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Clipping of English Besme.

bes

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Besme.

Middle English bes

English bes

Inherited from Middle English bes.

bes

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) third-person singular simple present indicative of be
    • 1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it:
      She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.
    • 1916, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 44, page 353:
      "An' he bes free times as old as herself," he wailed, " an' ugly as a squid ! But he bes rich — rich as any marchant — an' for the bread an' the fixin's an' the gold she bes takin' 'im."
    • 2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236:
      And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.
  2. (dialectal, nonstandard) Present tense inflected form of be: am or are.
    • 1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it:
      She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.
    • 2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236:
      And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.

Into the Early Modern English period, be was still sometimes inflected like regular verbs in the ordinary present indicative (i.e. "they be", in addition to "they are"), although "he bes" was uncommon (compare "he beeth").[1] Today, such inflected forms are limited to the alternate, dynamic / lexical conjugation of be described in its Usage notes.

  1. ^ Henry Sweet, A Primer of Historical English Grammar (1893), page 88: The use of be in the pres. indic. is still kept up in Early MnE: I be, thou beest, they be, etc.; the form he bes is, however, very rare.

Borrowed from Latin bes.

bes (plural besses)

  1. (historical, numismatics) A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.

bes

  1. plural of be (“Cyrillic letter”)

bes

  1. Alternative form of beth (“Semitic letter”).

bes

  1. Verbal stem occurring in the following root, aspect, and mode combinations:
Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
Repetitive bets (broad) bets (broad) bets (broad) bets (broad)
Semelfactive bets (broad) bets (broad) bets (broad) bets (broad)
Perambulative bets (broad) bets (broad)
cus bets (broad) bets (broad) bets (broad) bets (broad)

Inherited from Latin vissiō. Compare Romanian băși.

bes (participle bishitã)

  1. to fart

bes (Balinese script ᬩᭂᬲ᭄)

  1. too (as in too hard, too much etc.)
    bes joh ― too far (away).

From Middle High German bœse, bōse, from Old High German bōsi, from Proto-West Germanic *bausī, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, puffed up, arrogant, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bew- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cogate with German böse.

bes

  1. evil, malicious, wicked
  2. bad, naughty

bes

  1. plural of be (“the letter B”)

Inherited from Latin basium, from Proto-Indo-European *bu. Compare Occitan bais, Spanish beso, Italian bacio.

bes m (plural besos)

  1. kiss
    Synonyms: petó, besada

Inherited from Latin versus. Doublet of vers.

bes m (plural bessos)

  1. (nautical) strip of cloth used as part of a sail or a flag

From Proto-Athabaskan *weˑš

bes

  1. knife

From Proto-Brythonic *bɨd, from Proto-Celtic *bitus.

bes m (plural besow)

  1. (Revived Late Cornish) world

From Middle Dutch bes, bese, from Old Dutch besi, from Proto-West Germanic *basi, from Proto-Germanic *basją. Compare English berry, Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n or (dialectal) bessie n)

  1. berry
    Synonyms: (dated or regional) bei, (dated or regional) bees, (dated or regional) bezie

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

  1. (music) B-flat

Backformation from besje, from older bestje, from bestemoer or bestemoeder (“grandma, old woman”).

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

  1. (chiefly diminutive) an old woman
    • a. 1525, anonymous author, “Lied van de twee koningskinderen”, in Haerlems Oudt Liedt-boeck, 27th edition, published 1716:
      Met een quam daer een besje,
      Een oude fenynde bes,
      But then there came an old woman,
      An old mean hag,

bes

  1. superlative degree of gud: best

bës

  1. act of looking the clothes of a dead person

Dialectal synonyms & variants of bes

Southern / Central
Mt. Province Tadian bes,(Lubon) beh,(Banaao, Cadad-anan, Cagubatan, Dacudac, Lenga, Pandayan) boh
Bauko bes,(Banao, Bila, Otucan) beh
Sabangan bes,(Tambingan, Supang, Data, Lagan, Losad, Poblacion) bes,(Bun-ayan, Pingad, Bao-angan, Camatagan, Napua, Gayang, Capinitan, Busa, Namatec) beh
Northern / Applai
Mt. Province Sagada bes,(Tanulong) ghes

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъzъ.

bes m inan

  1. elder (Sambucus)

From a derivative of *duō (“two”) (compare bis) + as.

(Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (particularly: Gaffiot, Félix (1934) say it is bēs with long vowel.)

bes m (genitive bessis); third declension

  1. two-thirds, or a two-thirds part of any unit
  2. bes, a coin worth two-thirds of an as

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

bès

  1. third-person singular/plural future of besti

From English base.

bes (Jawi spelling بيس, plural **bes-bes or **bes2)

  1. (chemistry) base, any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.

bes

  1. plural of be (“bee”)

A version of bith with the third-person singular ending replaced with -es as in other verbs (in some dialects) and the vowel of the infinitive been leveled in.

bes

  1. alternative form of bith

bes

  1. passive form of be

bes

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive relative of is

Mutation of bes

radical lenition nasalization
bes bespronounced with /βʲ-/ mbes

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From Portuguese vez and Spanish vez and Kabuverdianu vés.

bes

  1. times as in "three times is too much"
  2. occasion, instance

bes m inan

  1. (Kuyavia, Southern Greater Poland, Miejska Górka, Far Masovian, Ciechanów, Łowicz, Western Kraków, Kraków, Bochnia, Wadowice, Żywiec) alternative form of bez

The genitive singular in the Kuyavia dialect, Southern Greater Poland dialect, Far Masovian dialect Łowicz dialect, and Western Kraków dialect is besu.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běsъ (“evil spirit”).

bȇs m inan (Cyrillic spelling бе̑с) (Ekavian)

  1. rage
  2. fury
  3. madness
  4. mania
  5. tantrum
  6. wildness
  7. ferocity
  8. rampage

bes m (plural beses)

  1. bes (two-thirds of an as (Roman measurement), around 219.3 grams)

bes f pl

  1. plural of be

bes

  1. passive infinitive of be
  2. present passive of be

Clipping from English best friend.

bes (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜐ᜔) (colloquial, women's speech, gay slang)

  1. endearing term of address for one's friend, especially a close friend or bestfriend: friend; best friend

Borrowed from Spanish vez, from Latin vicis (“change, alternation”). Doublet of beses.

bes (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜐ᜔) (dialectal, Cavite)

  1. time; instance; repetition
    Synonyms: ulit, beses

Western Yugur cardinal numbers

< 4 5 6 >
Cardinal : bes Ordinal : besənc̨ə
Cyrillic бес

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄ĺ.

bes

  1. five