beha

Letter-pronunciation of bh, abbreviation of bustehouder.

• IPA^(key): /beːˈɦaː/

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• Hyphenation: be‧ha
• Rhymes: -aː

beha m (plural beha's, diminutive behaatje n)

1. a bra

• bh
• bustehouder

• → Aukan: beiha
• → Indonesian: beha

Borrowed from Dutch beha.

• IPA^(key): /be.ha/

beha (first-person possessive behaku, second-person possessive behamu, third-person possessive behanya)

1. (colloquial) bra

   Synonym: kutang

• “beha” 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.

From Proto-Oceanic *bʷeka.

• IPA^(key): /beɣa/

beha

1. flying fox

• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
• Ross, Malcolm D. (2011) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 4, Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)