debat

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /dəˈbat/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /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, 2023
• “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.

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

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, rare) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ebat̪̚]
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪əbat̪̚]
• Hyphenation: dé‧bat

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

1. debate: an argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.

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

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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