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English

Alternative forms

• bekah

Etymology

From Hebrew ??????? (beqá?, “half-sheqel”, literally “broken”).

Noun

beka (plural bekas)

1. an ancient Biblical unit of weight, half a shekel

Anagrams

• Baek, bake, beak

Czech

Alternative forms

• backa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?ka/
• Rhymes: -?ka
• Hyphenation: be?ka
• Homophone: backa

Noun

beka

1. genitive singular of bek
2. accusative singular of bek

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *beka, from Proto-Oceanic, variously reconstructed as *b?eka, *be?ka or *p?eka. Cognate with Hawaiian pe?a.

Noun

beka

1. bat (flying mammal)

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Spanish beca.

Noun

béka

1. scholarship

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?]. Compare Tagalog bigkas.

Noun

beka (plural beka-beka, informal 1st possessive bekaku, impolite 2nd possessive bekamu, 3rd possessive bekanya)

1. chat
2. discuss

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (bak?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?ka/

Verb

beka (imperfect jibki)

1. to cry

Usage notes

• Colloquially, the conjugated forms may undergo metathesis in some speakers (kbejt and jikbi instead of bkejt, jibki, etc.). Only the basic form and its negative bekiex are generally exempted from this because of the intervening vowel. Probably this phenomenon stems originally from coarticulation in fast speech, but it is not restricted to such contexts anymore.

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-béeka.

Verb

-béka

1. to put, to place

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.ka/

Etymology 1

Noun

beka f

1. (colloquial) Augmentative of beczka.
2. (colloquial) An obese person; fatso; fatty; landwhale.
3. (slang) fun or amusement at somebody's expense; ridicule

Usage notes

Often used in phrases like beka z X, where X is the object of ridicule. For example, beka ze studentów socjologii means roughly "LOL at the social science students".

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

beka m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of bek

Verb

beka

1. third-person singular present of beka?

Further reading

• beka in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• beka in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-béeka.

Verb

-béka

1. to put, place

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????.

Noun

beka (definite accusative bekay?, plural bekalar)

1. survival, lasting, remaining

Declension

References

• beka in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse bika.

Verb

beka

1. (active verb) to tar, pitch

Related terms

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-béeka.

Verb

-béka

1. to put, place

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-béeka.

Verb

-béka

1. to put, place
2. to lay
3. to store
4. to appoint

Inflection

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English bec, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak, snout”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *ba?- (“pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Breton beg (“beak”). Compare Saterland Frisian Bäk (“mouth; muzzle; beak”); Dutch bek (“beak; bill; neb”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bi?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

beak (plural beaks)

1. Anatomical uses.
   1. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
   2. A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
   3. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
   4. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
   5. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
   6. (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
2. Figurative uses.
   1. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.

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   2. (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
   3. (farriery) A toe clip.
   4. (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
   5. (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
   6. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
3. Colloquial uses.
   1. (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
   2. (slang, Southern England) cocaine.

Synonyms

• (rigid structure projecting from a bird's face): bill
• (human nose): honker, schnozzle

Derived terms

• beakish
• beaky
• wet one's beak

Translations

Verb

beak (third-person singular simple present beaks, present participle beaking, simple past and past participle beaked)

1. (transitive) Strike with the beak.
2. (transitive) Seize with the beak.
3. (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.

Synonyms

• (play truant): See also Thesaurus:play truant

Etymology 2

Unknown; originally cant; first recorded in 17thC; probably related to obsolete cant beck "constable".

Noun

beak (plural beaks)

1. (slang, Britain) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Ch. XXXVIII:

     They take up men, Dick, for going about in women's clothes, and vice versaw, I suppose. You'll bail me, old fellaa, if I have to make my bow to the beak, won't you?

   • 1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers

     Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak.
2. (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]:

     It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.

References

• Ranko Matasovi? (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, ?ISBN, page 60

Anagrams

• Baek, bake, beka

Basque

Noun

beak

1. absolutive plural of be
2. ergative singular of be