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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhey-der. Proto-Germanic *bijǭ Proto-West Germanic *bijā Old English bēo Middle English be English bee From Middle English be, bee, beo, bey, from Old English bēo, bīo (“bee”), from Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijǭ (“bee”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhey- (“bee”). Cognates Cognate with Yola been (“bees”), North Frisian bi (“bee”), West Frisian bij (“bee”), Dutch bij, by (“bee”), German Biene (“bee”), Limburgish Bé, bie (“bee”), Luxembourgish Bei (“bee”), Vilamovian byn (“bee”), West Flemish bieë (“bee”), Yiddish בין (bin, “bee”), Danish and Swedish bi (“bee”), Faroese býfluga (“bee”), Icelandic bý, býfluga (“bee”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk bie (“bee”); also Irish beach, meach (“bee”), Scottish Gaelic beach (“bee; beehive; wasp”), Latin fūcus (“bee”), Latvian bite (“bee”), Lithuanian bitė (“bee”), Belarusian пчала́ (pčalá, “bee”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian пчела́ (pčelá, “bee”), Czech včála, včela (“bee”), Polish pszczoła (“bee”), Serbo-Croatian пчѐла, bčela, pčèla (“bee”), Slovak včela (“bee”), Slovene čebela (“bee”), Ukrainian бджола́ (bdžolá, “bee”), Ossetian биндзӕ (binʒæ), бындз (bynʒ, “fly”), Pashto وينه (waynë́, wenë́, wuynë́, “termite; white ant”).

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”), from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōni, 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.

From Middle English bie, from Old English bēah, bēag, from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz. Doublet of beag, a learned borrowing; and of bagel.

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

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

Variant spellings.

527 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abenaki: ômwa — insect
• Abkhaz: ашьха (ašxa) — insect
• Afar: diidaleyta — insect
• Afrikaans: by — insect
• Agutaynen: boyong-boyong — insect
• Ahom: 𑜇𑜢𑜤𑜂𑜫 (phüṅ) — insect
• Akawaio: akʉ — insect
• Albanian: bletë — insect
• Albanian: mjalcë — insect
• Aleut: aanasnaadax — insect
• Southern Altai: адару (adaru) — insect
• Southern Altai: аару (aaru) — insect
• Ambonese Malay: niri — insect
• Amharic: ንብ (nəb) — insect
• Guerrero Amuzgo: kích'i — insect
• Andi: пера (pera) — insect
• Antillean Creole: myèl — insect
• Antillean Creole: mouch a myèl — insect
• Antillean Creole: miyèl — insect
• Western Apache: gosnih — insect
• Arabic: نَحْلَة (naḥla) — insect
• Arabic: نَحْل (naḥl) — insect
• Arabic: نحل (naḥl) — insect
• Arabic: نحلة (naḥla) — insect
• Arabic: نحلة (naḥla) — insect
• Aragonese: abella — insect
• Aramaic: ܕܒܫܬܐ (dabbāštā) — insect
• Archi: тӏантӏ (tʼantʼ) — insect
• Armenian: մեղու (meġu) — insect
• Aromanian: alghinã — insect
• Eastern Arrernte: urltampe — insect
• Assamese: মৌমাখি (moumakhi) — insect
• Assamese: মধুকৰ (modhukor) — insect
• Asturian: abeya — insect
• Avar: на (na) — insect
• Aymara: mamuraya — insect
• Azerbaijani: arı — insect
• West Coast Bajau: buani — insect
• Balinese: nyawan — insect
• Banjarese: wanyi — insect
