bes

From Middle English bes.

• IPA^(key): /biːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophone: bees

bes

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of be
   • 1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it:

     She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.

   • 1916, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 44, page 353:

     "An' he bes free times as old as herself," he wailed, " an' ugly as a squid ! But he bes rich — rich as any marchant — an' for the bread an' the fixin's an' the gold she bes takin' 'im."

   • 2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236:

     And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.

2. (dialectal, nonstandard) Present tense inflected form of be: am or are.
   • 1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it:

     She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.

   • 2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236:

     And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.

Into the Early Modern English period, be was still sometimes inflected like regular verbs in the ordinary present indicative (i.e. "they be", in addition to "they are"), although "he bes" was uncommon (compare "he beeth").[1] Today, such inflected forms are limited to the alternate, dynamic / lexical conjugation of be described in its Usage notes.

• is

Borrowed from Latin bes.

bes (plural besses)

1. (historical, numismatics) A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.

bes

1. plural of be (Cyrillic letter)

• BSE, EBs, ESB, EbS, SEB, SbE, Seb

• besu

Probably from a Vulgar Latin vissiō (attested in glosses). Compare Romanian băși, băs.

bes (past participle bishitã)

1. I fart.

• bishinedz

• bishiri / bishire
• bishit
• bishinã

bes

1. too (as in too hard, too much etc.)

   bes joh

   too far (away)

bes

1. plural of be

From Latin basium, from Proto-Indo-European *bu. Compare Occitan bais, Spanish beso, Italian bacio.

bes m (plural besos)

1. kiss

• petó
• besada

• besar

From Latin versus. Doublet of vers.

bes m (plural bessos)

1. (nautical) strip of cloth used as part of a sail or a flag

• “bes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bes” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

bes

1. knife

• bys

From Proto-Brythonic *bɨd, from Proto-Celtic *bitus.

• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [beːz]

bes m (plural besow)

1. (Revived Late Cornish) world

• IPA^(key): /bɛs/

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• Hyphenation: bes
• Rhymes: -ɛs

From Middle Dutch bes, from Old Dutch besi, from Proto-Germanic *basją. Compare English berry, Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

1. berry

   Synonyms: bei, bees, bezie

• → Papiamentu: bèshi (from the diminutive)
• → Jersey Dutch: bääśe (from the diminutive)

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bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

1. (music) B flat

Backformation from besje, from older bestje, from bestemoer or bestemoeder (“grandma, old woman”).

• best

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

1. (chiefly diminutive) an old woman

From Proto-Slavic *bъzъ.

bes m

1. elder (Sambucus)

From a derivative of *duō (“two”) (compare bis) + as.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bes/, [bɛs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bes/, [bɛs]

bes m (genitive bessis); third declension

1. two-thirds, or a two-thirds part of any unit
2. a coin worth two-thirds of an as

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• bes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

From English base.

bes (Jawi spelling بيس‎, plural bes-bes, informal 1st possessive besku, 2nd possessive besmu, 3rd possessive besnya)

1. (chemistry) base, any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.

• basa (Indonesian)

• “bes” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

A version of bith with the third-person singular ending replaced with -es as in other verbs (in some dialects) and the vowel of the infinitive been leveled in.

bes

1. Alternative form of bith

bes

1. passive form of be

• bas

• IPA^(key): [bʲes]

bes

1. third-person singular present subjunctive relative of is

From Portuguese vez and Spanish vez and Kabuverdianu vés.

bes

1. times as in "three times is too much"
2. occasion, instance

• bijȇs (Ijekavian)

From Proto-Slavic *běsъ (“evil spirit”).

• IPA^(key): /bêːs/

bȇs m (Cyrillic spelling бе̑с)

1. rage
2. fury
3. madness
4. mania
5. tantrum
6. wildness
7. ferocity
8. rampage

• IPA^(key): /ˈbes/ [ˈbes]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: bes
• Homophones: ves, (Latin America) vez

bes m (plural beses)

1. bes (two-thirds of an as (Roman measurement), around 219.3 grams)

bes f pl

1. plural of be

• “bes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

bes

1. infinitive passive of be.
2. present tense passive of be.

Clipping from English best friend.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbes/, [ˈbes]

bes

1. (slang, colloquial) term of address for one's friend, especially a close one: friend; best friend

The term is typically used by women, and may sound effeminate when used by men.

• beshie

bes

1. five