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1a house, building; b tent (of nomads); c room; d apartment, flat; 2 (garden) bed; 3 family; 4 case, box, covering, sheath; pl. buyūtāt, 5 large, respectable houses; 6 respectable families; 7 pl. ʔabyāt, verse – WehrCowan1979.

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▪ From protSem *bayt‑ ‘house’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘house’) Akk bītu, Hbr báyiṯ, Syr baytā, Gz bēt.
▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BYT (commSem ‘tente, maison’): Akk bīt- (ass. bēt-), Ug bt, Phoen Pun Moab bt, Hbr bayit (cstr. bēt), oAram Nab Palm byt, by, Ḥaṭ bt, Ya byt, JP baytā, bētā, bā, bē, nSyr Ur bētā, Aysor bēta, Ar bayt, Tham byt, bt ‘maison, tribu’; Liḥ byt ‘maison, temple’; DaṯAr bayt ‘forteresse’; SAr byt ‘maison, fort, temple’; Soq beyt ‘maison de pierre’; Mhr beyt, bēt, Śḥr būt, ūt, Gz Amh Tña Te bet ‘maison’; Syr bāt, Ar bāta, Tham bt, byt, bṯ (!), Liḥ bt ‘passer la nuit’.
▪ Outside Sem, Borg2021 #64 (b-y-t) compares Eg bt (NK) ‘house, clan, family’ (Hoch 1994: 113–115; DLE I 142) ~ b-i͗-ti͗-i͗ ‘my house’ = baytī < NWS (Steiner 2011: 36).
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl beta and alphabet, from Grk bēta, second letter of the Grk alphabet, from Phoen *bēt ‘house; second letter of the Phoen alphabet’, akin to Ar bayt.
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl bethel, from Hbr bêt ʔēl ‘house of God’, from bêt, bound form of bayit ‘house’, and ʔēl ‘God’ (cf. Ar ↗ʔilāh, ↗allāh). Bethlehem, from Hbr bêt-leḥem ‘house of bread’ (cf. Ar ↗laḥm).

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►bayt al-ʔibraẗ, n., (navigator’s) compass;
►ʔahl al-bayt, n., family, specif., the family of the Prophet;
►ʔahl al-buyūtāt, n., people from good, respectable families;
►buyūtāt al-tiǧāriyyaẗ, n.pl., commercial houses;
►al-bayt al-ḥarām, n., the Kaaba;
►bayt al-ḫalāʔ and bayt al-ʔadab, n., toilet, water closet;
►bayt al-dāʔ, n., origin or seat of the disease;
►bayt rīfī, n., country house;
►bayt al-qaṣīdaẗ and bayt al-qaṣīd, n., 1 (the essential, principal verse of the kasida, i.e.) the quintessence; 2a the gist, the essentials, the hit of s.th.; b s.th. that stands out from the rest, the right thing;
►bēt al-laḥm, baytallaḥm, n., Bethlehem;
►al-bayt al-mālikī, n., the ruling house;
►bayt al-māl, n., 1 treasure house; 2 fisc, treasury, exchequer (Isl. Law); 3 (Tun.) administration of vacant Muslim estates

►^BP#1079bāta, i (mabīt), vb. I, 1a to pass or spend the night; b to stay overnight; 2a to become; b to be (li- in a situation); c with foll., imperf.: to get into a situation, get to the point where; d to continue to do s.th., go on or keep doing s.th., stick to s.th.: G-stem, denom. (?)
►bayyata, vb. II, 1a to brood (by night; a about s.th.); b to put up for the night (s.o.); 2 to contrive, hatch (an evil plan, li- against s.o.), plot (li- against s.o.): D-stem | ~ fī al-ṣaff, vb., (eg.) to flunk, fail promotion (pupil)
►ʔabāta, vb. IV, to put up for the night (s.o.): *Š-stem

►baytī, adj., 1 domestic, private, home, of the house, house- (in compounds); 2 domesticated (animals); 3 homemade: nsb-adj.
►buwayt, pl. -āt, n., 1 small house; 2 small tent: dimin.
►bayyāt, n., pl. -ūn, and bayyātaẗ, n.f., 1 boarder (student); 2 pl. -ūn, pupil of a boarding school (tun.): n.prof.
►bayyūt, adj., stale, old: ints. formation
►mabīt, n., 1a overnight stop, overnight stay; b shelter for the night: n.loc.
►bāʔit, adj., 1 stale, old; 2 (eg.) not promoted, fī al-ṣaff, in school: PA I
►mubayyit, n., plotter, schemer, intrigant: PA II

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