• Bashkir: бал ҡорто (bal qorto) — insect
• Basque: erle — insect
• Bats: ფუტკარ (puṭḳar) — insect
• Belarusian: пчала́ (pčalá) — insect
• Bemba: buci — insect
• Bengali: মৌমাছি (mōumachi) — insect
• Bhojpuri: मधुमाखी (madhumākhī) — insect
• Bau Bidayuh: bonyih — insect
• Central Bikol: putyukan — insect
• Bislama: bi — insect
• Blin: laxla — insect
• Breton: gwenan — insect
• Breton: gwenanenn — insect
• Buginese: awani — insect
• Bulgarian: пчела́ (pčelá) — insect
• Burmese: ပျား (pya:) — insect
• Buryat: зүгы (zügy) — insect
• Cahuilla: 'evéexa' — insect
• Carpathian Rusyn: пчола (pčola) — insect
• Catalan: abella — insect
• Cebuano: putyokan — insect
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵣⵉⵣⵡⵉⵜ (tizizwit) — insect
• Chamicuro: kasenujsi — insect
• Chechen: накхармоза (naqarmoza) — insect
• Cherokee: ᏩᏚᎵᏏ (wadulisi) — insect
• Cheyenne: háhnoma — insect
• Chichewa: njuchi — insect
• Chinese Cantonese: 蜜蜂 (mat6 fung1) — insect
• Chinese: мифыр (mifɨr) — insect
• Chinese: фыр (fɨr) — insect
• Chinese: мифынзы (mifɨnzɨ) — insect
• Eastern Min Chinese: 蜜蜂 (mĭk-pŭng) — insect
• Gan Chinese: 蜜蜂 ('mit6 fung1) — insect
• Hakka Chinese: 蜂仔 (phûng-é) — insect
• Hakka Chinese: 糖蜂仔 (thòng-phûng-é / thòng-fûng-é) — insect
• Chinese: 蜂 (phang) — insect
• Jin Chinese: 蜜蜂 — insect
• Chinese Mandarin: 蜜蜂 (mìfēng) — insect
• Chinese Mandarin: 蠟蜂 /蜡蜂 (làfēng) — insect
• Northern Min Chinese: 糖蜂 (tô̤ng-póng) — insect
• Wu Chinese: 蜜蜂 — insect
• Xiang Chinese: 蜜蜂子 (mi6 hong1 zr) — insect
• Chinook Jargon: anthiyeɬ — insect
• Choctaw: foi — insect
• Chuvash: пыл хурчӗ (pyl h̬urč̬ĕ) — insect
• East Circassian: бжьэ (bźɛ) — insect
• West Circassian: бжьэ (bźɛ) — insect
• Maore Comorian: nyoshi — insect
• Ndzwani Comorian: nyoshi class 9/10 — insect
• Ngazidja Comorian: nyoshi — insect
• Cornish: gwenen — insect
• Cornish: gwenenen — insect
• Corsican: apa — insect
• Corsican: aba — insect
• Cree: ᐋᒨ (aamoo) — insect
• Cree: aamoo — insect
• Plains-Cree: ᐊᒧ (amo) — insect
• Crimean Tatar: balqurt — insect
• Crimean Tatar: arı — insect
• Czech: včela — insect
• Dalmatian: juopa — insect
• Dalmatian: juop — insect
• Danish: bi — insect
• Darkinjung: nyittik — insect
• Dorze: ma — insect
• Drung: kua — insect
• Duala: ndômbi — insect
• Central Dusun: pomosuon — insect
• Dutch: bij — insect
• Dutch: honingbij — insect
• Dutch: imme — insect
• Egyptian: bit-t:Z1 (bjt) — insect
• Erzya: мекш (mekš) — insect
• Esperanto: abelo — insect
• Estonian: mesilane — insect
• Evenki: ётыла (jotila) — insect
• Extremaduran: abehita — insect
• Extremaduran: ovispa — insect
• Extremaduran: obispa — insect
• Faroese: býfluga — insect
• Fiji Hindi: madhmakkhi — insect
• Finnish: mehiläinen — insect
• Franco-Provençal: avilye — insect
• French: abeille — insect
• French: mouche à miel — insect
• Gallo: avètt — insect
• Old French: ef — insect
• Saterland Frisian: Ieme — insect
• West-Frisian: bij — insect
• Friulian: âf — insect
• Friulian: âv — insect
• Galician: abella — insect
• Gallurese: abba — insect
• Georgian: ფუტკარი (puṭḳari) — insect
• German: Biene — insect
• German: Imme — insect
• German: Beivogl (Styrian) — insect
• German: Biine — insect
• German: Bii — insect
• Bavarian German: Imp — insect
• Central Franconian: Bien — insect
• Swabian: Biele — insect
• Gooniyandi: wida — insect
• Greek: μέλισσα (mélissa) — insect
• Ancient Greek: μέλισσα (mélissa) — insect
• Ancient Greek: μέλιττα (mélitta) — insect
• Greenlandic: igutsak — insect
• Mbya Guarani: eiru — insect
• Paraguayan Guarani: eiru — insect
• Paraguayan Guarani: eira rúa — insect
• Gujarati: મધમાખી (madhmākhī) — insect
• Haitian Creole: myèl — insect
• Hausa: zuma — insect
• Hawaiian: nalo — insect
• Hawaiian: nalo meli — insect
• Hebrew: דְּבוֹרָה (dvorá) — insect
• Herero: onyuitkhi — insect
• Hiligaynon: putyokan — insect
• Hindi: मधुमक्खी (madhumakkhī) — insect
• White Hmong: muv — insect
• Hopi: momo — insect
• Hungarian: méh — insect
• Icelandic: býfluga — insect
• Icelandic: bý — insect
• Ido: abelo — insect
• Igbo: anwụ — insect
• Ilocano: uyokan — insect
• Inabaknon: buwani — insect
• Indonesian: lebah — insect
• Indonesian: tawon — insect
• Ingrian: mehiläin — insect
• Ingush: накхармоз (naqarmoz) — insect
• Interlingua: ape — insect
• Interlingua: apicula — insect
• Inuktitut: ᒥᓗᒋᐊᖅ (milociaq) — insect
• Irish: beach — insect
• Old Irish: bech — insect
• Italian: ape — insect
• Italian: pecchia — insect
• Itelmen: kzumx — insect
• Japanese: 蜂 (hachi) — insect
• Japanese: 花蜂 (hanabachi) — insect
• Javanese: tawon — insect
• Javanese: ꦠꦮꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (tawon) — insect
• Old Javanese: tawwan — insect
• Jeju: 벌 (beol) — insect
• Jingpho: lagat — insect
• Kabyle: tizizwit — insect
• Kalmyk: зөг (zög) — insect
• Kamba: nzũkĩ — insect
• Kambaata: disha — insect
• Kanakanabu: anu — insect
• Kankanaey: yukan — insect
• Kannada: ದುಂಬಿ (dumbi) — insect
• Kaonde: injuki — insect
• Karelian: meheläini — insect
• Kashmiri: تُلٕر (tulụr) — insect
• Kashubian: pszczoła — insect
• Kaska: tsʼedāsnāne — insect
• Kaurna: gadlabarti — insect
• Kazakh: ара (ara) — insect
• Khmer: ឃ្មុំ (khmum) — insect
• Khvarshi: пар (par) — insect
• Kikuyu: njũkĩ — insect
• Kimaragang: kawad — insect
• Kimbundu: nhoki — insect
• Kituba: nyósi — insect
• Kongo: nyosi — insect
• Korean: 벌 (beol) — insect
• Korean: 밀봉 (milbong) — insect
• Kumyk: балжибин (baljibin) — insect
• Central Kurdish: ھەنگ (heng) — insect
• Northern Kurdish: hing — insect
• Kyrgyz: аары (aarı) — insect
• Kyrgyz: бал аарысы (bal aarısı) — insect
• Kyrgyz: эмгекчил адам (emgekcil adam) — insect
• Kyrgyz: фантазия (fantaziya) — insect
• Kyrgyz: причуда (pricuda) — insect
• Kyrgyz: сайран (sayran) — insect
• Kyrgyz: сейил (seyil) — insect
• Ladin: ê — insect
• Ladino: bízba — insect
• Ladino: bézba — insect
• Lao: ເຜິ້ງ (phœng) — insect
• Lao: ພະມະໂຣ (pha ma rō) — insect
• Lao: ພູມມະຣະ (phūm ma ra) — insect
• Lao: ພະມະຣະ (pha ma ra) — insect
• Latgalian: bite — insect
• Latin: apis — insect
• Latvian: bite — insect
• Laz: ბუტკუჯი (buťǩuci) — insect
• Limburgish: bie — insect
• Lingala: nzói — insect
• Linngithigh: malay — insect
• Lisu: ꓐꓬꓽ (bjɑ̀) — insect
• Lithuanian: bitė — insect
• Lombard: avi — insect
• Low German: Imm — insect
• Lozi: muka — insect
• Lü: ᦕᦹᧂᧉ (ṗhueng2) — insect
• Luba-Kasai: lunyuki — insect
