bies

From Middle Dutch biese, from Old Dutch *biesa, from Proto-West Germanic *beusu.

• IPA^(key): /bis/

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• Hyphenation: bies
• Rhymes: -is

bies f (plural biezen, diminutive biesje n)

1. a bulrush, club-rush; any of various plants from the genera Scirpus, Schoenoplectus or Bolboschoenus, particularly Schoenoplectus
2. piping (on a seam)

• → Indonesian: bis

Compare German böse.

bies

1. (Erzgebirgisch) evil, malicious
2. (Erzgebirgisch) bad, naughty
3. (Erzgebirgisch) angry

   Bisste bies?

   Are you angry?

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:

• IPA^(key): /bɪːs/

From Arabic بَاسَ (bāsa).

bies (imperfect jbus, past participle mibjus, verbal noun bews)

1. to kiss

From Arabic بَاز (bāz).

bies m (plural bisien or bjies or ibies or ibsa)

1. peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)

   Synonym: bies prim

2. Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo)

   Synonyms: bies sekond, falkett

3. flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans)

   Synonyms: falkun, rondinella, garnaw, ħamiema, pixxi seqer

bies

1. alternative form of bias

Inherited from Old Polish bies, from Old Ruthenian бѣсъ (běs),^[1] from Proto-Slavic *bě̑sъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *baiˀsás (“someone frightening”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoyh₂-dʰh₁-so-s, from the root *bʰeyh₂- (“to fear”). Compare Lithuanian bai̇̃sas.

Expected native form *bias is attested in toponym Biasowice.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: bies

bies m animal (augmentative biesisko)

1. devil, demon, evil spirit

   Synonyms: czart, czort, diabeł, kaduk, licho

• bies in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bies in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “bies”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN

bies n (Cyrillic spelling биес)

1. obsolete spelling of bijes

Borrowed from French biais.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjes/ [ˈbjes]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: bies

bies m (plural bieses)

1. (textiles) bias

• “bies”, 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