biʼbiʼ

Makasar

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bitbit (“pull at body part; hold something dangling from the fingers”), from Proto-Austronesian *bitbit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiʔbiʔ/, [ˈɓiʔ.ɓiʔ]
• Hyphenation: biʼ‧biʼ

Noun

biʼbiʼ (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨅᨗ)

1. rind (skin of fruit, tree); bark; peel

   Biʼbiʼ unti ― Banana peel.

2. shell (of egg, crustacean)

   Baʼbiʼ bayao ― Egg shell.

Verb

biʼbiʼ (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨅᨗ, semi-transitive ammiʼbiʼ)

1. (transitive) to peel or shell with the fingers; to remove the outer covering, the skin or shell of something using the fingers or fingertips (e.g., fish)

Synonyms

• baʼbiʼ

Affixations

• ammiʼbiʼ
• pabiʼbiʼ
• sibiʼbiʼ
• taʼbiʼbiʼ

 

Compounds

• biʼbiʼ-biʼbiʼ miong

 

Further reading

• A. A. Cense (2024) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎^[1], Brill, →DOI