bed

== Translingual == === Symbol === bed (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bedoanas. === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Bedoanas terms == English == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɛd/ (African-American Vernacular, some speakers) IPA(key): [ˈbeː] (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈbed/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈbe̝d/ Rhymes: -ɛd Hyphenation: bed === Noun === bed (countable and uncountable, plural beds) (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. A prepared spot in which to spend the night. (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest. (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep. (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime. (uncountable) Time spent in a bed. (figurative) Marriage. (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity. Clipping of bedroom. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. [from later 16thc.] An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found. A garden plot. A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled. Synonym: tray Hyponym: truckbed A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet. (printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid. (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned. A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks. (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire. (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline. (heading) A horizontal layer or surface. A deposit of ore, coal, etc. (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below. Synonyms: layer, stratum (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone. (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall. ==== Usage notes ==== To prepare a bed (in the sense of sleeping furniture) is usually to make the bed, or (Southern US) to spread the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread. Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, bed requires no article after certain prepositions: hence in bed (“lying in a bed”), go to bed (“get into a bed”), and so on. The forms in a bed, etc. do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the bed, without it being for the purpose of sleep. See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Chichewa: bedi → Chuukese: pet → Esperanto: bedo → Japanese: ベッド (beddo) ==== Translations ==== === Verb === bed (third-person singular simple present beds, present participle bedding, simple past and past participle bedded) Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping. (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep. (transitive) To place in a bed. (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding. (ambitransitive) To have sex (with). [from early 14th c.] Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid. (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed. 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement. (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed. (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed. (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. To settle, as machinery. ==== Derived terms ==== bed down embed ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === bed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === BDE, DBE, DEB, Deb, Deb., EBD, Edb., deb == Afrikaans == === Etymology === From Dutch bed, from Middle Dutch bedde, from Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-Germanic *badją. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɛt/ === Noun === bed (plural beddens, diminutive bedjie) bed Synonym: kooi == Australian Kriol == === Etymology 1 === From English bird. ==== Noun ==== bed bird === Etymology 2 === From English bed. ==== Noun ==== bed bed == Breton == === Alternative forms === béd (Skolveurieg) === Etymology === From Proto-Brythonic *bɨd, from Proto-Celtic *bitus. Cognates include Welsh byd and Cornish bys. === Noun === bed m (plural bedoù) world universe === Mutation === === References === Ian Press (1986), A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 322 == Danish == === Etymology 1 === From German Beet (“bed for plants”), originally the same word as Bett (“bed for sleeping”), from Proto-Germanic *badją, cognate with English bed and Swedish bädd. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): [ˈb̥eð] ==== Noun ==== bed n (singular definite bedet, plural indefinite bede) bed (a garden plot) ===== Inflection ===== === Etymology 2 === From Old Norse beit f (“pasturage”), Old Norse beita f (“bait”), from Proto-Germanic *baitō (“food, bait”), cognate with German Beize (“mordant”) (whence Danish bejdse). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): [ˈb̥eˀð], [ˈb̥eðˀ] ==== Noun ==== bed (definitive plural bedene) (obsolete) pasturage only in the expression: gå nogen i bedene "poach on someone's preserves" === Etymology 3 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): [ˈb̥eˀð], [ˈb̥eðˀ] ==== Verb ==== bed past of bide === Etymology 4 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): [ˈb̥eˀ], (solemnly) IPA(key): [ˈb̥eˀð], [ˈb̥eðˀ] ==== Verb ==== bed imperative of bede == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch bedde, from Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɛt/ Hyphenation: bed Rhymes: -ɛt === Noun === bed n (plural bedden, diminutive bedje n) bed (furniture for sleeping) Synonym: sponde f (archaic) Ze kocht een nieuw bed voor haar nieuwe appartement. ― She bought a new bed for her new apartment. Ik wil vroeg naar bed gaan vanavond. ― I want to go to bed early tonight. Dit bed is zo comfortabel dat ik er de hele dag in zou kunnen blijven. ― This bed is so comfortable, I could stay in it all day. (garden, agriculture) patch, bed layer, often a substratum bed of a body of water ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: bed Berbice Creole Dutch: bedi Negerhollands: bet, bedi, bere, bedde → Virgin Islands Creole: bedi (archaic) Skepi Creole Dutch: bede → Caribbean Javanese: bèt →? Mohegan-Pequot: beed → Papiamentu: bèt, bèchi, bèrchi, bed → Saramaccan: bédi →? Sranan Tongo: bedi → Caribbean Hindustani: bedi → Caribbean Javanese: bèḍi → Kari'na: bedi == Hawaiian Creole == === Etymology === Derived from English bed. === Noun === bed (countable) bed (a piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep) == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, form Proto-Germanic *badją. ==== Alternative forms ==== bedd (uncommon); bæd (Early Middle English); bedde, bede (Late Middle English) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /bɛd/ ==== Noun ==== bed (plural beddes, genitive singular beddes, dative singular bedde) A place of rest or sleep: A bed; a piece of furniture for sleeping on. A pallet, bedroll, or other portable bed. (rare) A bedroom or resting-place. A flowerbed; a garden plot. In extended or figurative senses: Sex; sexual intercourse. A personal attribute that supports (someone or something). A kind of rough fabric for bedding. (rare) One's lineage or descent. (rare) One's place of burial. ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== English: bed Middle Scots: bed, bede Scots: bed ===== References ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== bed alternative form of bede == Northern Kurdish == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛd === Adjective === bed bad == Norwegian Bokmål == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /beːd/ === Etymology 1 === From Danish bed, from German Beet. ==== Noun ==== bed n (definite singular bedet, indefinite plural bed, definite plural beda or bedene) (horticulture) a bed (for plants) ===== Derived terms ===== blomsterbed === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== bed imperative of bede === References === “bed” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology 1 === From German Beet. ==== Noun ==== bed n (definite singular bedet, indefinite plural bed, definite plural beda) (horticulture) a bed (for plants) ===== Derived terms ===== blomsterbed === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== bed present tense of beda imperative of beda === Etymology 3 === From Old Norse beðr. ==== Noun ==== bed m (definite singular beden, indefinite plural bedar, definite plural bedane) (pre-2012) alternative form of bedd === References === “bed” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bed/ Rhymes: -ed === Noun === bed n alternative form of bedd ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: == Old Irish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbʲeð/ === Etymology 1 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== ·bed third-person singular past subjunctive of at·tá ===== Alternative forms ===== ·beth === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== bed inflection of is: third-person singular past subjunctive third-person singular/second-person plural imperative third-person singular conditional relative ===== Alternative forms ===== bad (3 sg. past subj.; 3 sg. and 2 pl. imperative) === Mutation === == Old Saxon == === Alternative forms === bedd, beddi === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“dug sleeping-place”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”). Cognate with Old Frisian bed, Old English bedd, Dutch bed, Old High German betti, Old Norse beðr, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹 (badi). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd, Breton bez (“grave”). === Noun === bed n bed ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle Low German: bedde Low German: Bett, Bedd Dutch Low Saxon: bedde German Low German: Bedd Plautdietsch: Bad, Bed → Icelandic: beddi == Scots == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”). === Noun === bed (plural beds) (countable) bed (a piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep) == Swedish == === Verb === bed (contracted be) imperative of bedja == Volapük == === Etymology === Borrowed from English bed and German Bett. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bed/ === Noun === bed (genitive beda, plural beds) bed ==== Declension ====