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单词 bee
释义

bee

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bee"

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbiː/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: b, be, Bea

Etymology 1

A bee

From Middle English bee, from Old English bēo, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-.

Noun

bee (plural bees or (dialectal) been)

  1. A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
    • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
      His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge […].
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
      An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      Can there be a more formall, and better ordered policie, divided into so severall charges and offices, more constantly entertained, and better maintained, than that of Bees?
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i], page 17:
      Ariell: / Where the Bee ſucks, there ſuck I, / In a Cowslips bell, I lie, / There I cowch when Owles doe crie, / On the Batts backe I doe flie / after Sommer merrily. / Merrily, merrily, ſhall I liue now / Vnder the bloſſom that hangs on the Bow.
    • 1657, Samuel Purchas, “The Excellency of Bees”, in A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects. […], London: […] R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst, […], OCLC 5952968, page 1:
      Bees are the moſt excellent of all Inſects vvhatſoever, and expreſſe both vvorth and vvonder in all their vvaies: […]
    • 2012 March 31, ‘Subtle poison’, The Economist:
      Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.
Synonyms
  • (flying insect): king of insects
Derived terms
terms derived from bee (noun)
  • apple bee
  • apple-bee
  • bee assassin
  • bee ball
  • bee balm
  • bee baw babbity
  • bee beard
  • bee bearding
  • bee beetle
  • bee bite
  • bee-brained
  • bee bread
  • bee-bread
  • bee candy
  • bee-eater
  • beefarm
  • bee farm
  • bee farming
  • beefarming
  • bee fly
  • bee glue
  • bee gum
  • bee-hive
  • beehive
  • bee hoon
  • bee hotel
  • beehouse
  • bee hummingbird
  • bee in one's bonnet
  • beekeeper
  • beekind
  • bee-line
  • beeline
  • bee louse
  • bee moth
  • bee orchid
  • bee pirate
  • bee purple
  • bee's knees
  • bee sting
  • bee-stung
  • beeswax
  • bee tree
  • bee up one's ass
  • bee-utiful
  • bee vacuum
  • bee wine
  • bee wolf
  • blue-cheeked bee-eater
  • bumble-bee
  • bumble bee
  • bumblebee
  • busy as a bee
  • busy bee
  • carpenter bee
  • chronic bee paralysis virus
  • Chronic bee paralysis virus
  • common carder bee
  • coppice mining bee
  • dog-bee
  • European bee-eater
  • green bee-eater
  • have a bee in your bonnet
  • hive bee
  • honeybee
  • honey bee
  • humble-bee
  • Kashmir bee hawkmoth
  • ke-mo sah-bee
  • killer bee
  • leaf-cutter bee
  • leafcutter bee
  • leaf-cutting bee
  • like a bee in clover
  • little green bee-eater
  • long-faced miner bee
  • mason bee
  • meat bee
  • mining bee
  • nameless bee disease
  • orchid bee
  • plasterer bee
  • poppy bee
  • put the bee on
  • queen bee
  • queen bee acid
  • quilting bee
  • resin bee
  • southeastern blueberry bee
  • spotted bee balm
  • stingless bee
  • sting like a bee
  • sweat bee
  • upholsterer bee
  • violet carpenter bee
  • Wallace's giant bee
  • worker bee
  • working bee
Translations
See also
  • apiology, apiculture, beekeeping
  • (castes): worker bee, worker, queen bee, queen, drone
  • (behavior): beehive, eusocial, hive, swarm, tremble dance, waggle dance
  • (anatomy): corbicula, sarothrum, scopa, sting
  • (substances): ambrosia, beebread, beeswax, honey, honeycomb, propolis, royal jelly
  • apitherapy
  • (hives): apiary, beehouse, skep, Langstroth hive,
  • (equipment): super, queen-cage, bee escape, duplet, honey extractor, topbar, bee smoker, apidictor
  • (diseases): chalkbrood, colony collapse disorder, foulbrood, nosema, sacbrood, stonebrood, varroa
  • apian
  • apiarian
  • apiarist
  • apimania
  • Appendix:Animals
  • Appendix:English collective nouns
  • Category:en:Beekeeping
  • dumbledore
  • hornet
  • pollinator
  • wasp

Etymology 2

Possibly from dialectal bene, been, bean (“help given by neighbours”), from Middle English been, bene (“neighbourly help, prayer, petition, request, extra service given by a tenant to his lord”),[1][2] from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“prayer, request, supplication”). Thus a variant of obsolete ben (“prayer; petition”) and doublet of boon. Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Dutch ban (“curse”), German Bann (“ban”). More at ban.

