béas

See also: beas, Beas, and beás

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: béa, béât

Verb

béas

1. second-person singular past historic of béer

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /bʲiːa̯sˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲeːsˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bés, from Proto-Celtic *banssus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-.

Noun

béas m (genitive singular béasa, nominative plural béasa)

1. habit, wont
2. moral habit
3. (in the plural) conduct, manners

Declension

Declension of béas (third declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative béas béasa vocative a bhéas a bhéasa genitive béasa béas dative béas béasa forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an béas na béasa genitive an bhéasa na mbéas dative leis an mbéas don bhéas leis na béasa

Synonyms

• (manners): béascna

Derived terms

• ainbhéas
• béasach (“well-mannered, lady-like, girl; well-behaved, polite”)
• béasaíocht
• béascna
• dea-bhéas (“good habit; (in plural) good conduct, good manners”)
• drochbhéas (“bad habit; immoral habit, vice”)

Etymology 2

Noun

béas m (genitive singular béasa, nominative plural béasa)

1. customary tax
2. dues, cess

Declension

Declension of béas (third declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative béas béasa vocative a bhéas a bhéasa genitive béasa béas dative béas béasa forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an béas na béasa genitive an bhéasa na mbéas dative leis an mbéas don bhéas leis na béasa

Etymology 3

Noun

béas m (genitive singular béasa, nominative plural béasa)

1. beige

Declension

Declension of béas (third declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative béas béasa vocative a bhéas a bhéasa genitive béasa béas dative béas béasa forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an béas na béasa genitive an bhéasa na mbéas dative leis an mbéas don bhéas leis na béasa

Mutation

Mutated forms of béas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
béas	bhéas	mbéas

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

Sundanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas. Cognate with Javanese ꦧꦼꦫꦱ꧀ (beras), Indonesian beras, Tagalog bigas.

Noun

béas (Sundanese script ᮘᮦᮃᮞ᮪)

1. husked uncooked rice

Derived terms

• béas atah
• cibéas
• dibejer-béaskeun
• moal mundur satunjung béas
• pabéasan
• sahérang-hérangna cibéas

See also

• paré (“rice plant”)
• bangsal (“unhusked rice”)
• kéjo/sangu (“cooked rice”)
• sawah (“rice paddy”)

Further reading

• "BEJAS", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij
• Maman Sumantri, Atjep Djamaludin, Achmad Patoni, R.H. Moch. Koerdie, M.O. Koesman, Epa Sjafei Adisastra. (1985) Kamus Sunda-Indonesia [Sundanese-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia