name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bey
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /beɪ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Australia: /bæɪ/
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General-American: /beɪ/
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rhymes with -eɪ
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homophone: bay
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homophone: bae (toe–tow merger)
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CMU ARPABET: B EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Beyoncé.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman) dominions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
In various other places, a prince or nobleman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: governor
noun
Meaning 6
(formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he introduced me to Ahmet Bey
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: man, adult male
History
Etymology
* As a north German and Dutch surname, variant of Beye, Baye, vowel variants of the Danish surname Boye. * Also as a German surname, Germanized from Lower Sorbian baj (“storyteller”), from Proto-Slavic *bajь, related to *bajati (“to tell”). Compare Bay. * As a French surname, from several placenames in France, from a regional variant of bief (“mill-race”). * As an Islamic surname (generally Algeria), from Turkish bey (see Beg). See also Pasha, Agha.
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey, “gentleman, chief”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: bej — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Southern Altai: бий (biy) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Arabic: بِيه (bīh) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Arabic: بِيك (bīk) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Arabic: بِك (bik) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Arabic: بِك (bek) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Armenian: բեյ (bey) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Azerbaijani: bəy — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Bashkir: бей (bey) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Bengali: বেগ (beg) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Bulgarian: бей (bej) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Catalan: bei — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Chinese Mandarin: 貝伊 /贝伊 (bèiyī) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Chinese Mandarin: 巴依 (bāyī) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Finnish: bey — governor of a Turkish dominion
- French: bey — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Georgian: ბაი (bai) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- German: Bey — governor of a Turkish dominion
- German: Bei — governor of a Turkish dominion
- German: Beg — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Greek: μπέης (béis) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Greek: βέης (véis) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Hindi: बेग (beg) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Hungarian: bég — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Hungarian: bej — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Indonesian: bey — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Japanese: ベグ (begu) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Kazakh: би (bi) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Kazakh: бек (bek) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Central Kurdish: بەگ (beg) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Kyrgyz: бек (bek) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Macedonian: бег (beg) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Nogai: бий (biy) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Pannonian Rusyn: беґ (beg) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Persian: بگ (beg) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Portuguese: bei — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Russian: бей (bej) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Russian: бек (bek) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Serbo-Croatian: бег — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Serbo-Croatian: beg — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Spanish: bey — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Tatar: бәк (bäk) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Turkish: bey — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Ottoman Turkish: بگ (bég) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Tuvan: бег (beg) — governor of a Turkish dominion
- Uzbek: bek — governor of a Turkish dominion