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Bee Definition

bee

See also Bee, bée, and béé

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Etymology 1

A bee

Old English bēo, from Proto-Germanic *bīōn (compare Dutch bij, Upper German Beie, Swedish bi), from Proto-Indo-European *bʱi- (compare Old Irish bech (“bee”), Welsh bydaf (“beehive”), Latin fūcus (“drone”), Latvian bite (“bee”), Russian пчела (pčelá, “bee”)).

Noun

bee (bees or been (dialectal))

  1. A flying insect, of the order Hymenoptera, group Apiformes.
Derived terms
terms derived from bee (noun)
Translations
insect
  • Afrikaans: by (af)
  • Albanian: bletë (sq) f.
  • Aleut: aanasnaadax
  • Amharic: ንብ (am) (nəbə)
  • Amuzgo: kích'i
  • Arabic: نحلة (ar) (náħla)
    Egyptian Arabic: نحلة (naħla) f.
    Moroccan Arabic: نحلة f.
  • Aragonese: abella f.
  • Armenian: մեղու (hy) (meġu)
  • Assamese: মধুকৰ (as)
  • Azeri: arı (az)
  • Balinese: please add this translation if you can
  • Bashkir: бал ҡорто (bal qorto)
  • Basque: erle (eu)
  • Belarusian: пчала (be) (pčalá) f.
  • Bengali: মৌমাছি (bn) (maumachi)
  • Breton: gwenan (collective), gwenanenn f.
  • Buginese: please add this translation if you can
  • Bulgarian: пчела (bg) (pčelá) f.
  • Burmese: ပျား (my) (pya:)
  • Buryat: зүгы
  • Campidanese Sardinian: abi
  • Catalan: abella (ca) f.
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: tazzwit f. (pl tizzwa) | tizizwit, tizizut f. (pl tizizwa)
  • Chamicuro: kasenujsi
  • Chechen: накхармоза
  • Cherokee: ᏩᏚᎵᏏ (wadulisi)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 蜜蜂 (zh) (mìfēng)
  • Comorian: nyoshi
  • Corsican: apa, aba
  • Cree: ᐋᒨ (aamoo)
  • Crimean Tatar: balqurt
  • Czech: včela (cs) f.
  • Danish: bi (da) c.
  • Darkinjung: nyittik
  • Dutch: bij (nl) f., honingbij (nl) f.
  • Egyptian: 𓆤𓏏𓏤 (bjt)
  • Erzya: мекш (mekš)
  • Esperanto: abelo (eo)
  • Estonian: mesilane (et)
  • Finnish: mehiläinen (fi)
  • French: abeille (fr) f.
    Old French: ef m.
  • Friulian: âv
  • Georgian: ფუტკარი (ka) (p‘utkari), ದುಂಬಿ (ka)
  • German: Biene (de) f., (poetic) Imme (de) f.
    Kölsch: Bien f.
  • Greek:
    Ancient: μέλισσα f., μέλιττα f.
    Modern: μέλισσα (el) f. (mélissa)
  • Greenlandic: igutsak (kl)
  • Guaraní: eiru, eira rúa
  • Gujarati: મધમાખી (gu)
  • Haitian Creole: myèl
  • Hausa: zuma (ha)
  • Hebrew: דבורה (he) (dvorá) f., דְּבוֹרָה (he) (dvorá) f.
  • Hiligaynon: putyokan
  • Hindi: मधुमक्खी (hi) (madhumakkhī) f.
  • Hopi: momo
  • Hungarian: méh (hu)
  • Icelandic: býfluga (is) f.
  • Indonesian: lebah (id), tawon (id)
  • Interlingua: ape, apicula
  • Inuktitut: ᒥᓗᒋᐊᖅ (iu) (milugiaq)
  • Irish: beach (ga) f.
  • Isthmus Zapotec: bizu
  • Italian: ape (it) f.
  • Itelmen: kzumx
  • Japanese: 蜂 (ja) (はち, hachi), 蜜蜂 (ja) (みつばち, mitsubachi)
  • Jèrriais: moûque à myi f., bourdon à myi m.
  • Kannada: ದುಂಬಿ (kn)
  • Kazakh: ара (kk) (ara)
  • Khmer: ឃ្មុំ (km) (k’mum)
  • Korean: 벌 (ko) (beol)
  • Kurdish: please add this translation if you can
  • Ladin: ê
  • Ladino: bízba f., bézba f.
