EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Syncopic form of babe or baby. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word (poop). Sometimes claimed to derive from “before anyone else”, a possible backronym.

NounEdit

bae (plural baes)

  1. (slang) Darling (term of endearment).
    • 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:
      And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You[sic] better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.
    • 2014, Laken Howard, "Pillow Talk: Let's talk about V-day", The Current (entertainment insert of The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University), 13 February 2014, page 3:
      Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”
    • 2014, "How Steamy Is Your PDA?", Seventeen, June/July 2014, page 98:
      A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bae.
    Synonyms: babe, baby, darling, dear, love, sweetheart, loved one, significant other, special someone
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Korean (bae).

NounEdit

bae (plural baes)

  1. Asian pear.

Etymology 3Edit

From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.

VerbEdit

bae (third-person singular simple present baes, present participle baeing, simple past and past participle baed)

  1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.

AnagramsEdit

BislamaEdit

ParticleEdit

bae

  1. Alternative form of bambae

MarshalleseEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [pˠɑːɛ], (enunciated) [pˠɑ ɛ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /pˠæɰjɛj/
  • Bender phonemes: {bahyey}

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

bae

  1. (Ratak) bamboo
SynonymsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English pie, from Middle English pye, pie, probably from Latin pīca (magpie, jay) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests).

NounEdit

bae

  1. a pie

ReferencesEdit

PijinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English by and by.

ParticleEdit

bae

  1. Future tense marker

WelshEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English bay, from French baie.

NounEdit

bae m (plural baeau)

  1. bay

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form..

VerbEdit

bae

  1. Alternative form of bai

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bae fae mae unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bae”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

ZhuangEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Tai *pajᴬ (to go). Cognate with Thai ไป (bpai), Northern Thai ᨻᩱ (pai), Khün ᨻᩱ (pai), Lao ໄປ (pai), ᦺᦔ (ṗay) and ᦺᦗ (pay), Tai Dam ꪼꪜ, Shan ပႆ (pǎi), Aiton ပႝ (pay), Bouyei bail.

VerbEdit

bae (Sawndip forms 𭆛 or or or or or 𫨰, 1957–1982 spelling bəi)

  1. to go
  2. to walk
  3. to operate; to run
  4. to spend; to use
  5. to remove; to get rid of
  6. to be lost (from one's possession)
  7. (of a liquid) to lose; to leak (gas)
  8. (of a firearm) to go off accidentally; to discharge accidentally
  9. to deviate
  10. (euphemistic) to pass away
Derived termsEdit

ParticleEdit

bae (Sawndip forms 𭆛 or or or or or 𫨰, 1957–1982 spelling bəi)

  1. Used after a verb to indicate removal of an object.

Etymology 2Edit

From Chinese (MC pʰei).

VerbEdit

bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)

  1. to criticize
  2. to judge; to critique
  3. to comment on; to correct
  4. to approve

Etymology 3Edit

Compare Cantonese (pai1, “to plaster”).

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VerbEdit

bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)

  1. to plaster; to coat