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Arabic
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب / ب / ب / ب • (bāʔ)
- The second letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is بَاء (bāʔ) and it has the sound of English b. It is preceded by أ (ʔ) and followed by ت (t).
See also
[edit]Symbol
[edit]ب / ب / ب / ب • (bāʔ)
- The second letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by أ (ʔ) and followed by ج (j).
Noun
[edit]ب • (b)
- Abbreviation of باب (bāb, “chapter”).
Etymology 2
[edit]Ultimately Proto-Semitic *bV- (“with, in, at, among”) with likely interrelation with Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“site, location; nest, house”); cognates with Ugaritic 𐎁 (b), Aramaic ב־, Classical Syriac ܒ-, Hebrew בְּ־ (bə-), Ge'ez በ (bä) and Egyptian bw.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]بِـ • (bi-)
- denotes an instrument or tool, with, by (a means)
- طَرَقْتُ الْمِسْمَارَ بِمِطْرَقَةٍ
- ṭaraqtu l-mismāra bi-miṭraqatin
- I hit the nail with a hammer
- رَماهُم بِٱلْحِجَارَةِ
- ramāhum bi-l-ḥijārati
- He pelted them with stones.
- denotes the agent of unaccusative forms
- هُوَ يَتَقَوَّى بِهِ
- huwa yataqawwā bihi
- He is strengthened by it
- Coordinate term: (post-Classical) بِوَاسِطَة (biwāsiṭa, denotes the agent of passive forms)
- denotes accompaniment
- Coordinate term: مَعَ (maʕa)
- denotes proximity, with, to, next to, at (touching on, connected with, concerning)
- مَرْبُوطٌ بِشَجَرَةٍ ― marbūṭun bi-šajaratin ― tied to a tree
- لَا عَلاقةَ لَهُ بِٱلْمَوْضُوعِ ― lā ʕalāqata lahu bi-l-mawḍūʕi ― unrelated to the subject
- denotes inclusion, surrounding, or location, within (a place); in; on; at
- بِٱلْأَرْضِ ― bi-l-ʔarḍi ― on the earth/in or inside the ground
- بِٱلقَرْيةِ ― bi-l-qaryati ― in the village
- بِٱلْمَكْتَبَةِ ― bi-l-maktabati ― at the library
- بِٱلْمَكْتَبِ ― bi-l-maktabi ― at the office/in the desk
- Synonym: فِي (fī)
- denotes requital, giving or doing in return; for
- اِشْتَرَيْتُهُ بِأَلْفِ رِيَالٍ.
- ištaraytuhu bi-ʔalfi riyālin.
- I bought it for a thousand riyals.
- marks the predicate of a negative copula
- هُوَ لَيْسَ بِشَاهِدٍ وَلَا بِقَارِئٍ.
- huwa laysa bi-šāhidin wa-lā bi-qāriʔin.
- He is not one who witnessed [it] or read [it].
Inflection
[edit]Inflected forms | |||||
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Base form | بِـ (bi-) | ||||
Personal-pronoun- including forms |
Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
Masculine | Feminine | Common | Masculine | Feminine | |
First person | بِي (bī) | بِنَا (binā) | |||
Second person | بِكَ (bika) | بِكِ (biki) | بِكُمَا (bikumā) | بِكُمْ (bikum) | بِكُنَّ (bikunna) |
Third person | بِهِ (bihi) | بِهَا (bihā) | بِهِمَا (bihimā) | بِهِمْ (bihim) | بِهِنَّ (bihinna) |
Derived terms
[edit]Balti
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب (transliteration needed)
- The second letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script
Burushaski
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب (transliteration needed)
- The fourth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script
Central Kurdish
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب / ب / ب / ب (bā)
- The second letter of the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet. Its name is با (ba) and it has the sound of English b. It is preceded by ا (a) and followed by پ (pi). Equivalent to b in the Kurdo-Latin alphabet.
See also
[edit]Chinese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب
- The second letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad.
Egyptian Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Ottoman Turkish convention.
Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (be)
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See also
[edit]پ (be be-talat noʔaṭ)
Gujarati
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (be)
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]Hijazi Arabic
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (bāʔ)
- The second letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is بَاء (bāʔ), and is preceded by أ (ʔalif) and followed by ت (tāʔ).
