باط

From Arabic آبَاط (ʔābāṭ, “armpits”, plural).

• IPA^(key): [bɑːtˤ]

باط • (bāṭ) m (plural باطات (baṭāt))

1. (anatomy) armpit

From Arabic آبَاط (ʔābāṭ, “armpits”, plural). The Hijazi Arabic plural آباط (ʔābāṭ) may be re-loaned from Standard Arabic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːtˤ/

باط • (bāṭ) m (plural آباط (ʔābāṭ))

1. (anatomy) armpit

From Arabic آبَاط (ʔābāṭ, “armpits”, plural) via an intermediate contraction *أَبَاط (*ʔabāṭ) (compare North Levantine Arabic أجار (ʔajār, “reward given as thanks”)).

The full expression تحت باط (taḥt bāṭ) may be the reason for the disappearance of the أ (ʔa-) from *أَبَاط (*ʔabāṭ). The collocation *تحت أباط (*taḥt ʔabāṭ) could have made it easier for the glottal stop to be elided and for the resulting *تحتباط (*taḥtabāṭ) to lose its medial /a/ by syncope, producing modern تحت باط (taḥt bāṭ) and in turn باط (bāṭ).

• IPA^(key): /baːtˤ/ [bɑːtˤ]

باط • (bāṭ) m

1. (anatomy) armpit(s), underarm

   Synonym: تحت باط (taḥt bāṭ)