• Luba-Katanga: nnyikì — insect
• Luba-Katanga: lunyuki — insect
• Luganda: enjuki — insect
• Luhya: inzushi — insect
• Luo: kich — insect
• Luxembourgish: Bei — insect
• Maasai: ol-otórokî — insect
• Maasai: ol-otóròì — insect
• Macedonian: пчела (pčela) — insect
• Malagasy: tantely — insect
• Malay: lebah — insect
• Malay: tawon — insect
• Brunei Malay: penyangat — insect
• Malayalam: ഇണ്ട (iṇṭa) — insect
• Malayalam: ഘണ്ഡം (ghaṇḍaṁ) — insect
• Malayalam: ഭസനം (bhasanaṁ) — insect
• Maltese: naħla — insect
• Manchu: ᡥᡳᠪᠰᡠ ᡝᠵᡝᠨ (hibsu ejen) — insect
• Mandinka: kumburuŋo — insect
• Manx: shellan — insect
• Māori: ngaro huruhuru — insect
• Māori: pī — insect
• Mapudungun: diwmeñ — insect
• Mapudungun: kormeña — insect
• Marathi: मधमाशी (madhmāśī) — insect
• Marathi: मधुकर (madhukar) — insect
• Marshallese: pi — insect
• Massachusett: ashkeaumooussog — insect
• Mauritian Creole: abey — insect
• Mazanderani: کنگلی (kangeli) — insect
• Megleno-Romanian: albină — insect
• Central Melanau: anyi — insect
• Middle English: be — insect
• Mi'kmaq: amu — insect
• Mingrelian: სკა (sḳa) — insect
• Mirandese: abeilha — insect
• Mizo: khuai — insect
• Mizo: khawivah — insect
• Moksha: меш (meš) — insect
• Mon: သာဲ (sāy) — insect
• Mongolian: зөгий (zögii) — insect
• Mongolian: ᠵᠥᠭᠡᠢ (ǰögei) — insect
• Mpade: mam — insect
• Murrinh-Patha: pangkima — insect
• Tagal Murut: maningot — insect
• Mwani: nyuki — insect
• Nahuatl: xicohtli — insect
• Nanticoke: aa-moak — insect
• Navajo: tsísʼná — insect
• Navajo: tłʼéʼííłnííʼ — insect
• Neapolitan: apa — insect
• Nepali: मौरी (maurī) — insect
• Norman: moûque à myi — insect
• Norman: bourdon à myi — insect
• Northern Sotho: nôse — insect
• Norwegian: bie — insect
• Nuosu: ꐚ (jji) — insect
• Nyamwezi: nzuki — insect
• Occitan: abelha — insect
• Odia: ମହୁମାଛି (mahumāchi) — insect
• Ojibwe: ᐋᒨ — insect
• Ojibwe: aamoo — insect
• Church Slavic: бьчела (bĭčela) — insect
• Church Slavic: бъчела (bŭčela) — insect
• Church Slavic: ⰱⱐⱍⰵⰾⰰ (bĭčela) — insect
• Church Slavic: ⰱⱏⱍⰵⰾⰰ (bŭčela) — insect
• Old East Slavic: бьчела (bĭčela) — insect
• Old English: bēo — insect
• Old Galician-Portuguese: abella — insect
• Old Norse: bý — insect
• Oromo: kaanniissa — insect
• Ossetian: мыдыбындз (mydybynʒ) — insect
• Palauan: chelakngikl — insect
• Palauan: chelatngikl — insect
• Pali: bhamara — insect
• Pannonian Rusyn: пчола (pčola) — insect
• Papiamentu: bei — insect
• Pashto: مچئِي (mača'i) — insect
• Pashto: بلۍ مچۍ (balǝ́ymǝčǝ́y) — insect
• Pashto: غلاوزه (ǧlāwáza) — insect
• Pennsylvania German: Iem — insect
• Iranian Persian: زَنْبور (zanbur) — insect
• Iranian Persian: زَنْبورِ عَسَل (zanbur-e asal) — insect
• Iranian Persian: مُنْج (monj) — insect
• Iranian Persian: گَبْت (gabt) — insect
• Iranian Persian: بُوْز (bowz) — insect
• Iranian Persian: کَلیز (kaliz) — insect
• Iranian Persian: موسِه (muse) — insect
• Iranian Persian: اَنْگ (ang) — insect
• Plautdietsch: Bie — insect
• Polabian: čelă — insect
• Polish: pszczoła — insect
• Portuguese: abelha — insect
• Punjabi: ਮਧੁ ਮਕ੍ਖੀ (madhu makkhī) — insect
• Quechua: mapa mama — insect
• Quechua: abiha — insect
• Rapa Nui: manu meri — insect
• Réunion Creole French: zabèy — insect