Noun

bee (plural bees)

  1. A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
    geography bee
  2. A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
    • 1856, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Recollections of a Lifetime
      The cellar […] was dug by a bee in a single day.
    • 1973, Alan Skeoch, Tony H. Smith, Canadians and their society (page 139)
      There was but little variation in types of buildings in the pioneer period: house, church, store, barn and mill were usually much alike except in size, and a raising bee was the ordinary means of their erection.
    • 2011, Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement, 21 Sep 2011:
      Particularly resistant, for example, in many parts of northern Europe was the “spinning bee”, a nocturnal gathering of women to exchange gossip, stories, refreshment and – crucially – light and heat, as they spun wool or flax, knitted or sewed.
Derived terms
  • husking bee
  • spelling bee
Translations
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

Etymology 3

From Middle English beeȝ, bie, bei, begh, beiȝe, bege, beah, bye, from Old English bēah, bēag, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz. Doublet of beag, a learned borrowing.

Noun

bee (plural bees)

  1. (obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Caxton 1485, Book 7, Chapter xxxv:
      And kyng Arthur gaf her a ryche bee of gold and soo she departed
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, page 16:
      ...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees, the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...

Etymology 4

Variant spellings.

Verb

bee

  1. Obsolete spelling of be
    • 1604 Reverend Cawdrey Table Aleph
      held that a ‘Nicholaitan is an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike.’
  2. (obsolete) past participle of be; been
    Cride out, Now now Sir knight, shew what ye bee,

Etymology 5

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English be, from Latin be (the name of the letter B).

Noun

bee (plural bees)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter B.
    • 2004 Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, p. 170
      "The ee-vee-ee-ar-en-oh-ee-ell-blank-bee-ell-oh-ess-ess-oh-em-blank-en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar is especially dee-ee-ell-eye-cee-eye-oh-you-ess." Our friends thanked the spelling bee for his help and then he buzzed off.
Derived terms
  • Seabee
Translations
See also
  • (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Etymology 6

Probably from Old English bēah (“ring”). Compare bow.

Noun

bee (plural bees)

  1. (nautical, usually in the plural) Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.
Synonyms
  • bee block

References

  1. “Archived copy”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 4 March 2012, archived from the original on 2012-06-16
  2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bee%5B3%5D

Anagrams

  • EBE

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbeː/
  • Hyphenation: bee

Verb

bée (autobenefactive beeté)

  1. (transitive) to take
  2. (transitive) to take away
  3. (transitive, + l-case) to overcome
  4. (transitive, + l-case) to be angry with

