different between beka vs bema

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

From Ancient Greek ???? (bêma, “a step”), from the root of ????? (baín?, “I go, step”). Doublet of bima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?m?/

Noun

bema (plural bemas or bemata)

1. A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
2. Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah.

Quotations

• 1707, Royal Society, Miscellanea curiosa: Being a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age. Together with several discourses read before the Royal society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge, Volume 3, page 46:

  I observed but one step from the Body of the Church to the Bema or place where the Altar formerly stood.

Anagrams

• BAME, Bame, Beam, Mabe, ambe, beam, mabe

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu -bhema.

Verb

bema

1. to smoke