• Romagnol: eva — insect
• Romani: berorî — insect
• Caló: jernimachí — insect
• Romanian: albină — insect
• Romansh: avieul — insect
• Romansh: aviul — insect
• Romansh: avioul — insect
• Romansh: aviöl — insect
• Russian: пчела́ (pčelá) — insect
• Rwanda-Rundi: uruyuki class 11/10 — insect
• Rwanda-Rundi: uru-yuki — insect
• Northern Sami: mieđašeatni — insect
• Samoan: lago-meli — insect
• Sango: inyusi — insect
• Sango: nzói — insect
• Sanskrit: भ्रमर (bhramara) — insect
• Sanskrit: मधुलिह् (madhulih) — insect
• Sardinian: àbe — insect
• Campidanese Sardinian: abi — insect
• Sardinian: abe — insect
• Sassarese: aba — insect
• Scottish Gaelic: seillean — insect
• Serbo-Croatian: пчѐла — insect
• Serbo-Croatian: pčèla — insect
• Shan: ၽိုင်ႈ (phūeng) — insect
• Shona: nyuchi — insect
• Sicilian: lapuni — insect
• Sicilian: lapa — insect
• Sidamo: dida — insect
• Sindhi: مک (maki) — insect
• Sinhalese: මීමැස්සා (mīmæssā) — insect
• Slovak: včela — insect
• Slovene: čebela — insect
• Somali: shinni — insect
• Lower Sorbian: pcołka — insect
• Upper Sorbian: pčoła — insect
• Sotho: notshi — insect
• Spanish: abeja — insect
• Sranan Tongo: oni — insect
• Sudovian: bite — insect
• Sundanese: nyiruan — insect
• Svan: ღუ̂ებ (ɣûeb) — insect
• Svan: ბუზუ̄ლ (buzūl) — insect
• Svan: ლა̈ღუ̂ბა̈ ბუზუ̄ლ (läɣûbä buzūl) — insect
• Swahili: nyuki — insect
• Swedish: bi — insect
• Tagalog: bubuyog — insect
• Tagalog: pukyot — insect
• Tajik: занбӯр (zanbür) — insect
• Tajik: ору (oru) — insect
• Tamil: தேனீ (tēṉī) — insect
• Tashelhit: tazzwit — insect
• Tatar: умырта корты (umırta qortı) — insect
• Tatar: бал корты (bal qortı) — insect
• Telugu: తేనెటీగ (tēneṭīga) — insect
• Tetum: bani — insect
• Thai: ผึ้ง (pʉ̂ng) — insect
• Thai: ภมร (pá-mɔɔn) — insect
• Thai: ภุมรี (pum-má-rii) — insect
• Tibetan: སྦྲང་རྩི་མྱོང (sbrang rtsi myong) — insect
• Tibetan: རྡུལ་ཉལ (rdul nyal) — insect
• Tibetan: བུང་བ — insect
• Tibetan: སྦྲང་མ (sbrang ma) — insect
• Tigrinya: ንህቢ (nəhbi) — insect
• Tigrinya: ንሕቢ (nəḥbi) — insect
• Tocharian B: krokśe — insect
• Tocharian B: kronkśe — insect
• Tok Pisin: bi — insect
• Tok Pisin: binen — insect
• Tooro: orujoki class 11 — insect
• Tswana: notshi — insect
• Tupinambá: eíra — insect
• Turkish: arı — insect
• Ottoman Turkish: آری (arı) — insect
• Ottoman Turkish: زنبور (zenbur) — insect
• Turkmen: ary — insect
• Tuvan: ары (arı) — insect
• Uab Meto: oni — insect
• Uab Meto: onê — insect
• Udmurt: муш (muš) — insect
• Ukrainian: бджола́ (bdžolá) — insect
• Umbundu: nyihi — insect
• Unami: amëwe — insect
• Urdu: شَہْد کی مَکھّی (śahd kī makhhī) — insect
• Urdu: مَدھ مَکھّی (madh makhhī) — insect
• Uyghur: ھەرە (here) — insect
• Uzbek: ari — insect
• Uzbek: ари (ari) — insect
• Venda: notshi class 9/10 — insect
• Venetan: ava — insect
• Vietnamese: ong — insect
• Vilamovian: byn — insect
• Volapük: bien — insect
• Votic: čimolain — insect
• Walloon: moxhe al låme — insect
• Walloon: moxhe — insect
• Walloon: moxhe di tchetoere — insect
• Walloon: moxhe d' apî — insect
• Wastek: dhom — insect
• Welsh: gwenynen — insect
• Wiradjuri: ngaraang — insect
• Woiwurrung: manerlong — insect
• Wolaytta: mattaa — insect
