different between bey vs bely

English

Etymology

From Turkish bey (“gentleman, chief”), from Old Turkic ????????? (b²g /bég/, “chief, titled man”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /be?/
• (AusE) IPA^(key): /bæ?/
• (GenAm) IPA^(key): /be?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

bey (plural beys)

1. (historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 512:

     She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess.

   • 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, p. 15:

     Whether his position with the Third Circle made the difference or the fact that he ranked as a bey, life in El Iskandryia was proving easier than he'd ever dreamed possible when he stepped off the plane.

2. in various other places, a prince or nobleman

Derived terms

• begum

Translations

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “bey”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Anagrams

• 'bye, Bye, Eby, bye

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?j/

Noun

bey m (plural beys)

1. bey

German

Preposition

bey

1. Obsolete spelling of bei

Middle English

Noun

bey

1. Alternative form of bee

Spanish

Etymology

From Turkish bey.

Noun

bey m (plural beyes)

1. bey

Talysh

Verb

bey

1. to be

Conjugation

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg), from Old Anatolian Turkish ??? (beg, “ruler”). Akin to Old Turkic ????????? (beg, “chief, titled man”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (beg, “lord, chief”), Karakhanid ????? (b?g, “chief, a woman's husband”).

There are different theories about the further etymology of the word.

• According to one theory the word may ultimately come from Middle Chinese ? (MC p?æk?, “hundred”), ? (MC p?æk?, “the head of a hundred men”), or ? (MC p?æk?, “eldest brother, father's older brother > count”) ~ ? (MC p?æk?, “hegemon”).
• Another theory states that the word may have its origins in Middle Iranian, specifically Sogdian [script needed] (baga, “lord, master”) or Old Persian ???? (BG, “god”), all from Proto-Iranian *bagáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *b?agás (“god”, literally “dispenser”). However, German Turkologist Gerhard Doerfer assessed the derivation from an Iranian language as quite uncertain and pointed out that the word may be genuinely Turkic.

Unrelated to Turkish bay (“gentleman”).

Noun

bey (definite accusative beyi, plural beyler)

1. gentleman, mister
2. lord, master
3. husband

Declension

Synonyms

• bay
• beyefendi

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: bej
• ? Armenian: ??? (bey)
• ? Azerbaijani: b?y
• ? Bulgarian: ??? (bej)
• ? Dutch: bei
• ? English: bey
• ? Finnish: bey
• ? French: bey
• ? Georgian: ??? (bai)
• ? German: Bey
• ? Greek: ????? (béis), ???? (véis)
• ? Hungarian: bey
• ? Portuguese: bei
• ? Russian: ??? (bej)
• ? Spanish: bey

References

Wolof

Verb

bey

1. to farm

Derived terms

English

Noun

bely (plural belies)

1. Obsolete spelling of belly

Verb

bely (third-person singular simple present belies, present participle belying, simple past and past participle belied or belyed)

1. Obsolete spelling of belie

Anagrams

• Bley, Blye, bley