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English

Noun

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

1. (Scotland) woe

   Wae is me!

Anagrams

• AEW, Awe, EAW, WEA, awe, eaw

Buginese

Alternative forms

• ???
• uae (Soppeng)

Etymology

From Proto-South Sulawesi *wai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

wae (Lontara spelling ???)

1. water (clear liquid H?O)

Buru (Indonesia)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

wae

1. (Namrole Bay) water

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Scots

Etymology

From Old English w?, w?a, from Proto-Germanic *wai, whence also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish ????? (vey). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Compare Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek ???? (ouaí), Persian ???? (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian ??? (vay).

Noun

wae (plural waes)

1. woe

Anagrams

• awe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?/, enPR: b?
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: bay

Etymology 1

From babe or baby by shortening. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from “Before Anyone Else”, a possible backronym.

Noun

bae (plural baes)

1. (slang) Darling (term of endearment).
   • 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:

     And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You^[sic] better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.

   • 2014, Laken Howard, "Pillow Talk: Let's talk about V-day", The Current (entertainment insert of The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University), 13 February 2014, page 3:

     Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”

   • 2014, "How Steamy Is Your PDA?", Seventeen, June/July 2014, page 98:

     A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bae.

   Synonyms: babe, baby, darling, dear, love, sweetheart, loved one, significant other, special someone

Derived terms

• baecation
• baeless

Etymology 2

From Korean ? (bae).

Noun

bae (plural baes)

1. Asian pear.

Etymology 3

From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.

Verb

bae (third-person singular simple present baes, present participle baeing, simple past and past participle baed)

1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.

Anagrams

• ABE, AEB, Abe, Abé, BEA, Bea, EAB, a-be, abe, aeb, eba

Bislama

Particle

bae

1. Alternative form of bambae

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [p????], (enunciated) [p?? ?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /p?æ?j?j/
• Bender phonemes: {bahyey}

Etymology 1

Noun

bae

1. (Ratak) bamboo

Synonyms

• (R?lik) koba

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pie, from Middle English pye, pie, probably from Latin p?ca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests).

Noun

bae

1. a pie

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Pijin

Etymology

From English by and by

Particle

bae

1. Future tense marker

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ba???/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /bai?/

Noun

bae m (plural baeau)

1. bay

Verb

bae

1. Alternative form of bai

Mutation

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pai??/
• Tone numbers: bae¹
• Hyphenation: bae

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *paj? (“to go”). Cognate with Thai ?? (bpai), Northern Thai ?? (pai), Khün ?? (pai), Lao ?? (pai), Lü ?? (?ay) and ?? (pay), Tai Dam ??, Shan ?? (p?y), Aiton ??, Bouyei bail.

Verb

bae (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ? or ? or ? or ????, old orthography b?i)

1. to go
2. to walk
3. to operate; to run
4. to spend; to use
5. to remove; to get rid of
6. to be lost (from one's possession)
7. (of a liquid) to lose; to leak (gas)
8. (of a firearm) to go off accidentally; to discharge accidentally
9. to deviate
10. (euphemistic) to pass away

Derived terms

Particle

bae (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ? or ? or ? or ????, old orthography b?i)

1. Used after a verb to indicate removal of an object.

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (MC p?ei).

Verb

bae (old orthography b?i)

1. to criticize
2. to judge; to critique
3. to comment on; to correct
4. to approve

Etymology 3

Compare Cantonese ? (pai1, “to plaster”).

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Verb

bae (old orthography b?i)

1. to plaster; to coat