köken: From Middle French bider (“to trot”), of unknown ultimate origin, + -et. Possibly related to Medieval Italian bidetto (“small horse”), itself probably related to Proto-West Germanic *biti (“bite; horse's bit”); or, possibly from a lost Middle French rabider (“go quickly, violently”), a descendant of Latin rabidus (“furious, fierce”), with loss of the initial prefix. Modern sense derives from…
soort van aan de muur bevestigde kom of bak voor het met behulp van water reinigen van de geslachtsdelen, billen en anus na gebruik van het toilet, of om de voeten te wassen
a bidet that only cleans a woman's genitals, or such a function on a general-purpose bidet (this term has a more narrow meaning than "bidet" in English)