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amit

/əˈmɪt/

amit verb: to lose.

Verb

amit (third-person singular simple present amits, present participle amitting, simple past and past participle amitted)

  1. (obsolete) To lose.
    • And though a loadstone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue, and according to the position in cooling contracts a new verticity from the earth, yet if the same be laid awhile in aqua fortis, or other corrosive water, and taken out before a considerable corrosion, it still reserves its...1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Concerning the Loadstone
    • […] and in the event of the said O. H. failing so to complete his title and grant entry to the petitioner, or to shew reasonable cause why he delays or refuses so to do, to find and declare that the said G. H. has forfeited and amitted all right to the said superiority […]1848, Alexander Duff, Commentaries on the recent statutes relative to conveyancing

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Amit

Amit

  1. A male given name from Sanskrit.
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Amitabh, from Sanskrit.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Amit

Amit

  1. A male given name from Hebrew.

amit meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam and Gujarati

amit in Bengali

অমিতের কাছে

amit in Telugu

అమిత్కి, అమిత్

amit in Malayalam

അമിത്തിനോട്

amit in Gujarati

અમિતને
More languagesFewer languages
amit in Nepali
अमितलाई

Forms of amit

third-person singular presentamits
present participleamitting
past participleamitted
pastamitted

Origin of amit

From Latin āmittō (“to lose, to send away”).

Transliteration of Hindi अमित (amit), Marathi अमित (amit), Gujarati અમિત (amit), Bengali অমিত (omito), etc.

Transliteration of Hebrew עָמִית ('amít).

Questions about amit

What does amit mean?
Amit means to lose.
What is amit in Bengali?
Amit in Bengali is অমিতের কাছে. See Amit meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is amit?
Amit can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce amit?
Amit is pronounced /əˈmɪt/.
What is the past tense of amit?
The past tense of amit is amitted.

Words near amit in the dictionary

  1. amission
  2. amissness
  3. Amistad
  4. Amistads
  5. amisulpride
  6. amit
  7. Amitabh
  8. Amitabha
  9. Amitabhas
  10. Amite
  11. Amite City

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amit (page history and authors); Amit (page history and authors); amit (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); amit (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); amit (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); amit (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); amit (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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