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): [ˈbɛbɛ]

bebe (Lontara spelling ᨅᨙᨅᨙ)

1. saliva

• a'bebe

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 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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

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

Inflection
Nominative	bebe
Definite accusative	bebeyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bebe	bebeler
Definite accusative	bebeyi	bebeleri
Dative	bebeye	bebelere
Locative	bebede	bebelerde
Ablative	bebeden	bebelerden
Genitive	bebenin	bebelerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular bebem bebelerim 2nd singular beben bebelerin 3rd singular bebesi bebeleri 1st plural bebemiz bebelerimiz 2nd plural bebeniz bebeleriniz 3rd plural bebeleri bebeleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular bebemi bebelerimi 2nd singular bebeni bebelerini 3rd singular bebesini bebelerini 1st plural bebemizi bebelerimizi 2nd plural bebenizi bebelerinizi 3rd plural bebelerini bebelerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular bebeme bebelerime 2nd singular bebene bebelerine 3rd singular bebesine bebelerine 1st plural bebemize bebelerimize 2nd plural bebenize bebelerinize 3rd plural bebelerine bebelerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular bebemde bebelerimde 2nd singular bebende bebelerinde 3rd singular bebesinde bebelerinde 1st plural bebemizde bebelerimizde 2nd plural bebenizde bebelerinizde 3rd plural bebelerinde bebelerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular bebemden bebelerimden 2nd singular bebenden bebelerinden 3rd singular bebesinden bebelerinden 1st plural bebemizden bebelerimizden 2nd plural bebenizden bebelerinizden 3rd plural bebelerinden bebelerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular bebemin bebelerimin 2nd singular bebenin bebelerinin 3rd singular bebesinin bebelerinin 1st plural bebemizin bebelerimizin 2nd plural bebenizin bebelerinizin 3rd plural bebelerinin bebelerinin

Reduplication of be (“water”).

• IPA^(key): /be.ˈbe/

bebe

1. (transitive, informal) to drink

   Synonym: joube (polite)

Conjugation of bebe (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tebebe	mebebe	abebe
2nd person		nebebe	febebe
3rd person	inanimate	ibebe	debebe
	animate
imperative		nebebe, bebe	febebe, bebe

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as bebé)