bebe
التعريفات والمعاني
== Casiguran Dumagat Agta ==
=== Noun ===
bebe
woman
=== References ===
A Dumagat (Casiguran) - English Dictionary, Pacific Linguistics: Series C, No. 28 (as bébe)
ABVD (as bɨ'beq)
Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (as bə-be)
== Fijian ==
=== Noun ===
bebe
butterfly
== Galician ==
=== Verb ===
bebe
inflection of beber:
third-person singular present indicative
second-person singular imperative
== German ==
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Verb ===
bebe
inflection of beben:
first-person singular present
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
singular imperative
== Haitian Creole ==
=== Etymology ===
From French bébé (“baby”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /beˈbe/
=== Noun ===
bebe
baby
== Interlingua ==
=== Etymology ===
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈbe.be/
Rhymes: -ebe
Hyphenation: be‧be
=== Noun ===
bebe
baby (very young human being)
Synonym: baby
== Japanese ==
=== Romanization ===
bebe
Rōmaji transcription of べべ
== Kapampangan ==
=== Alternative forms ===
bebai (obsolete)
=== Etymology ===
From earlier bebai, from Proto-Philippine *baybay. Compare Tagalog baybay.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈbebe/ [ˈbɛː.bɛː]
Hyphenation: be‧be
=== Noun ===
bébé
seashore
riverbank
mountainside
==== Derived terms ====
== Makasar ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈbebe/, [ˈɓɛ.bɛ]
Hyphenation: be‧be
=== Noun ===
bebe (Lontara spelling ᨅᨙᨅᨙ)
drool
==== Synonyms ====
piʼru (saliva)
iloroʼ (moisture in the mouth)
==== Affixations ====
=== Further reading ===
A. A. Cense (2024), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek[1], Brill, →DOI
== Papiamentu ==
=== Etymology ===
From Portuguese beber and Spanish beber and Kabuverdianu bebi.
=== Verb ===
bebe
to drink
== Portuguese ==
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Verb ===
bebe
inflection of beber:
third-person singular present indicative
second-person singular imperative
== Romanian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French bébé and also influenced by English baby.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈbe.be/, /beˈbe/
=== Noun ===
bebe m (uncountable)
baby, infant
Synonyms: bebeluș, copilaș
==== Declension ====
== Spanish ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈbebe/ [ˈbe.β̞e]
Rhymes: -ebe
Syllabification: be‧be
=== Etymology 1 ===
Variant of bebé.
==== Noun ====
bebe m (plural bebes, feminine beba, feminine plural bebas)
(Peru) baby
Synonyms: bebé, wawa
=== Etymology 2 ===
==== Verb ====
bebe
inflection of beber:
third-person singular present indicative
second-person singular imperative
=== Further reading ===
“bebe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
== Sranan Tongo ==
=== Etymology ===
Probably from Fon gbɛ̀gbɛ́-tín (“Pterocarpus tree”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /bebe/, [bɪ̞bɪ̞], [be̝be̝]
=== Noun ===
bebe
any tree of the genus Pterocarpus
==== Derived terms ====
=== References ===
== Tagalog ==
=== Pronunciation ===
(Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbebe/ [ˈbɛː.bɛ]
Rhymes: -ebe
Syllabification: be‧be
=== Noun ===
bebe (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ) (colloquial)
alternative form of beybi
==== Derived terms ====
== Ternate ==
=== Etymology ===
From Indonesian bebek.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈbe.be]
=== Noun ===
bebe
a duck
=== References ===
Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
== Tiruray ==
=== Noun ===
bebe
grandchild
== Turkish ==
=== Etymology ===
Alteration of bebek (“baby”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /beˈbe/, [be̞ˈbɛ]
=== Noun ===
bebe (definite accusative bebeyi, plural bebeler)
(colloquial) child, kid, baby
(colloquial) brat
==== Declension ====
=== Further reading ===
“bebe”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
== West Makian ==
=== Etymology ===
Reduplication of be (“water”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /be.ˈbe/
=== Verb ===
bebe
(transitive, informal) to drink
Synonym: joube (polite)
==== Conjugation ====
=== References ===
Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics (as bebé)