bey
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish بك (bey, “gentleman, chief”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbey (plural beys)
- (historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 512:
- She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess.
- 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 15:
- Whether his position with the Third Circle made the difference or the fact that he ranked as a bey, life in El Iskandryia was proving easier than he'd ever dreamed possible when he stepped off the plane.
- in various other places, a prince or nobleman
Derived terms
editTranslations
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References
edit- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bey”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbey m (plural beys)
Further reading
edit- “bey”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
editPreposition
editbey [with dative]
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbey m (invariable)
Middle English
editNoun
editbey
- Alternative form of bee
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”).
Noun
editbey m (plural beyes)
Further reading
edit- “bey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Talysh
editVerb
editbey
- to be
- Ha manqədə az se rüj danq bedəm.
- Every month I go crazy for three days.
- (literally, “become crazy”)
- Dı mı ğum bedəş ya ne?
- Will you become my relative or not?
- Ço damə bedəniş?
- Why aren't you talking?
Conjugation
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Infinitive | Present stem | Past participle | ||||||||||||||||||||||
be(y) | bi-/bı- | bə | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indicative present | Simple imperfect | Simple past imperfective (was) |
Present optative | Imperative | Simple past perfective (became) | Future | Imperfect II composite | Plusquamperfect | preterite conditional | |||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | singular | plural | singular | ||||||
1 | bedəm | bedəmon | əbim | əbimon | bim | bimon | bıbom | bıbomon | bəm | bəmon | bəbem | bəbemon | bedə bim | bedə bimon | bə bim | bə bimon | bə bəim | |||||||
2 | bedəş | bedəşon | əbiş | əbion | biş | bion | bıboş | bıboon | bıbi! | bıbən! | bəş | bəon | bəbeş | bəbeyon | bedə biş | bedə bion | bə biş | bə bion | bə bəiş | |||||
3 | bedə | bedən | əbi | əbin | be | bin | bıbo | bıbon | bə | bən | bəbe | bəben | bedə be | bedə bin | bə be | bə bin | bə bəi |
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish بك (bey), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.
Unrelated to Turkish bay (“gentleman”) (from Ottoman Turkish باي (bày, “a rich or great man”)).
Noun
editbey (definite accusative beyi, plural beyler)
Declension
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Locative | beyde | beylerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms
editRelated terms
editWolof
editVerb
editbey
- to farm
Derived terms
edit- English terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- English terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- English terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish
- English terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 2-syllable words
- Rhymes:English/eɪ
- Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- English terms with quotations
- French terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- French terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- French terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish
- French terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- German lemmas
- German prepositions
- German obsolete forms
- Italian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Italian unadapted borrowings from Ottoman Turkish
- Italian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Italian terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- Italian 1-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛj
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛj/1 syllable
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian terms spelled with Y
- Italian masculine nouns
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Spanish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Talysh lemmas
- Talysh verbs
- Talysh terms with usage examples
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish
- Turkish terms inherited from Proto-Turkic
- Turkish terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- Wolof lemmas
- Wolof verbs