debat

• IPA^(key): (Central) [dəˈβat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [dəˈbat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [deˈbat]

debat m (plural debats)

1. debate

• debatre

• “debat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “debat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “debat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “debat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

debat

1. inflection of debatre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From French débat.

debat c (singular definite debatten, plural indefinite debatter)

1. debate

• “debat” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch debat, tebat. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /deːˈbɑt/, /dəˈbɑt/

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• Hyphenation: de‧bat
• Rhymes: -ɑt

debat n (plural debatten, diminutive debatje n)

1. debate; argument or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting

• discussie

• → Indonesian: debat

Inherited from Malay debat, from Dutch debat, from Middle Dutch debat, tebat, from Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuere (“to beat, to fence”).

• (Standard Indonesian, rare) IPA^(key): /ˈdebat/ [ˈde.bat̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -ebat
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /dəˈbat/ [dəˈbat̪̚]
• Syllabification: de‧bat

débat (plural debat-debat, first-person possessive debatku, second-person possessive debatmu, third-person possessive debatnya)

1. debate

• perbahasan (Standard Malay)
• sawala

• “debat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Dutch debat, from Middle Dutch debat, tebat, from Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuere (“to beat, to fence”).

• IPA^(key): /dəbat/, /debat/
• Rhymes: -bat, -at

debat (Jawi spelling ديبت, plural debat-debat, informal 1st possessive debatku, 2nd possessive debatmu, 3rd possessive debatnya)

1. A debate.

   Synonym: bahas

• “debat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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debat m (plural debats)

1. debate

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.bat/
• Rhymes: -ɛbat
• Syllabification: de‧bat

debat

1. genitive plural of debata