See also: Bez, beż, běž, bež, bez-, and bez.

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

bez (plural bezes)

  1. The second tine of an antler's beam.
TranslationsEdit

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Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

bez

  1. (nonstandard, dialectal) first-person plural simple present of be
    Synonym: (standard) are
    • 2007 October 20, NiggydaHoe, “Re: 79yr old Nigger Idiot was suspended for racist bullshit”, in alt.music.white-power[1] (Usenet):
      We bez run to 'da good bad white man. He gonna fire 'da ova bad white man.
      If 'da bad white man cain't sayz be[sic] niggas bez stupid in 'da heaad, wif' low
      iq an' shit, 'dat mus' mean we bez humans.
  2. (nonstandard, dialectal) third-person plural simple present of be
    Synonym: (standard) are
    • 1860, The Knickerbacker[2], volume 56, Peabody, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 434:
      'They bez goin' like der Tyfel,'
    • 2007 June 13, Mustapha Mond, “Re: Nigger Apologists: Slaves Who Died at Sea Being Honored”, in comp.sys.mac.apps[3] (Usenet):
      >>>>>>> " [] They are not rotting someplace in hell, they bez right
      >>>>>>> here
      >>>>>>> whining wif us."

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AnagramsEdit

AragoneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

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NounEdit

bez f (plural bezes)

  1. a time
  2. occasion

ReferencesEdit

BasqueEdit

NounEdit

bez

  1. instrumental indefinite of be

CzechEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɛs]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Old Czech bez, from Proto-Slavic *bъzъ, *bъza, *bъzina, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

NounEdit

bez m inan

  1. elderberry (shrub or tree)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
adjective
nouns

Etymology 2Edit

Inherited from Old Czech bez, from Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰs.

PrepositionEdit

bez [+genitive]

  1. without
    Antonym: s

Further readingEdit

  • bez in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • bez in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • bez in Internetová jazyková příručka

LatgalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *beź. Cognates include Latvian bez and Lithuanian be.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈbʲɛs]
  • Hyphenation: bez

PrepositionEdit

bez (+ genitive)

  1. without
  2. (when telling time) to
    Bez desmit deveni.Ten to nine (8:50).

ReferencesEdit

  • Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 71

LatvianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *beź. Cognates include Latgalian bez and Lithuanian be.

PrepositionEdit

bez (with genitive)

  1. without
  2. in addition to
  3. apart from

Derived termsEdit

PolishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): (isolated) /bɛs/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛs
  • Syllabification: bez

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Old Polish bez, from Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *beź, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰs.

PrepositionEdit

bez

  1. without, lacking [+genitive]
    Antonym: z
    Proszę o kawę bez mleka.A coffee with no milk, please.
Alternative formsEdit
Derived termsEdit
prefix

Etymology 2Edit

Inherited from Old Polish bez, from Proto-Slavic *bъzъ, *bъza, *bъzina, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

NounEdit

bez m inan

  1. elder (bush of genus Sambucus)
  2. lilac (bush of genus Syringa)
    Synonym: lilak
    pachnieć bzemto smell of lilac
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
nouns

Etymology 3Edit

From bez, due to confusion with the rhyming preposition przez. The two words were and are used interchangeably in various dialects, and in Old Polish przez was about to replace bez around the 14th-15th century. In the written language the earlier distinction ultimately prevailed, however.[1]

PrepositionEdit

bez

  1. (Poznań, Upper Silesia) because of [+accusative]
    Synonym: z powodu
  2. (dialectal) across, through [+accusative]
    Synonym: przez
    • 2000, Aneta Majkowska, Polszczyzna mówiona mieszkańców Częstochowy, page 185:
      Nie tu szosą tylko drogą polną bez pola my jechali z chłopem sąsiadki.
      We drove through the fields with the neighbor's man, not on the paved road, but on a dirt road.

Etymology 4Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

NounEdit

bez

  1. genitive plural of beza

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “bez”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 21

Further readingEdit

  • bez in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bez in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic без (bez), from Proto-Slavic *bez.

AdverbEdit

bez

  1. (dated) without

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Slavic *bez. Compare bez- and bes-.

Alternative formsEdit

PrepositionEdit

bèz (Cyrillic spelling бѐз) (+ genitive case)

  1. without, excluding, not counting
    bez sumnjewithout a doubt
    ostati bez nečegato lose something, to run out of something, (literally: to stay without something)
    bez obzira na..regardless of.., no matter what..is
    bez kraja i koncaendlessly, without end
    ne bez razloganot without a reason
    bez srcaheartlessly, without a heart
    bez r(ij)ečiwithout a word, speechless
    biti bez nečegato be lacking in, to be deficient in, to lack (literally: to be without something)
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بز(bez), from Arabic بَزّ(bazz). Akin to bezistan, bezli, besofra and bespara.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bȅz m (Cyrillic spelling бе̏з)

  1. linen, canvas
  2. (specifically) a type of cotton-made linen or canvas used in Oriental costumes, of several possible forms: ćereće, sedeluk, kafez or kafez-bez, melez, harir, šejtanbez and harirbez.
DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • bez” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • bez” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 140

SlovakEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰs.

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

bez (+ genitive)

  1. without
    Antonyms: s, so

Further readingEdit

  • bez in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

TatarEdit

NounEdit

bez

  1. awl

TurkishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Ottoman Turkish بز(bez); see there for more. The ultimate origin is Arabic بَزّ(bazz), however, an influence from Byzantine Greek βύσσος (bússos) has been postulated in order to explain the mismatch in the vowels.[1]

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbez/
  • Hyphenation: bez

NounEdit

bez (definite accusative bezi, plural bezler)

  1. cloth
DeclensionEdit
Inflection
Nominative bez
Definite accusative bezi
Singular Plural
Nominative bez bezler
Definite accusative bezi bezleri
Dative beze bezlere
Locative bezde bezlerde
Ablative bezden bezlerden
Genitive bezin bezlerin

Etymology 2Edit

From Ottoman Turkish بز(bez), from Proto-Turkic *beŕ.

Cognate with Kazakh без (bez, gland), Karachay-Balkar без (bez, gland), Southern Altai бес (bes, gland), Uzbek bez (gland), Uyghur بەز(bez, gland), Turkmen mäz (gland), Bashkir биҙ (bið, gland), Tuvan бес (bes, gland), Chuvash пар (par, gland).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbez/
  • Hyphenation: bez

NounEdit

bez (definite accusative bezi, plural bezler)

  1. (anatomy) gland
DeclensionEdit
Inflection
Nominative bez
Definite accusative bezi
Singular Plural
Nominative bez bezler
Definite accusative bezi bezleri
Dative beze bezlere
Locative bezde bezlerde
Ablative bezden bezlerden
Genitive bezin bezlerin

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander (2018), “Fabrication of Turkic böz 'fabric' in Japan and Korea”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 71, issue 3, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, pages 263–284.