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bes

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bes"

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English bes.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

bes

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) third-person singular simple present indicative form 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.
Usage notesEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  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.

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Latin bes.

NounEdit

 
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bes (plural besses)

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

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

bes

  1. plural of be (Cyrillic letter)

AnagramsEdit

AromanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Probably from a Vulgar Latin vissiō (attested in glosses). Compare Romanian băși, băs.

VerbEdit

bes (past participle bishitã)

  1. I fart.

SynonymsEdit

Related termsEdit

BalineseEdit

ConjunctionEdit

bes

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

CatalanEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

bes

  1. plural of be

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

bes m (plural besos)

  1. kiss
    Synonyms: petó, besada
Related termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

Inherited from Latin versus. Doublet of vers.

NounEdit

bes m (plural bessos)

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

Further readingEdit

ChipewyanEdit

NounEdit

bes

  1. knife

CornishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [beːz]

NounEdit

bes m (plural besow)

  1. (Revived Late Cornish) world

MutationEdit

  Mutation of bes  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
bes ves unchanged pes fes ves

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /bɛs/
  • audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: bes
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

  1. berry
    Synonyms: bei, bees, bezie
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • → Papiamentu: bèshi (from the diminutive)
  • → Jersey Dutch: bääśe (from the diminutive)

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

  1. (music) B flat

Etymology 3Edit

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

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

  1. (chiefly diminutive) an old woman

KashubianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъzъ.

NounEdit

bes m inan

  1. elder (Sambucus)

Further readingEdit

  • “bes”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “bez”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bes m (genitive bessis); third declension

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

DeclensionEdit

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bes bessēs
Genitive bessis bessium
Dative bessī bessibus
Accusative bessem bessēs
bessīs
Ablative besse bessibus
Vocative bes bessēs

ReferencesEdit

  • bes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

MalayEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From English base.

NounEdit

bes (Jawi spelling بيس‎, plural bes-bes, informal 1st possessive besku, 2nd possessive besmu, 3rd possessive besnya)

  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.

Alternative formsEdit

Further readingEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

VerbEdit

bes

  1. Alternative form of bith

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

bes

  1. passive form of be

Old IrishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

bes

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive relative of is

MutationEdit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bes bes
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ 		mbes
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

PapiamentuEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Portuguese vez and Spanish vez and Kabuverdianu vés.

NounEdit

bes

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

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bȇs m (Cyrillic spelling бе̑с)

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bes
singular plural
nominative bȇs bȅsovi
genitive besa besova
dative besu besovima
accusative bes besove
vocative bese besovi
locative besu besovima
instrumental besom besovima

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bes m (plural beses)

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

NounEdit

bes f pl

  1. plural of be

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

VerbEdit

bes

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

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Clipping from English best friend.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bes

  1. (slang, colloquial) term of address for one's friend, especially a close one: friend; best friend

Usage notesEdit

The term is typically used by women, and may sound effeminate when used by men.

Related termsEdit

Western YugurEdit

Western Yugur cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : bes

NumeralEdit

bes

  1. five
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