quit

Etymology 1
From, , from , , from , ultimately from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

Verb

 * 1)  To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
 * 2)  To repay (someone) for (something).
 * 3) * c. 1515–1516, published 1568,, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
 * But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]
 * 1)  To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
 * 2)  To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
 * 3)  To carry through; to go through to the end.
 * 4) * 1595-1609,, Civil Wars
 * Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.
 * 1)  To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
 * 2)  To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
 * 3)  To abandon, renounce (a thing).
 * 4)  To leave (a place).
 * 5)  To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
 * 6)  To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
 * 7)  To close (an application).
 * 1)  To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
 * 2)  To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
 * 3)  To abandon, renounce (a thing).
 * 4)  To leave (a place).
 * 5)  To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
 * 6)  To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
 * 7)  To close (an application).
 * 1)  To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
 * 2)  To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
 * 3)  To close (an application).
 * 1)  To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
 * 2)  To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
 * 3)  To close (an application).
 * 1)  To close (an application).
 * 1)  To close (an application).

Usage notes

 * The usual past tense of quit is now quit in most senses, although dictionaries may allow quitted as an alternative. Quitted is most commonly used to mean "departed", e.g., "Caesar quitted the neighborhood of Rome, and made for Campania with three legions."

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: fel
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: forlasi
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: whakatahi
 * Marathi: सोडून जाणे
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⴼⵍ
 * Ottoman Turkish: براقمق
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: falbh
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: వదలివెళ్ళు
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:, , піти́
 * Urdu: چھوڑنا
 * Yiddish: אַוועקוואַרפֿן


 * Arabic: تَخَلَّى عَن, تَوَقَّفَ,
 * Moroccan Arabic: حبس, صهر
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: tərgitmək
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:, rezigni
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , sein lassen
 * Guaraní: poi
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: linquo
 * Maori: whakamutu
 * Marathi: सोडणे
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: براقمق
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sguir de
 * Slovene:, nehati, obupati
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, , , höra upp
 * Telugu:, వదులుకొను
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: залиша́ти, залиши́ти, зали́шити, полиша́ти, полиши́ти, поли́шити
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ottaa lopputili,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer: ឈប់ពីតំណែង
 * Maori: rīhaina
 * Portuguese: desempregar-se, demitir-se, despedir-se
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , dejarlo
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: звільня́тися, звільни́тися
 * Vietnamese:, bỏ việc


 * Bulgarian:
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: rgel
 * Hungarian:
 * Maori: waiho
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⵔⴳⵍ


 * Indonesian:, ,

Etymology 2
Probably of origin.

Noun

 * 1) Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.