# bead
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą.
Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biːd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːd
* Homophone: Bede

### Noun

bead (plural beads)
* (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. [from 9thc.]
** 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 115:That he must believe in the Pope;—go to Mass;—cross himself;—tell his beads;—be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven.
* Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14thc.]
    Synonym: prayer bead
    Holonym: prayer beads
* A small, round object.
** A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes. [from 15thc.]
** Various small, round solid objects.
*** 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
** A small drop of water or other liquid. [from 16thc.]
    beads of sweat
** A bubble, in spirits.
** A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
    She drew a bead on the target and fired.
*** 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
*** (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
    We now have a bead on the main technical issues for the project
* A ridge, band, or molding.
** A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead. [from 20thc.]
** (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
    Synonym: beading
* (physical chemistry, dated) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
    the borax bead;  the iron bead, etc.

#### Hyponyms

* (small, round, pierced object): hair pipe

#### Derived terms

* adder bead
* anal beads
* angle bead
* Baily's beads
* beadboard
* bead breaker
* beaded lacewing
* beaded lizard
* beader
* beadery
* bead fern
* beadful
* beadless
* beadlet
* bead lightning
* beadlike
* bead lily
* beadmaker
* beadmaking
* bead maze
* bead proof
* bead-rattler
* beadroll
* bead seat
* beadsman
* bead-tree
* bead tree
* beadwork
* beady
* bedeman
* bid beads
* borax bead test
* captive bead ring
* casing bead
* draw a bead on
* drop one's beads
* dzi bead
* fairy-beads
* Hail Mary bead
* immunobead
* iodobead
* jet bead
* jetbead
* jumbie bead
* love-bead
* love bead
* lovebead
* macrobead
* microbead
* multibead
* nanobead
* parting bead
* polybead
* pony bead
* prayer bead
* prayer beads
* read someone's beads
* seed bead
* St. Cuthbert's beads
* sticky bead argument
* stop bead
* string of beads
* take a bead on
* tyre bead
* water bead
* worry beads

#### Translations
### Verb

bead (third-person singular simple present beads, present participle beading, simple past and past participle beaded)
* (intransitive) To form into a bead.
    The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
* (transitive) To apply beads to.
    She spent the morning beading the gown.
* (transitive) To form into a bead.
    He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
* (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
** 1941, Emily Carr, “Greenville”, in Klee Wyck:Only the hum of the miserable creatures stirred the heavy murk that beaded our foreheads with sweat as we pushed our way through it.

### Anagrams

* Abed, abed, adeb, bade, baed

## Hungarian
### Etymology

be- +‎ ad

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɛɒd]
* Hyphenation: be‧ad
* Rhymes: -ɒd

### Verb

bead
* (transitive) to hand in
    beadja a felmondását ― to hand in one's notice
* (transitive) to give (medicine to someone)
* (transitive) to submit, to present (a request)
* (transitive) to file (a petition)

#### Derived terms

* beadás
* beadvány
* beadja a derekát
* beadja a kulcsot

### Further reading

* bead in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* bead in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʲɛd̪ˠ/

### Verb

bead
* first-person singular future of bí
    Bead anseo nuair a thiocfaidh tú ar ais.I will be here when you come back.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 74

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bæːɑ̯d/

### Verb

bēad
* first/third-person singular preterite indicative of bēodan