bea

bea

1. cloud

bea

1. absolutive singular of be

bea

1. water
2. juice
3. liquid

• W. Ivens, Bugotu-English/English-Bugotu Concise Dictionary (1998)

Inherited from Malay bea, from Javanese ꦧꦺꦪ (béya), from Old Javanese beya, from Sanskrit व्यय (vyaya). Doublet of biaya.

• Displaced Dutch recht (“a formal fee, custom, duty to be paid”) by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbea̯/
• Hyphenation: béa
• Rhymes: -bea̯, -ea̯, -a

béa (plural bea-bea, first-person possessive beaku, second-person possessive beamu, third-person possessive beanya)

1. tax, custom duty.

   Synonyms: cukai, pajak

   1. (law, government) customs: the duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.
2. expense

   Synonyms: biaya, ongkos

• bia
• beja (1942-1945)

• (customs): kastam (Standard Malay)

• → Min Nan: 傌仔／骂仔 (bé-á)^[1]

• “bea” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
• Bunbunan E. J. Hutampea, Soemarso S. R., Jan Hoesada, Indriani Eko Yulianto, Meity Taqdir Qodratillah, T. B. Gultom (1993) Kamus Keuangan [Dictionary of Finance] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, page 6: “bea”

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: bè‧a

bea

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

beā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of beō

• bea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

bea

1. Taxes, toll, dues.

• Indonesian: bea
• → Min Nan: 傌仔／骂仔 (bé-á)^[1]

From Middle Irish betha, from Old Irish bethu (“life, existence”), from Proto-Celtic *biwotūts, from *biwos from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeih₃w- (“to live”).

• IPA^(key): /beː/

bea f (genitive singular bea, no plural)

1. life

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bea	vea	mea
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

Cognate with Naxi bbei.

• IPA^(key): /pe/

bea

1. snow

Inherited from Latin bibere, present active infinitive of bibō, from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti.

• IPA^(key): /be̯a/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: bea

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a bea (third-person singular present bea, past participle băut) 2nd conj.

1. to drink

• băutor m, băutoare f
• bere

• băutură
• beat
• bețiv
• zbea

• mânca
• sorbi

Clipping of bearnaisesås, itself from French béarnaise + sås.

• IPA^(key): /²beːa/

bea c

1. (cooking, slang) Synonym of bearnaisesås (“béarnaise sauce”)

   en pizza med bea

   a pizza with béarnaise

2. (cooking) Synonym of falsk bearnaisesås (“faux béarnaise sauce”)

The term bea can sometimes be used on a menu for a simplified sauce that in consistency and flavour is very similar to béarnaise sauce; a falsk bearnaisesås (“faux béarnaise sauce”).

• Slangopedia

bea

1. water

• transnewguinea.org, citing G. Reesink Languages of the Aramia River Area (1976), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19, and S. A. Wurm, The Kiwaian Language Family (1973), pages 217-224, in The Linguistic Situation in the Gulf District and Adjacent Area, Papua New Guinea (K. J. Franklin, editor)

From Old French biau, from Latin bellus.

• IPA^(key): /bja/, /bɛː/

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bea (feminine bele)

1. beautiful; handsome; attractive; pretty