  • Lao: ເຜິ້ງ (lo) (phəng)
  • Latgalian: bite f.
  • Latin: apis (la) f.
  • Latvian: bite (lv) f.
  • Limburgish: bie (li) f.
  • Lithuanian: bitė (lt) f.
  • Low German: Imm (nds) f.
  • Lower Sorbian: pcołka f.
  • Luhya: please add this translation if you can
  • Luo: kich
  • Luxembourgish: Bei (lb) f.
  • Maasai: ol-otórokî, ol-otóròì
  • Macedonian: пчела (mk) (pčélа) f.
  • Malay: lebah (ms)
  • Malayalam: ഇണ്ട (ml), ഘണ്ഡം (ml), ഭസനം (ml)
  • Maltese: naħla (mt) f.
  • Mandinka: kumburuŋo
  • Manx: shellan (gv) m.
  • Mapudungun: diwmeñ, kormeña
  • Marathi: मधमाशी (mr), मधुकर (mr)
  • Mizo: khuai
  • Mon: သဲာ (sai)
  • Mongolian: зөгий (mn) (zögii)
  • Nahuatl: xicohtli (nah)
  • Navajo: tsísʼná
  • Nepali: मौरी (ne) (mauri)
  • Norwegian: bie (no) m. and f.
  • Novial: abele
  • Occitan: abiho (oc) f.
  • Ojibwe: ᐋᒨ (aamoo)
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    Cyrillic: бьчєла (bĭčela) f., бъчєла (bŭčela)
    Glagolitic: ⰁⰠⰝⰅⰎⰀ (bĭčela) f., ⰁⰟⰝⰅⰎⰀ (bŭčela)
  • Old English: bēo (ang) f.
  • Old Irish: bech m. and f.
  • Oriya: please add this translation if you can
  • Pali: bhamara (pi)
  • Pashto: مچئِي (ps) (macha'i)
  • Persian: زنبور عسل (fa) (zanbure asal), مگس انگبین (fa) (magasangabin)
  • Polabian: čelă f.
  • Polish: pszczoła (pl) f.
  • Portuguese: abelha (pt) f.
  • Punjabi: ਮਧੁ ਮਕ੍ਖੀ
  • Quechua: mapa mama (qu)
  • Romanian: albină (ro) f.
  • Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) avieul (rm) m., (Sursilvan) aviul (rm) m., (Surmiran) avioul (rm) m., (Puter, Vallader) aviöl (rm) m.
  • Russian: пчела (ru) (pčelá) f.
  • Samoan: lago-meli (sm)
  • Sanskrit: भ्रमर (sa) (bhramara) m., मधुलिह् (sa) (madhulih) m.
  • Saterland Frisian: Ieme f.
  • Scottish Gaelic: seillean m.
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: пчѐла (sh) f.
    Roman: pčèla (sh) f.
  • Shan: ၽိုင်ႈ (phyng3)
  • Sichuan Yi: ꐚ (jji)
  • Sicilian: lapuni (scn) m.
  • Sindhi: مک (sd) (maki)
  • Sinhalese: මීමැස්‍සා (si) (mīmæssā)
  • Slovak: včela (sk) f.
  • Slovene: čebela (sl) f.
  • Somali: shinni (so)
  • Sotho: notshi (st)
  • Southern Altai: адару
  • Spanish: abeja (es) f.
  • Swahili: nyuki (nc 9/10)
  • Swedish: bi (sv) n.
  • Tagalog: bubuyog (tl)
  • Tajik: занбӯр (tg) (zanbūr)
  • Tamil: தேட்குடிச்சி (ta) (tēṭkuṭicci), தேனீ (ta) (tēṉi)
  • Tatar: умырта корты (tt) (umırta kortı)
  • Telugu: తేనెటీగ (te) (tEneTIga)
  • Tetum: bani
  • Thai: ภมร (th) (pámon), ภุมรี (th) (poomree)
  • Tswana: notshi (tn)
  • Tupinambá: eíra
  • Turkish: arı (tr)
  • Turkmen: ary (tk)
  • Tuvan: ары
  • Uab Meto: oni, onê
  • Ukrainian: бджола (uk) (bdžolá) f.
  • Upper Sorbian: pčoła f.
  • Urdu: شہد کی مکھی (ur) (shehed ki makhi)
  • Uzbek: ari (uz), ари (uz)
  • Venetian: ava f.
  • Vietnamese: (con) ong (IPA: /ɔŋm/)
  • Vilamovian: byn
  • Welsh: gwenynen (cy) f., gwenyn (cy) (collective)
  • West Frisian: bij (fy)
  • Wolof: yamb wi (wo)
  • Yiddish: בין (yi) (bin) f.
  • Yoruba: oyin (yo), kòkòrò oyin (yo)
  • Yup'ik: mertaq
  • Zulu: inyosi (zu)
See also

