baht

See also: вант

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑːt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt

Etymology 1

From Thai บาท (bàat).

Alternative forms

• bat (dated)

Noun

baht (plural baht or bahts)

1. The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.

Derived terms

• baht bus

Translations

unit of currency

• Arabic: بَات m (bāt)
• Burmese: ဘတ် (my) (bhat)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 泰銖 / 泰铢 (taai³ zyu¹), 泰匹 (taai³ pat¹)

  Mandarin: 泰銖 / 泰铢 (zh) (Tài zhū)

• Finnish: baht (fi)
• French: baht (fr) m
• Greek: μπατ (bat)
• Hindi: बात (hi) (bāt)
• Hungarian: bát (hu)
• Japanese: バーツ (ja) (bātsu)
• Khmer: បាត (km) (baat)
• Korean: 밧 (bat)
• Lao: ບາດ (bāt)
• Malay: kop (ms), kok (ms)
• Maori: pāta
• Persian: بات (fa) (bât)
• Polish: bat (pl) m
• Portuguese: baht (pt) m
• Russian: бат (ru) m (bat)
• Slovak: baht m
• Spanish: baht (es) m
• Thai: บาท (th) (bàat), (sign) ฿ (th) (bàat)
• Urdu: بات (bāt)
• Vietnamese: bạt (vi)
• Volapük: bagt (vo)
• White Hmong: npam

Etymology 2

Spelling pronunciation of but.

Adverb

baht (not comparable)

1. (Yorkshire, Cheshire) Without.
   • c. 1850s–70s, On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at (song)
   • 1881, Ben Preston, Dialect and Other Poems‎^[1], page 19:

     Thear's boan-idle nowbles, baht hahses an' lands, 'at al walk on a carpeted path, an' nivver do nowt wi' ther lily-white hands bud lift uther fowk's jock to ther maath.

   • 1884, William Cudworth (of Bradford), Yorkshire Dialect and Character Sketches‎^[2], page 15:

     Hah's a growing lad to thrive baht jock?

   • 1886, Robert Holland, A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester‎^[3], page 467:

     Jud put'em i' his poke baht sayingk owt. "Nay, mon!" ses Jock, "tha winnat goo hwon baht gieingk me th' brass for th' pattens, wilt a? Thah'rt welly drunk!"

   • 1893, Keighley Snowden, Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds‎^[4], page 127:

     "Ho'd thi din," cried Dave Berry, thickly. "Ther's noise enew baht thy blether.

Etymology 3

Spelling pronunciation of (a)bout.

Preposition

baht

1. (Yorkshire) About.

Etymology 4

Spelling pronunciation of bout.

Noun

baht (plural bahts)

1. (Yorkshire) Bout (of an illness, a fight, etc).

Anagrams

• BTHA, Ba'th, Bath, Bhat, bath

French

Etymology

From Thai บาท (bàat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

baht m (plural bahts)

1. baht (unit of currency)

Further reading

• “baht”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Thai บาท (bàat).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.t͡ʃi/, /ˈbat͡ʃ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.t͡ʃi/, /ˈbat͡ʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbat͡ʃ/, /ˈba.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbat/

• Hyphenation: baht

Noun

baht m (plural bahts)

1. baht (unit of currency)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بخت (baht), from Persian بخت (baxt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâxt/

Noun

bȁht m (Cyrillic spelling ба̏хт)

1. (regional, expressively) luck

Declension

Declension of baht

	singular	plural
nominative	baht	bahtovi
genitive	bahta	bahtova
dative	bahtu	bahtovima
accusative	baht	bahtove
vocative	bahte	bahtovi
locative	bahtu	bahtovima
instrumental	bahtom	bahtovima

References

• “baht”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Thai บาท (bàat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baːt]

Noun

baht m inan

1. (numismatics) baht (unit of currency)

Declension

Declension of baht (pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	baht	bahty
genitive	bahtu	bahtov
dative	bahtu	bahtom
accusative	baht	bahty
locative	bahte	bahtoch
instrumental	bahtom	bahtmi

Further reading

• “baht”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Noun

baht m (plural bahts)

1. baht

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian بخت (baxt).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

baht (definite accusative bahtı, plural bahtlar)

1. luck

   Synonym: şans

2. fortune

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	baht
Definite accusative	bahtı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	baht	bahtlar
Definite accusative	bahtı	bahtları
Dative	bahta	bahtlara
Locative	bahtta	bahtlarda
Ablative	bahttan	bahtlardan
Genitive	bahtın	bahtların

Derived terms

• bahtsız
• bahtı açık (“fortunate”)
• bahtı kara (“having ill luck”)
• bahtına küsmek (“be cross with one's luck”)