beza

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• Hyphenation: be‧za

beza

1. Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, imperative form of izan.

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form ezan instead of izan.

• beda (predominantly in Indonesia)

A hypercorrection thus doublet of beda^[1] from Sanskrit भेद (bheda, “contrast, distinction, difference”), likely influenced by other words with conflation of /d/ and /ð/ (as /dz/) represented originally with the Jawi د dal and ذ dzal respectively (thus بيدا beda ⇆ بيذا bedza) , such as between dikir and zikir both doublets from Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr, “recollection, remembrance”).

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈbezə/ [ˈbe.zə]
  • Rhymes: -ezə, -ə

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈbeza/ [ˈbe.za]
  • Rhymes: -eza, -a
• Hyphenation: be‧za

béza (Jawi spelling بيذا, plural beza-beza)

1. (Malay Peninsula) dissimilarity
2. (Malay Peninsula) difference

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “بيذا bedza”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 68
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “بيذ bedza”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 140
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “bedza”. ibid, page 100.

• “beza” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from German Baiser, from French baiser.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛz.a/

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• Rhymes: -ɛza
• Syllabification: bez‧a

beza f

1. meringue (mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and sugar which is added to the tops of pies then browned)

• beza in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• beza in Polish dictionaries at PWN