bê

See also: Appendix:Variations of "be"

Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian بی‎ (bi).

Preposition

bê

  1. without

Portuguese

bê

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /be/
  • Rhymes: -e

Noun

bê m (plural bês)

  1. bee (name of the letter B, b)

Derived terms

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Onomatopoetic.

Noun

(classifier con) bê (𠶎)

  1. calf; baby bull/cow

Interjection

bê (𠶎)

  1. (onomatopoeia) The cry of a calf

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bé

Noun

bê

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
  2. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.
Usage notes

The phoneme /p/ does not exist as an onset consonant in Vietnamese native phonology, and every word containing it is a loanword. Most Vietnamese people, especially those from the Southern proportion of the country, find difficulty in differentiating it from /ɓ/, as they cannot articulate the phoneme /p/; there are some ways to tell the two apart, or to tell the letters b and p apart, including using expressions like "bê bò" ("'b' as in 'bò'") or "bê phở" ("'p' as in 'phở'")

Synonyms
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