pipit

From Malay pipit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

pipit (plural pipits)

1. Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.

• pihoihoi
• titlark

pipit

1. nominative plural of pipi

• tippi

Borrowed from Malay pipit.

• IPA^(key): /pi.pit/

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pipit m (plural pipits)

1. pipit

• “pipit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpipit/ [ˈpi.pɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ipit
• Syllabification: pi‧pit

Inherited from Malay pipit, from Proto-Malayic *pipit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitpit (“kind of small bird and its cry”).

pipit (plural pipit-pipit)

1. various species of small birds, such as finch, sparrow, munia, etc.

Borrowed from Javanese pipit.

pipit

1. to press

   Synonyms: apit, himpit, jepit

• “pipit”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *pipit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitpit (“kind of small bird and its cry”).

The second sense originated from a comment made by the Crown Prince of Johor, Tunku Ismail Idris: "Kau jangan lupa helang dan pipit terbang tak sama tinggi" (You better not forget that the eagle and the pipit cannot fly on the same height).^[1]

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈpipet/ [ˈpi.pet̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -ipet, -et

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈpipit/ [ˈpi.pit̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -ipit, -it
• Hyphenation: pi‧pit

pipit (Jawi spelling ڤيڤيت, plural pipit-pipit or pipit²)

1. sparrow; finch
2. (Malaysia, slang, politics) commoner, pleb

   Antonym: helang

Generic for many small birds, especially Munia spp., but mostly translated as sparrow.

• > Indonesian: pipit (inherited)
• → English: pipit
• → French: pipit

• "pipit" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

pipit m or n (feminine singular pipită, masculine plural pipiți, feminine/neuter plural pipite)

1. alternative form of pepit

pipit

1. supine of pipa (“to peep”)

Borrowed from Malay pipit (“sparrow”), from Proto-Malayic *pipit, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pitpit (“kind of small bird and its cry”), likely of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Cebuano pitpit.

Alternatively, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pipiqit (“kind of small bird, probably finch or sparrow”). Compare Ilocano pipiit.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /piˈpit/ [pɪˈpɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: pi‧pit

pipít (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒᜆ᜔)

1. pipit (passerine bird from the genus Anthus)

• “pipit”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “pipit”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pitpit”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pipiqit”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• pipet (colloquial)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpɪt/

pipit

1. (literary) second-person singular conditional of pipo