Beatles

Beatles

English

The Beatles

Etymology

Originally spelled Beatals, punningly referencing the expression beat all (“surpass everything”), then later altered to Beatles, blend of beat +‎ beetles, with beat referring to "beat music" or the "beat" of a drum, and beetles inspired by the contemporaneous band name The Crickets.[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːtl̩z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːtl̩z/, [ˈbiːɾɫ̩z]
  • Homophone: beetles

Proper noun

The Beatles pl (plural only)

1. An extremely successful and influential British rock music quartet that operated primarily in the 1960s.

   Synonym: Fab Four

Derived terms

• Beatle
• Beatle boot
• Beatle cut
• Beatledom
• Beatlehead
• Beatle-ish
• Beatle-less
• Beatlelike
• Beatlemania
• Beatlemaniac
• Beatleness
• Beatles-like
• Beatlesque
• Beatley
• pre-Beatles
• the Fifth Beatle

 

Translations

rock music quartet

Arabic: بِيتْلْز‎ pl (bītlz), بِيتِيلْز‎ pl (bītilz) Armenian: Բիթլզ (Bitʿlz) Azerbaijani: Bitlz Belarusian: Бітлз pl (Bitlz) Bengali: দ্য বিটল্‌স (dẏ biṭôl‌sô), বিটল্‌স (biṭôl‌sô) Bulgarian: Би́йтълс pl (Bíjtǎls) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Cantonese: 披頭四 (pei1 tau4 sei3) Mandarin: 披頭士／披头士 (Pītóushì), 披頭四／披头四 (Pītóusì) Faroese: Beatles, Beatlarnir m pl Finnish: Beatles French: Beatles (fr) m pl Georgian: ბითლზი (bitlzi) Greek: Μπητλς (Bitls) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: הביטלס‎ (haBitels) Hindi: द बीटल्स (da bīṭals), बीटल्स (bīṭals) Icelandic: Bítlarnir Japanese: ビートルズ (Bītoruzu), ザ・ビートルズ (za-Bītoruzu) Kannada: ದಿ ಬೀಟಲ್ಸ್ (di bīṭals), ಬೀಟಲ್ಸ್ (bīṭals) Korean: 비틀즈 (Biteuljeu), 더 비틀즈 (deo Biteuljeu) Macedonian: Битлси pl (Bitlsi) Malayalam: ദി ബീറ്റിൽസ് (di bīṟṟilsŭ), ബീറ്റിൽസ് (bīṟṟilsŭ) Marathi: बीटल्स (bīṭalsa) Mongolian: Битлз (Bitlz) Nepali: द बिटल्स (da biṭalsa) Persian: بیتلز‎ (bitelz) Portuguese: Os Beatles m pl Russian: Битлз pl (Bitlz), Битлы́ pl (Bitlý) (colloquial) Serbo-Croatian: Битлси pl, Beatlesi pl Spanish: los Beatles m pl Swedish: Beatles pl, Beatlarna c pl Tamil: பீட்டில்ஸ் (pīṭṭils) Telugu: ద బీటిల్స్ (da bīṭils), బీటిల్స్ (bīṭils) Thai: เดอะบีตเทิลส์ (dùh bèet-tern) Turkish: Beatles Ukrainian: Бітлз pl (Bitlz) Urdu: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: די ביטלס‎ m pl (di bitls) Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Beatles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

Beatles

1. plural of Beatle

References

1. Greg Metzer, Rock Band Name Origins (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co.) 2008.
2. Kenneth Womack, The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four (Santa Barbara: Greenwood) 2017.

Anagrams

• belates, besteal

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Spanish

Proper noun

Beatles m pl

1. Beatles (rock music quartet)