Conjugation

    Conjugation of bee (type II verb)
1st singular2nd singular3rd singular1st plural2nd plural3rd plural
mf
perfectiveV-affirmativebéehbeytéhbéehbeytéhbeynéhbeyteeníhbeeníh
N-affirmativebéebeytébéebeytébeynébeyténbéen
negativemábeyinniyomábeyinnitomábeyinnamábeyinnamábeyinninomábeyinnitonmábeyinnon
imperfectiveV-affirmativebeyáhbeytáhbeyáhbeytáhbeynáhbeytaanáhbeyaanáh
N-affirmativebeyábeytábeyábeytábeynábeytánbeyán
negativemábeyamábeytamábeyamábeytamábeynamábeytanmábeyan
prospectiveV-affirmativebéeliyoh
béeyyoh		béelitoh
béettoh		béelehbéelehbéelinoh
béennoh		béelitoonuh
béettoonuh		béeloonuh
N-affirmativebéeliyo
béeyyo		béelito
béetto		béelebéelebéelino
béenno		béeliton
béetton		béelon
conjunctive IV-affirmativebéyuhbéyuhbéyuhbéyuhbéyuhbeytóonuhbeyóonuh
N-affirmativebéyubéyubéyubéyubéyubeytónbeyón
negativebée wáyuhbée wáytuhbée wáyuhbée wáytuhbée wáynuhbée waytóonuhbée wóonuh
conjunctive IIV-affirmativebeyánkehbeytánkehbeyánkehbeytánkehbeynánkehbeytaanánkehbeyaanánkeh
N-affirmativebeyánkebeytánkebeyánkebeytánkebeynánkebeytaanánkebeyaanánke
negativebée wáankehbée waytánkehbée wáankehbée waytánkehbée waynánkehbée waytaanánkehbée wáankeh
jussiveaffirmativebéyaybéyaybéyaybéyaybéyaybeytóonaybeyóonay
negativebée wáaybée wáytaybée wáaybée wáytaybée wáynaybée waytóonaybée wóonay
past
conditional		affirmativebeyinniyóybeyinnitóybeyinnáybeyinnáybeyinninóybeyinnitoonúybeyinnoonúy
negativebée wanniyóybée wannitóybée wannáybée wannáybée wanninóybée wannitoonúybée wanninoonúy
present
conditional I		affirmativebéekbeytékbéekbeytékbeynékbeyteeníkbeeník
negativebée wéekbée waytékbée wéekbée waytékbée waynékbée wayteeníkbée weeník
singularpluralsingularplural
consultativeaffirmativebeyóobeynóoimperativeaffirmativebéybéya
negativemabeyóomabeynóonegativemábeyinmábeyina
-h converb-i form-k converb-in(n)uh converb-innuk converbinfinitiveindefinite participle
V-focusN-focus
béyahbéyibéyakbeyínnuhbeyínnukbeyíyyabeyináanihbeyináan
Compound tenses
past perfectaffirmative perfective + perfective of én or sugé
present perfectaffirmative perfective + imperfective of én
future perfectaffirmative perfective + prospective of sugé
past progressive-k converb + imperfective of én or sugé
present progressiveaffirmative imperfect + imperfective of én
future progressive-k converb + prospective of sugé
immediate futureaffirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of wée
imperfect potential Iaffirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of takké
imperfect
potential II		affirmativeimperfective + -m + takké
negativebée + imperfective of wée + -m + takké
perfect
potential		affirmativeperfective + -m + takké
negativebée + perfective of wée + -m + takké
present
conditional II		affirmativeimperfective + object pronoun + tekkék
negativebée + perfective of wée + object pronoun + tekkék
perfect
conditional		affirmativeperfective + imperfective of sugé + -k
negativeperfective + sugé + imperfective of wée -k
irrealisbée + perfective of xaaxé or raaré

References

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Aiwoo

Verb

bee

  1. (intransitive) to grow

References

  • Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Aukan

Etymology

From English belly.

Noun

bee

  1. belly, stomach
  2. uterus, womb
  3. pregnancy
  4. lineage, family line

References

  • Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)

Dumbea

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ᵐbe/

Noun

bee

  1. fish

References

  • Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
  • Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Estonian

Noun

bee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter B.

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin bē.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbeː/, [ˈbe̞ː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Syllabification(key): bee

Noun

bee

  1. bee (The name of the Latin-script letter B.)

Usage notes

  • Speakers often use the corresponding forms of b-kirjain ("letter B, letter b") instead of inflecting this word, especially in plural.