Etymology 2

From Scots bean (“a person, member of a group”), from Middle English been, bene (“neighbourly help, prayer, petition, request”), from Old English bēn (“prayer, request”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“prayer, request”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhā- (“to say, speak”). 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 gathering for a specific purpose, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
    • 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.
Translations
contest
  • Finnish: kisa (fi)
gathering
  • Finnish: piiri (fi)
  • Greek: σύναξη (el) (sýnaxi) f., συναναστροφή (el) (synanastrofí) f.
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  • Malayalam: തേനീച്ച, അളി, ഭ്രമരം, മത്സരത്തിനോ വിനോദത്തിനോ വേണ്ടിയുള്ള യോഗം, കവി, നിരന്തര പരിശ്രമി
  • [[Category:Translations to be checked ()]]: ကနဲ, ကွဲ

Etymology 3

(Northern development of) Old English bēah.

Noun

bee (plural bees)

  1. (obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
      And Kynge Arthure gaff hir a ryche bye of golde; and so she departed.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 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. Archaic 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.’

Etymology 5

Noun

bee (plural bees)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter B/b.
See also
Translations
name of the letter B, b
  • Arabic: بي (ar) (bii) m. (also often used for P, p causing confusion)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)
  • Esperanto: bo (eo)
  • Finnish: bee (fi)
  • Galician: be (gl) m.
  • Hindi: बी (hi) (bī)
  • Japanese: ビー (ja) (bī)
  • Korean: 비 (ko) (bi) (also often used for V, v causing confusion)
  • Lojban: by (jbo)
  • Polish: be (pl) n.
  • Portuguese: bê (pt) m.
  • Russian: би (ru) (bi) n. (English), бэ (ru) (be) n.
  • Spanish: be (es) f.
  • Thai: บี (th) (bee)
  • Turkish: be (tr)
  • Vietnamese: bê (vi), bờ (vi)

Finnish

Pronunciation

Noun

bee

  1. The letter B, b.

Declension

Declension of bee (type maa)
singular plural
nominative bee beet
genitive been beiden beitten
partitive beetä beitä
accusative bee been beet
inessive beessä beissä
elative beestä beistä
illative beehen beihin
adessive beellä beillä
ablative beeltä beiltä
allative beelle beille
essive beenä beinä
translative beeksi beiksi
instructive – bein
abessive beettä beittä
comitative – beineen

Latin

Interjection

bee!

  1. baa (sound of a sheep)

Mandinka

Pronunciation

Noun

bee

  1. (anatomy) vagina

Manx

Noun

bee m.

  1. food
  2. provisions
  3. nourishment
  4. diet

Verb

bee

  1. to be

Navajo

Postposition

bee

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

Synonyms

Old Irish

Verb

bee

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

Tetum

Alternative forms

Noun

bee

  1. water

 

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