bê

• Rhymes: -e

bê

1. if

   Da’ bê bəŋ lú áá, tə gaə gɔ tú’ shyə̄. ― Only if rain falls will I draw water.

• Gaston Bessala Ndzana Biloa & Francine Moguo Fotso, The conditional mood in Ghɔmala’ (2017)

bê

1. nonstandard spelling of bê̄

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Related to Persian بی (bi).

• Rhymes: -eː

bê

1. without

• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: bê

bê m (plural bês)

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

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; á, bê, cê, dê, é / ê, efe / fê, gê / guê, agá, i, jota / ji, cá / capa, ele / lê, eme / mê, ene / nê, ó / ô, pê, quê, erre / rê, esse, tê, u, vê, dáblio / dâblio / duplo vê, xis, ípsilon / i grego, zê

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓe˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓej˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓej˧˧]

Onomatopoetic.

(classifier con) bê • (𠶎)

1. calf, young bovine

   Synonym: bò con

   thịt bê ― veal

• bò

bê • (𠶎)

1. (onomatopoeia) The cry of a calf

bê

1. to carry with both hands
2. (colloquial) to interlard

Borrowed from French bé.

bê

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

• The onset consonant /p/ does not occur in native Vietnamese phonology, and every word containing it is a loanword. Most Vietnamese people, especially southerners, find difficulty in differentiating it from /ɓ/, as they cannot articulate /p/. There are some ways to tell the two apart, or to tell the letters b and p apart, including using expressions like bê bò (literally “b as in bò”) and bê phở (literally “p as in phở”).

• bờ; bê bò (1)
• phê; bê phở (2)

Compare Northern Kurdish bê

bê

1. without