bint

Forms of bint

Origin of bint

Borrowed from Arabic بِنْت (bint, “girl, daughter”), from Proto-Semitic *bint-, used to denote a patronym. The term entered the British lexicon during the occupation of Egypt at the end of the 19th century, where it was adopted by British soldiers to mean "girlfriend" or "bit on the side". Its register varies from that of the harsher bitch to being affectionate, the latter more commonly associated with the West Midlands. The term was used in British armed forces and the London area synonymously with bird in its slang usage (and sometimes brass) from at least the 1950s. (In the Tyneside shipping industry, particularly in Laygate, in South Shields, the term may have been adopted earlier, from the Yemeni community which had existed there since the 1890s.)

Words that rhyme with bint

• print
• flint
• splint
• squint
• hint
• quint
• stint
• mint
• tint
• blueprint
• glint
• lint

Questions about bint

What does bint mean?

Bint means a woman, a girl.

What part of speech is bint?

Bint is a noun.

How do you pronounce bint?

Bint is pronounced /bɪnt/.

What is the plural of bint?

The plural of bint is bints.