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

Affixations

Compounds

  • biʼbiʼ-biʼbiʼ miong

Further reading

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