bid

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Translingual

Symbol

bid

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bidiyo.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Bidiyo terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”) (see Etymology 2 below).

Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden ("to pray"), German bitten, Danish bede, Norwegian Bokmål be.

Verb

bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past bid or bade or bad, past participle bid or bidden)

1. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
2. (transitive) To invite; to summon.
3. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.

Usage notes

The inflected forms bade, bad, and bidden are becoming less common (outside certain set phrases like “bade farewell”) than uninflected bid.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede.

Verb

bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past and past participle bid)

1. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.

2. (transitive) To offer as a price.

3. (intransitive) To make an attempt.

4. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
5. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
6. (transitive, intransitive, trucking) To take a particular route regularly.

   I can’t believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!

7. simple past and past participle of bid

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

bid (plural bids)

1. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.

2. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.

3. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
4. (trucking) A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.

   I can’t stand this new bid I’m on, even if the mileage is better.

5. (prison slang) A prison sentence.
   • 2007, Psych (TV series):

     So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• DBI, DIB, Dib, IBD, IDB, dib

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bidden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bət/, [bət]

Verb

bid (present bid, present participle biddende, past participle gebid)

1. to pray

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Cimbrian

Etymology

Related to German Weide (“willow; wicker”).

Noun

bid m (plural biddar, diminutive biddale)

1. (Sette Comuni) wicker, osier

Declension

References

• “bid” 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

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bit n, from Proto-Germanic *bitą. Derived from the verb *bītaną (“to bite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ið]
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bid n (singular definite biddet, plural indefinite bid)

1. bite (act of biting)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse biti m, from Proto-Germanic *bitô, cognate with German Bissen. Derived from the verb *bītaną (“to bite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ið]

Noun

bid c (singular definite bidden, plural indefinite bidder)

1. bit, morsel
2. bite, mouthful

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥iˀð], [ˈb̥iðˀ]

Verb

bid

1. imperative of bide

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bid

1. inflection of bidden:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːd/

Verb

bīd

1. singular imperative of bīdan

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bith

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʲiðʲ]

Verb

bid

1. inflection of is:
   1. third-person singular past subjunctive
   2. third-person singular future

Noun

bid

1. accusative/dative singular of buith (“being”)

Mutation

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbit/
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: bid
• Homophones: Bid, bit

Noun

bid f

1. genitive plural of bida

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bid]

Noun

bid (nominative plural bids)

1. (taxonomy) genus
2. sort; kind; type
3. race

Declension

Synonyms

• sot

Derived terms

• bidäd
• bidädik
• bidanem
• bidik
• filigabid
• garidabid
• hügien bidädik
• kaktudabid
• menabid
• menabidädahet
• menabidädakomip
• menabidädihet
• nimabid
• planabid
• vödabid

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

bid

1. (literary) third-person singular imperative of bod

Synonyms

• bydded
• boed

Mutation

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pit˧/
• Tone numbers: bid⁸
• Hyphenation: bid

Noun

bid (Sawndip forms 䖩 or 𧏻, 1957–1982 spelling bid)

1. cicada

   Synonyms: (dialectal) biqrengh, (dialectal) nengzceq