Declension

Inflection of bee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominativebeebeet
genitivebeenbeiden
beitten
partitivebeetäbeitä
illativebeehenbeihin
singularplural
nominativebeebeet
accusativenom.beebeet
gen.been
genitivebeenbeiden
beitten
partitivebeetäbeitä
inessivebeessäbeissä
elativebeestäbeistä
illativebeehenbeihin
adessivebeelläbeillä
ablativebeeltäbeiltä
allativebeellebeille
essivebeenäbeinä
translativebeeksibeiksi
instructive—bein
abessivebeettäbeittä
comitative—beineen
Possessive forms of bee (type maa)
possessorsingularplural
1st personbeenibeemme
2nd personbeesibeenne
3rd personbeensä

Synonyms

  • b-kirjain

Fula

Alternative forms

  • beni

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Particle

bee

  1. it must, it is necessary that
    iggey yimbe bee bonnii taariinde nde no feewi.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Dialectal variants

  • maal
  • doole
  • tilay
  • say
  • sey

See also

  • duwaa

References

  • Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Hadza

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beʔe/

Pronoun

bee f pl (masc. bami, masc. plural bii, fem. bôko)

  1. they (fem. or mixed gender)
  • habee
  • nâbee
  • himiggêbee
  • beena

Hungarian

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɛɛ]
  • Hyphenation: bee
  • Rhymes: -ɛ

Interjection

bee

  1. baa (sound of a sheep)

See also

  • béget

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbe.e/, [ˈbeɛ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbe.e/, [ˈbɛːe]

Interjection

bee

  1. baa (sound of a sheep)

References

  • “bee”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • bee in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Mandinka

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beː/

Noun

bee

  1. (anatomy) vagina

Manx

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bíad (“food”). Cognate with Irish bia and Scottish Gaelic biadh.

Noun

bee m (genitive singular bee, plural beeghyn)

  1. food
  2. provisions
  3. nourishment
  4. diet
Derived terms
  • bee ny jeeghyn (“ambrosia”)
  • bee millish (“sweetmeat, sweet”)
  • bee moddee (“dog food”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bee

  1. inflection of ve:
    1. future
    2. second-person singular imperative

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
beeveemee
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

bee

Alternative forms

  • be, beo, bey

Etymology

From Old English bēo, from Proto-West Germanic *biju, from Proto-Germanic *bijō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beː/
  • (Early Middle English) IPA(key): /bøː/

Noun

bee (plural been or bees)

  1. A bee (insect that collects pollen)
    • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1693-1696:
      Right so as bees out swarmen from an hyve, / Out of the develes ers ther gonne dryve / Twenty thousand freres on a route / And thurghout helle swarmed al aboute...
      Just like bees swarm from a hive / Out of the devil's arse there were driven / Twenty thousand friars on a rout / And throughout hell they swarmed all about...

Descendants

  • English: bee
  • Scots: bee, be, beye, bie, bea
  • Yola: been (plural)

References

  • “bẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-24.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pèː/
  • Audio (NV)(file)

Postposition

bee

  1. with, by means of, by means of it

Inflection

Navajo postpositions
singularduoplural
1st personsheenihee
2nd personneenihee
3rd personbee
4th person (3o)yee
4th person (3a)hee
4th person (3i)ee—
reflexiveádee—
reciprocal—ahee

Old Irish

Verb

bee

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive absolute of at·tá

Romanian

Interjection

bee

  1. Obsolete form of behehe.

References

  • bee in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Noun

bee

  1. ant

References

  • López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 25

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bēthe, from Proto-Germanic *bai (“both”) + *sa (“the”). Cognates include West Frisian beide and German beide.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beː/
  • Hyphenation: bee
  • Rhymes: -eː

Determiner

bee

  1. both

Pronoun

bee

  1. both

Usage notes

  • When used pronominally referring to two people (rather than objects or animals), the plural beeën is used.

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015), “bee”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Tetum

bee

Alternative forms

  • wee (Tetun-Terik)

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

bee

  1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

Võro

Noun

bee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter B.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English by, from Old English bi, from Proto-West Germanic *bī. Cognates include English by and Scots by.

Alternative forms

  • bie, be, by

Preposition

bee

  1. by

Verb

bee

  1. Alternative form of ba (“to be”)
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 22:
      ye vaste pace whilke bee ee-stent owr ye londe zince th'ast ee-cam,
      the profound peace——which overspreads the land since your arrival,

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 25 & 114
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