bant

• Rhymes: -ænt

Back-formation from banting.

bant (third-person singular simple present bants, present participle banting, simple past and past participle banted)

1. (colloquial, now rare) To regulate what one eats according to the precepts of William Banting; to go on a diet. [from 19th c.]
   • 1865 June 12, Pall Mall Gazette:

     If he is […] gouty, obese, and nervous, we strongly recommend him to ‘bant.’

   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 70, in Of Human Bondage:

     ‘I'm so sorry,’ she cried, jumping up. ‘I shall have to bant if I can't break myself of this habit of sitting on gentlemen's knees.’

   • 1969, Graham Greene, chapter 7, in Travels with my Aunt:

     ‘I have certainly never banted for the sake of a woman,’ I said jokingly.

Clipping of banter.

bant (uncountable)

1. (slang) Clipping of banter.

• banting

From Middle High German want, from Old High German want, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod, stick; barrier made of sticks, fence”). Cognate with German Wand, Dutch wand, Icelandic vendi.

bant f (plural bénte) (Sette Comuni)

1. wall, partition

   De bénte zeint de innanten maurn bon hòizarn.

   The partitions are the inner walls of houses.

2. twelve fathoms

• “bant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

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• Rhymes: -ɑnt

bant

1. inflection of bannen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

• bana, banet

bant

1. past participle of bane (Etymology 3)

Borrowed from Middle High German bant.^[1][2][3] First attested in 1394.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /bant/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bant/

bant m animacy unattested

1. ring in the rocker of doors used as a basic hinge
   • 1874 [1394], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące‎^[2], volume XV, page 63:

     Pro III instrumentis dictis banthy, in quibus hostia dependent

     [Pro III instrumentis dictis banty, in quibus hostia dependent]

2. (attested in Lesser Poland) rafter bolt
   • 1879-1920 [1461], Sprawozdania Komisji do Badania Historii Sztuki w Polsce‎^[3], volume V, Krakow, page XXIX:

     Emi sexagenam tignorum super banthi

     [Emi sexagenam tignorum super banty]

• Polish: bant
• Silesian: bant

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “bant”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: bant
• Homophone: band

Inherited from Old Polish bant. Doublet of bandy.

• banta

bant m inan

1. (nautical) posted beam (wide cloth strip sewn onto sails to increase durability)
2. (Przemyśl) crossbeam connecting rafters
3. (obsolete) ring, band

   Synonyms: obręcz, opaska

4. (Middle Polish) rafter bolt

   Hypernym: belka

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bant f

1. genitive plural of banta

• bant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bant”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Danuta Lankiewicz (17.06.2020) “*BANT, *BANTA, BANDA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “bant”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “bant”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bant”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 95
• M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Bant on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl
• bant in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Aleksander Saloni (1899) “banty”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 237

Inherited from Old Polish bant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbant/

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• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: bant

bant m inan

1. hinge (jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.)

   Synonym: bantka

2. (construction) small beam connecting rafters

• Bogdan Kallus (2020) “bant”, in Słownik Gōrnoślōnskij Gŏdki, IV edition, Chorzów: Pro Loquela Silesiana, →ISBN, page 238
• Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “bant”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 42

From French bande.

IPA^(key): /ˈbant/

bant (definite accusative bandı, plural bantlar)

1. tape

• “bant”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

• IPA^(key): /bant/
• Rhymes: -ant

From i bant (“to (the) hollow/valley”).

bant

1. (South Wales, colloquial) away, off

   Gyrrodd e bant heb ddweud gair

   He drove away / off, without saying a word

   Synonym: i ffwrdd

2. (South Wales, colloquial) off (not in an operating state)

   Ydy'r cyfrifiadur bant?

   Is the computer off?

   Synonym: i ffwrdd

   Antonym: ymlaen

• amser bant (“time away, time off”)
• bant â hi (“slapdash”)
• bant â'r cart (“off we go”)
• diwrnod bant (“day away, day off”)

As bant is already the soft mutation of pant, it cannot be further mutated.

bant

1. soft mutation of pant