bé

From Latin bene.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbe]

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• Rhymes: -e

bé

1. well

The form ben is used when it precedes the adjective, adverb or verb form that it modifies, and bé is used in all other cases.

bé m (plural béns)

1. good

• bo, bon

• “bé” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bé”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “bé” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bé” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛː]

bé

1. baa (the cry of a sheep)

• bečet

bé n

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

• béčko

• (Latin-script letter names) písmeno; á, bé, cé, dé, é, ef, gé, há, chá, í, jé, ká, el, em, en, ó, pé, kvé, er, es, té, ú, vé, dvojité vé, iks, ypsilon, zet

• IPA^(key): /be/

bé m (plural bés)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeː]

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• Hyphenation: bé
• Rhymes: -beː

bé

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
2. (music) bemol, the sign ♭

   Coordinate terms: kereszt, kettős kereszt, kettős bé, feloldójel

   Hypernym: módosítójel

bé

1. (poetic or dialectal) Alternative form of be (“in”)

• (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

• (letter name): (1): b in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (adverb): bé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /pjɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː

bé n (genitive singular bés, nominative plural bé)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

From Old Irish bé, from Proto-Celtic *ben, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).

• IPA^(key): /bʲeː/

bé f (genitive singular bé, nominative plural béithe)

1. (literary) woman, maiden
   1. beautiful woman
2. muse (inspiration for artist)

• bean (“woman”)

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bé”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bé”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /bʲeː/

From Proto-Celtic *ben, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).

bé f

1. (poetic) woman

   Synonyms: banscál, ben, frac

• bé carna (“harlot”)

• Irish: bé

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• ·bǽ, ·bée

·bé

1. second/third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of at·tá

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• béé, bééé, béééé, etc.

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1. (onomatopoeia) baa (cry of sheep)

From Latin bibō, bibere.

bé

1. to drink

bé

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

From Old Chinese 庳 (*N-peʔ) (B-S) (SV: ti, tì).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛ˦˥]

bé • (𡮣, 𡭬, 𡮤)

1. small; little; tiny

   Synonym: nhỏ

2. little; very young

   hồi bé ― when I/he/she/we was/were little

bé

1. Short for em bé (“baby”).

bé

1. you, little child
2. (informal) you, young person
3. (informal) you, young girl

• trẻ