• Wolof: yamb wi — insect
• Xhosa: inyosi — insect
• Yaghnobi: замбур (zambur) — insect
• Yakut: ыҥырыа (ïŋïrïa) — insect
• Yao (Africa): lujuci — insect
• Yiddish: בין (bin) — insect
• Yoruba: oyin — insect
• Yoruba: kòkòrò oyin — insect
• Yucatec Maya: kaab — insect
• Yugambal: nyugay — insect
• Yup'ik: mertaq — insect
• Isthmus Zapotec: bizu — insect
• Zazaki: hıng (diq) — insect
• Zhuang: rwi — insect
• Zulu: inyosi — insect
• Albanian: mbledhje — contest
• Finnish: kisa — contest
• Finnish: kilpailu — contest
• German: Wettbewerb — contest
• Hungarian: verseny — contest
• Albanian: mbledh — gathering
• Belarusian: талака́ (talaká) — gathering
• Bulgarian: тлака (tlaka) — gathering
• Estonian: talgud — gathering
• Finnish: piiri — gathering
• Finnish: seura — gathering
• Finnish: talkoot — gathering
• Greek: σύναξη (sýnaxi) — gathering
• Greek: συναναστροφή (synanastrofí) — gathering
• Hungarian: kaláka — gathering
• Ingrian: talkoot — gathering
• Māori: ohu — gathering
• Norwegian Bokmål: dugnad — gathering
• Polish: spotkanie — gathering
• Polish: tłoka — gathering
• Russian: толока (toloka) — gathering
• Serbo-Croatian: тла̏ка — gathering
• Serbo-Croatian: tlȁka — gathering
• Slovene: tláka — gathering
• Ukrainian: толока (toloka) — gathering
• Ukrainian: клака (klaka) — gathering
• Arabic: بِي (bī) — name of the letter B, b
• Asturian: be — name of the letter B, b
• Bengali: বি (bi) — name of the letter B, b
• Bulgarian: бе (be) — name of the letter B, b
• Burmese: ဘီ (bhi) — name of the letter B, b
• Catalan: be — name of the letter B, b
• Chinese Cantonese: boy (boi1) — name of the letter B, b
• Chinese Mandarin: B (bì) — name of the letter B, b
• Esperanto: bo — name of the letter B, b
• Faroese: be — name of the letter B, b
• Finnish: bee — name of the letter B, b
• French: bé — name of the letter B, b
• Galician: be — name of the letter B, b
• Greek: μπι (bi) — name of the letter B, b
• Hawaiian: bē — name of the letter B, b
• Hindi: बी (bī) — name of the letter B, b
• Icelandic: bé — name of the letter B, b
• Ido: be — name of the letter B, b
• Irish: bé — name of the letter B, b
• Irish: beith — name of the letter B, b
• Japanese: ビー (bī) — name of the letter B, b
• Korean: 비 — name of the letter B, b
• Latin: bē — name of the letter B, b
• Malay: bi — name of the letter B, b
• Marathi: बी (bī) — name of the letter B, b
• Occitan: be — name of the letter B, b
• Persian: ب (be) — name of the letter B, b
• Persian: بی (english) — name of the letter B, b
• Polish: be — name of the letter B, b
• Portuguese: bê — name of the letter B, b
• Russian: би (bi) — name of the letter B, b
• Russian: бэ (bɛ) — name of the letter B, b
• Spanish: be — name of the letter B, b
• Spanish: be alta — name of the letter B, b
• Spanish: be grande — name of the letter B, b
• Spanish: be larga — name of the letter B, b
• Spanish: be labial — name of the letter B, b
• Swedish: be — name of the letter B, b
• Tamil: பீ (pī) — name of the letter B, b
• Thai: บี (bee) — name of the letter B, b
• Turkish: be — name of the letter B, b
• Vietnamese: bê — name of the letter B, b
• Vietnamese: bờ — name of the letter B, b
• Welsh: bi — name of the letter B, b