bé (Balinese scriptᬩᬾ)

1. fish
2. meat,fish,tofu,egg(everything that is eaten with rice except vegetables)

• “be” inBalinese–Indonesian Dictionary[Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Inherited fromLatinbene.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)[ˈbe]

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• Rhymes:-e

bé

1. well

• The formben is used when it precedes the adjective, adverb or verb form that it modifies, andbé is used in all other cases.

bé m (pluralbéns)

1. good,valuableobject
2. satisfactorygrade(at school)
3. good(quality of being good)
4. virtue

• bo,bon

• “bé”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bé”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
• “bé” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bé” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• biau

Inherited fromOld Frenchbel, fromLatinbellus.

• IPA^(key): /be/

bé m (femininebelle,pluralbés)

1. (Troyen, Rémois, Langrois)beautiful

• Daunay, Jean (1998),Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885),Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛː]

bé

1. baa(the cry of asheep)

bé n (indeclinable)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterB/b.

• (Latin-script letter names)písmeno;á,bé,cé,dé,é,ef,gé,há,chá,í,jé,ká,el,em,en,ó,pé,kvé,er,es,té,ú,vé,dvojité vé,iks,ypsilon,zet

• IPA^(key): /be/

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bé m (pluralbés)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterB/b.

• “bé”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeː]

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• Hyphenation:bé
• Rhymes:-beː

bé

1. The name of theLatin-script letterB/b.
2. (music)bemol, the sign♭

   Hypernym:módosítójel

   Coordinate terms:kereszt,kettős kereszt,kettős bé,feloldójel

bé

1. (poetic or dialectal)alternative form ofbe(“in”)

• (Latin-script letter names)betű;a,á,bé,cé,csé,dé,dzé,dzsé,e,é,eff,gé,gyé,há,i,í,jé,ká,ell,ellipszilon /elly /ejj,emm,enn,enny,o,ó,ö,ő,pé,kú,err,ess,essz,té,tyé,u,ú,ü,ű,vé,dupla vé /vevé,iksz,ipszilon,zé,zsé. (See also:Latin script letters.)

• (letter name):(1):b in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
• (adverb):bé in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
• bé, partly redirecting tob andbe in Nóra Ittzés, editor,A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031(work in progress; publisheda–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /pjɛː/
• Rhymes:-ɛː

bé n (genitive singularbés,nominative pluralbé)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterB/b.

• IPA^(key): /bʲeː/

FromOld Irishbé, fromProto-Celtic*ben, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷḗn(“woman”).

bé f (genitive singularbé,nominative pluralbéithe)

1. (literary)woman,maiden
2. beautifulwoman
3. muse(inspiration for artist)

• Bé(“Muse”)
• bé choille(“nymph”)
• bé-iasc(“damselfish”)
• folt bé(“maidenhair”)

• bean(“woman”)

FromLatinbē.

bé

1. The name of theLatin-script letterb/B.

• (Latin-script letter names)litir;á,bé,cé,dé,é,eif,gé,héis,í,jé,cá,eil,eim,ein,ó,pé,cú,ear,eas,té,ú,vé,wae,ex,yé,zae
• Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bé”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bé”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “bé”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bé”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge,2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲeː/

FromProto-Celtic*ben, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷḗn(“woman”).

bé f

1. (poetic)woman

   Synonyms:banscál,ben,frac

• bé carna(“harlot”)

• Irish:bé

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

• ·bǽ,·bée

·bé

1. second/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctiveconjunct ofat·tá

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bé”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• béé,bééé(etc.)

bé

1. (onomatopoeia)baa(cry of sheep)

   Synonym:mé

FromLatinbibō, bibere.

bé

1. todrink

bé m orf (invariable)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterB/b.

• (Latin-script letter names)lètra;a,bé,cé,dé,e,ëffe,ge,àcca /àca,i,i lóng,càpa,ëlle,èmme,ènne,o,pé,cu,ërre,ësse,té,u,vé,dópi vé /dópi vu /vu dópi,ics,i gréc /ìpsilon,zéta

bé

1. The name of theLatin-script letterB/b.

Derived fromOld Chinese庳(*beʔ) (SV:ti,tì).

• (Hà Nội)IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛ˧˦]
• (Huế)IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon)IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛ˦˥]

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bé• (𡮣,𡭬,𡮤)

1. small;little;tiny

   Synonym:nhỏ

   Antonyms:lớn,to

2. little; veryyoung

   Synonym:nhỏ

   Antonyms:lớn,to

   hồi bé ―when I/he/she/we was/were little

3. (of sound)small, barelyaudible

   Synonym:nhỏ

   Antonyms:lớn,to

bé

1. short forem bé(“baby”)
2. (informal, men's speech)girl;chick

bé

1. you,littlechild
2. (informal) you,youngperson
3. (informal) you,younggirl

• trẻ

• IPA^(key): [ᵐbe]

bé

1. brother

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