bé

bé (Balinese script ᬩᬾ)

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

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

Inherited from Latin bene.

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

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• Rhymes: -e

bé

1. well

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

bé m (plural béns)

1. good, valuable object
2. satisfactory grade (at school)
3. good (quality of being good)
4. virtue

• bo, bon

• “bé”, in Diccionari 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”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bé” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bé” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• biau

Inherited from Old French bel, from Latin bellus.

• IPA^(key): /be/

bé m (feminine belle, plural bés)

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 a sheep)

bé n (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/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 (plural bés)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

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

For pronunciation and definitions of bé – see 買 (“to buy; to purchase”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 買).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeː]

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• Hyphenation: bé
• Rhymes: -beː

bé

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
2. (music) bemol, the sign ♭

   Hypernym: módosítójel

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

bé

1. (poetic or dialectal) alternative form of be (“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 to b and be in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /pjɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː

bé n (genitive singular bés, nominative plural bé)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

• IPA^(key): /bʲeː/

From Old Irish bé, from Proto-Celtic *ben, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).

bé f (genitive singular bé, nominative plural béithe)

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

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

• bean (“woman”)

From Latin bē.

bé

1. The name of the Latin-script letter b/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”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bé”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bé”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /bʲeː/

From Proto-Celtic *ben, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).

bé f

1. (poetic) woman

   Synonyms: banscál, ben, frac

• bé carna (“harlot”)

• Irish: bé

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• ·bǽ, ·bée

·bé

1. second/third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of at·tá

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

• béé, bééé (etc.)

bé

1. (onomatopoeia) baa (cry of sheep)

   Synonym: mé

From Latin bibō, bibere.

bé

1. to drink

bé m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/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 the Latin-script letter B/b.

Derived from Old 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; very young

   Synonym: nhỏ

   Antonyms: lớn, to

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

3. (of sound) small, barely audible

   Synonym: nhỏ

   Antonyms: lớn, to

bé

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

bé

1. you, little child
2. (informal) you, young person
3. (informal) you, young girl

• trẻ

• IPA^(key): [ᵐbe]

bé

1. brother