bebe

bebe

1. woman

• A Dumagat (Casiguran) - English Dictionary, Pacific Linguistics: Series C, No. 28 (as bébe)
• ABVD (as bɨ'beq)
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (as bə-be)

bebe

1. butterfly

bebe

1. inflection of beber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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bebe

1. inflection of beben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

From French bébé (“baby”).

• IPA^(key): /beˈbe/

bebe

1. baby

bebe

1. baby

• baby

• bebai (obsolete)

From earlier bebai, from Proto-Philippine *baybay. Compare Tagalog baybay.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbebe/ [ˈbɛː.bɛː]
• Hyphenation: be‧be

bébé

1. seashore
2. riverbank
3. mountainside

• IPA^(key): /ˈbebe/, [ˈɓɛ.bɛ]
• Hyphenation: be‧be

bebe (Lontara spelling ᨅᨙᨅᨙ)

1. drool

• piʼru (saliva)
• iloroʼ (moisture in the mouth)

• A. A. Cense (2024) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎^[1], Brill, →DOI

From Portuguese beber and Spanish beber and Kabuverdianu bebi.

bebe

1. to drink

bebe

1. inflection of beber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French bébé and also influenced by English baby.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.be/, /beˈbe/

bebe m (uncountable)

1. baby, infant

   Synonyms: bebeluș, copilaș

• IPA^(key): /ˈbebe/ [ˈbe.β̞e]

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• Rhymes: -ebe
• Syllabification: be‧be

Variant of bebé.

bebe m (plural bebes, feminine beba, feminine plural bebas)

1. (Peru) baby

   Synonyms: bebé, wawa

bebe

1. inflection of beber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “bebe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Probably from Fon gbɛ̀gbɛ́-tín (“Pterocarpus tree”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bebe/, [bɪ̞bɪ̞], [be̝be̝]

bebe

1. any tree of the genus Pterocarpus

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbebe/ [ˈbɛː.bɛ]
• Rhymes: -ebe
• Syllabification: be‧be

bebe (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ) (colloquial)

1. alternative form of beybi

From Indonesian bebek.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbe.be]

bebe

1. a duck

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

bebe

1. grandchild

• IPA^(key): /be.bɛ/, [be̞ˈbɛ]

bebe (definite accusative bebeyi, plural bebeler)

1. (dialectal) child, kid, baby
2. (dialectal, derogatory) Brat

Reduplication of be (“water”).

• IPA^(key): /be.ˈbe/

bebe

1. (transitive, informal) to drink

   Synonym: joube (polite)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics (as bebé)