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]- پ (pāʔ)
Etymology 2
[edit]Probably from a shortened form of Arabic بَغْيْ (baḡy, “to want”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]بِـ • (bi)
- -ing (prefix indicating the present continuous tense)
- بِيِتْكَلَّم
- biyitkallam
- he is speaking
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]بِـ • (bi)
Kashmiri
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (b)
- The second letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]Kazakh
[edit]Alternative scripts | |
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Arabic | ب |
Cyrillic | Б, б |
Latin | B, b |
Yañalif | B, ʙ |
Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (b)
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]- Previous letter: ا
- Next letter: پ
- (Arabic script letters) ا, ب, پ, ت, ج, چ, ح, د, ر, ز, س, ش, ع, ف, ق, ك, گ, ڭ, ل, م, ن, ە, ھ, و, ۇ, ۋ, ۆ, ى, ي.
Khowar
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب (be)
- The second letter of the Khowar abjad.
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]Kyrgyz
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (be)
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]- (Arabic script letters) ا, ب, پ, ﻥ, ﺕ, ﺝ, ﭺ, ﺡ, ﻑ, ﻕ, ﻉ, ك, گ, ڭ, ﻝ, ﻡ, و, ۅ, ۉ, ﯗ, ﯞ, ﺱ, ﺵ, ﺩ, ﺭ, ﺯ, ﻩ, ﻯ, ﯗﺀ, ﻰﺋ, ﻲ, ﻯ, ء, يۋ, ﻻ,
Malay
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Name of letter) IPA(key): [bɐ]
- (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [b]
- (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [p̚]
Letter
[edit]ب / ب / ب / ب
- The second letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.
See also
[edit]- (Arabic script letters) ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ [edit]
Northern Kurdish
[edit]Preposition
[edit]ب (bi)
- Arabic spelling of bi (“by”)
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic and Persian.
Letter
[edit]ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. Its name is با (ba, be).
Preposition
[edit]ب • (be or bi)
References
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 229
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 313
Pashto
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Pashto alphabet.
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]Persian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (phoneme, all dialects) IPA(key): /b/
- (Early Classical Persian, after a vowel) IPA(key): [β]
- (Early Classical Persian, between vowels) IPA(key): [β], [w]
- The phonemes /b/ and /w/ were not strongly distinguished inter-vocally until late Classical Persian.
- (letter name)
Letter
[edit]ب / ب / ب / ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ا and followed by پ. Its name is به (be) or بِ (be).
Punjabi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (be)
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]- Previous letter: ا (alif)
- Next letter: پ (pe)
- (Shahmukhi script letters) ا, ب (b), پ (p), ت (t), ٹ (ṭ), ث (s̱), ج (j), چ (c), ح (ḥ), خ (x), د (d), ڈ (ḍ), ذ (ẕ), ر (r), ڑ (ṛ), ز (z), ژ (ž), س (s), ش (ś), ص (ṣ), ض (ẓ), ط (t̤), ظ (z̤), ع (ʻ), غ (ġ), ف (f), ق (q), ک (k), گ (g), ل (l), ࣇ (ḷ), م (m), ن (n), ݨ (ṇ), ں (ṉ), ہ (h), و (v), ی (y), ے (e) (Category: Punjabi letters)
Sindhi
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Sindhi abjad.
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]South Levantine Arabic
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]بـ • (bi-)
Particle
[edit]بـ • (b-)
- prefix indicating the present tense
Tunisian Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Preposition
[edit]ب (b)
- with
- نحب قهوة بالحليب ― nḥib qahwa b-li-ḥlīb ― I like coffee with milk
- ترعش بالخوف ― turʕuš bi-l-ḵūf ― She is shaking with fear
Inflection
[edit]inflected forms of ب | |||||
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Base form | ب (b) | ||||
Personal-pronoun- including forms |
singular | plural | |||
m | f | ||||
1st person | بي (biyya) | بينا (bīna) | |||
2nd person | بيك (bīk) | بيكم (bīkum) | |||
3rd person | بيه (bīh) | بيها (bīha) | بيهم (bīhum) |
Urdu
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /beː/
- (phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /b/
Letter
[edit]ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Urdu abjad.
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]Uyghur
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب • (be)
- The third letter of the Uyghur alphabet.
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
[edit]Yoruba
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ب (b)
Forms
[edit]Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
See also
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