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bee
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bi?/
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophones: b, be, Bea
Etymology 1
From Middle English bee, from Old English b?o, from Proto-Germanic *bij?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ey-.
Noun
bee (plural bees or (dialectal) been)
- A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
- His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
- An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee.
- Ariell:
- Where the Bee ?ucks, there ?uck I,
- In a Cowslips bell, I lie,
- There I cowch when Owles doe crie,
- On the Batts backe I doe flie
- ? after Sommer merrily.
- Merrily, merrily, ?hall I liue now
- Vnder the blo??om that hangs on the Bow.
- 2012, ‘Subtle poison’, The Economist, 31 March:
- Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
Synonyms
- (flying insect): king of insects
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- apiology, apiculture, beekeeping
- (castes): worker bee, worker, queen bee, queen, drone
- (behavior): beehive,eusocial,hive, swarm, tremble dance, waggle dance
- (anatomy): corbicula, sarothrum, scopa, sting
- (substances): ambrosia, beebread, beeswax, honey, honeycomb, propolis, royal jelly
- apitherapy
- (hives): apiary, beehouse, skep, Langstroth hive,
- (equipment): super, queen-cage, bee escape, duplet, honey extractor, topbar, bee smoker, apidictor
- (diseases): chalkbrood, colony collapse disorder, foulbrood, nosema, sacbrood, stonebrood, varroa
Etymology 2
Possibly from dialectal bene, been, bean (“help given by neighbours”), from Middle English been, bene (“neighbourly help, prayer, petition, request, extra service given by a tenant to his lord”), from Old English b?n (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”) from Proto-Germanic *b?niz (“prayer, request, supplication”). Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Dutch ban (“curse”), German Bann (“ban”). More at ban.
Noun
bee (plural bees)
- A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
- geography bee
- A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
- S. G. Goodrich
- The cellar […] was dug by a bee in a single day.
- 1973, Alan Skeoch, Tony H. Smith, Canadians and their society (page 139)
- There was but little variation in types of buildings in the pioneer period: house, church, store, barn and mill were usually much alike except in size, and a raising bee was the ordinary means of their erection.
- 2011, Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement, 21 Sep 2011:
- Particularly resistant, for example, in many parts of northern Europe was the “spinning bee”, a nocturnal gathering of women to exchange gossip, stories, refreshment and – crucially – light and heat, as they spun wool or flax, knitted or sewed.
- S. G. Goodrich
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bee?, bie, bei, begh, bei?e, bege, beah, bye, from Old English b?ah, b?ag, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz.
Noun
bee (plural bees)
- (obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, page 16:
- ...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees, the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, page 16:
Etymology 4
Variant spellings.
Verb
bee
- Obsolete spelling of be
- 1604 Reverend Cawdrey Table Aleph
- held that a ‘Nicholaitan is an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike.’
- 1604 Reverend Cawdrey Table Aleph
- (obsolete) past participle of be; been
- Cride out, Now now Sir knight, shew what ye bee,
Etymology 5
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English be, from Latin be (the name of the letter B).
Noun
bee (plural bees)
- The name of the Latin-script letter B.
Translations
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Etymology 6
Probably from Old English b?ah (“ring”). Compare bow.
Noun
bee (plural bees)
- (nautical, usually in the plural) Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.
Synonyms
- bee block
References
Anagrams
- EBE
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be?/
Verb
bee
- (transitive) to take
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Aiwoo
Verb
bee
- (intransitive) to grow
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Aukan
Etymology
From English belly.
Noun
bee
- belly, stomach
- uterus, womb
- pregnancy
- lineage, family line
References
- Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)
Dumbea
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?be/
Noun
bee
- fish
References
- Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "?Du?bea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
- Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Estonian
Noun
bee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter B.
Finnish
Etymology
From Latin b?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?be?/, [?be??]
- Rhymes: -e?
- Syllabification: bee
Noun
bee
- bee (The name of the Latin-script letter B.)
Usage notes
- Speakers often use the corresponding forms of b-kirjain ("letter B, letter b") instead of inflecting this word, especially in plural.
Declension
Synonyms
- b-kirjain
Fula
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
Alternative forms
- beni
Particle
bee
- it must, it is necessary that
Dialectal variants
- maal
- doole
- tilay
- say
- sey
See also
- duwaa
References
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Hadza
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be?e/
Pronoun
- bee f pl (masc. bami, masc. plural bii, fem. bôko)
- they (fem. or mixed gender)
Related terms
- habee
- nâbee
- himiggêbee
- beena
Hungarian
Etymology
An onomatopoeia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b??]
- Hyphenation: bee
- Rhymes: -?
Interjection
bee
- baa (sound of a sheep)
See also
- béget
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?be.e/, [?be?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?be.e/, [?b???]
Interjection
bee
- baa (sound of a sheep)
References
- bee in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bee in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Mandinka
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be?/
Noun
bee
- (anatomy) vagina
Manx
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi?/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish bíad (“food”). Cognate with Irish bia and Scottish Gaelic biadh.
Noun
bee m (genitive singular bee, plural beeghyn)
- food
- provisions
- nourishment
- diet
Derived terms
- bee ny jeeghyn (“ambrosia”)
- bee millish (“sweetmeat, sweet”)
- bee moddee (“dog food”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
bee
- inflection of ve:
- future
- second-person singular imperative
Mutation
Middle English
Alternative forms
- be, beo, bey
Etymology
From Old English b?o, from Proto-Germanic *bij?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be?/
- (Early Middle English) IPA(key): /bø?/
Noun
bee (plural been or bees)
- A bee (insect that collects pollen)
Descendants
- English: bee
- Scots: bee, be, beye, bie, bea
- Yola: been (plural)
References
- “b??, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-24.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pè?/
Postposition
bee
- with, by means of, by means of it
Inflection
Old Irish
Verb
bee
- second-person singular present subjunctive absolute of at·tá
San Juan Guelavía Zapotec
Noun
bee
- ant
References
- López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?[3] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 25
Tetum
Alternative forms
- wee (Tetun-Terik)
Etymology
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *wai?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
bee
- water (clear liquid H?O)
Võro
Noun
bee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter B.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English bi, from Old English bi, from Proto-West Germanic *b?. Cognates include English by and Scots by.
Preposition
bee
- by
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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beey
English
Etymology
From bee +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: b??i, IPA(key): /?bi?i/
Adjective
beey (comparative more beey, superlative most beey)
- (informal, rare) Reminiscent of or containing bees.
- 1871, P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica” in The Rural Carolinian II, page 252
- It was the sweetest April-time, / And beey-swarms humm’d thro’ the trees, / And Nature’s voice, in silver rhyme, / Received fresh cadence from the bees.
- 1887, Ptolemy Houghton, Hatred Is Akin to Love, page 35
- Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey, bed.
- 1905, The Bee-Keepers’ Review XVIII, page 58
- [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey” flavor that is simply delicious.
- 2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys, page 190
- The buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey than it had before.
- 1871, P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica” in The Rural Carolinian II, page 252
Translations
Kankanaey
Noun
beey
- house
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