت-بيت or بيت٢, informal 1st possessive بيتکو, 2nd possessive بيتمو, 3rd possessive بيتڽ)
* Jawi spelling of bait (“house”)‎.

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic بَيْت (bayt).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biːt/, /bajt/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

بِيت or بَيْت • (bīt or bayt) m (plural بيوت (byūt) or بيوتة (byūta))
* room

##### Derived terms

* بيت الخزين (bīt le-ḵzīn)
* بيت الراحة (bīt er-rāḥa)
* بيت الصابون (bīt eṣ-ṣabun)
* بيت الضياف (bīt le-glas)
* بيت الما (bīt el-mā)
* بيت النعاس (bīt le-glas)
* بيت لخلا (bīt el-xla)
* بيت لڭلاس (bīt le-glas)

### Etymology 2

From Arabic بَيَّتَ (bayyata).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baj.jat/

#### Verb

بيت • (bayyat) II (non-past يبيت (ybayyat))
* to put up someone for the night
* to provide lodging

##### Conjugation
## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَيْت (bayt).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beːt/, [beːt]
* Audio (Amman):(file)

### Noun

بيت • (bēt) m (plural بيوت (byūt))
* house, home
    Synonym: دار (dār)
    صاحب البيت ― ṣāḥeb il-bēt ― the landlord (literally, “the owner of the house”)
    Audio (Ramallah):(file)
* case (container)
    بيت النضارات ― bēt in-naḍḍārāt ― glasses case
    بيت مخدة ― bēt mḵadde ― pillowcase
    Audio (Ramallah):(file)