bebe

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Casiguran Dumagat Agta

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Noun

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bebe

  1. woman

References

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  • A Dumagat (Casiguran) - English Dictionary, Pacific Linguistics: Series C, No. 28 (as bébe)
  • ABVD (as bɨ'beq)
  • Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (as bə-be)

Fijian

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Noun

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bebe

  1. butterfly

Galician

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Verb

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bebe

  1. inflection of beber:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

German

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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bebe

  1. inflection of beben:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French bébé (baby).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bebe

  1. baby

Interlingua

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Noun

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bebe

  1. baby

Synonyms

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Kapampangan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From earlier bebai, from Proto-Philippine *baybay. Compare Tagalog baybay.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbebe/ [ˈbɛː.bɛː]
  • Hyphenation: be‧be

Noun

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bébé

  1. seashore
  2. riverbank
  3. mountainside

Derived terms

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Makasar

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bebe (Lontara spelling ᨅᨙᨅᨙ)

  1. saliva

Derived terms

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Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese beber and Spanish beber and Kabuverdianu bebi.

Verb

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bebe

  1. to drink

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bebe

  1. inflection of beber:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French bébé and also influenced by English baby.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bebe m (uncountable)

  1. baby, infant
    Synonyms: bebeluș, copilaș

Declension

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Variant of bebé.

Noun

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bebe m (plural bebes, feminine beba, feminine plural bebas)

  1. (Peru) baby
    Synonyms: bebé, wawa

Etymology 2

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Verb

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bebe

  1. inflection of beber:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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Probably from Fon gbɛ̀gbɛ́-tín (Pterocarpus tree).[1]

Noun

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bebe

  1. any tree of the genus Pterocarpus

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Norval Smith (2009) “A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 468.

Tagalog

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bebe (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ) (colloquial)

  1. Alternative form of beybi

Derived terms

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Ternate

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bebe

Etymology

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From Indonesian bebek.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bebe

  1. a duck

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tiruray

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Noun

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bebe

  1. grandchild

Turkish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /be.bɛ/, [be̞ˈbɛ]

Noun

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bebe (definite accusative bebeyi, plural bebeler)

  1. (dialectal) child, kid, baby
  2. (dialectal, derogatory) Brat

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative bebe
Definite accusative bebeyi
Singular Plural
Nominative bebe bebeler
Definite accusative bebeyi bebeleri
Dative bebeye bebelere
Locative bebede bebelerde
Ablative bebeden bebelerden
Genitive bebenin bebelerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular bebem bebelerim
2nd singular beben bebelerin
3rd singular bebesi bebeleri
1st plural bebemiz bebelerimiz
2nd plural bebeniz bebeleriniz
3rd plural bebeleri bebeleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular bebemi bebelerimi
2nd singular bebeni bebelerini
3rd singular bebesini bebelerini
1st plural bebemizi bebelerimizi
2nd plural bebenizi bebelerinizi
3rd plural bebelerini bebelerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular bebeme bebelerime
2nd singular bebene bebelerine
3rd singular bebesine bebelerine
1st plural bebemize bebelerimize
2nd plural bebenize bebelerinize
3rd plural bebelerine bebelerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular bebemde bebelerimde
2nd singular bebende bebelerinde
3rd singular bebesinde bebelerinde
1st plural bebemizde bebelerimizde
2nd plural bebenizde bebelerinizde
3rd plural bebelerinde bebelerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular bebemden bebelerimden
2nd singular bebenden bebelerinden
3rd singular bebesinden bebelerinden
1st plural bebemizden bebelerimizden
2nd plural bebenizden bebelerinizden
3rd plural bebelerinden bebelerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular bebemin bebelerimin
2nd singular bebenin bebelerinin
3rd singular bebesinin bebelerinin
1st plural bebemizin bebelerimizin
2nd plural bebenizin bebelerinizin
3rd plural bebelerinin bebelerinin

West Makian

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Etymology

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Reduplication of be (water).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bebe

  1. (transitive, informal) to drink
    Synonym: joube (polite)

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bebe (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tebebe mebebe abebe
2nd person nebebe febebe
3rd person inanimate ibebe debebe
animate
imperative nebebe, bebe febebe, bebe

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics (as bebé)