# bebe
## Casiguran Dumagat Agta
### Noun

bebe
* woman

### References

* A Dumagat (Casiguran) - English Dictionary, Pacific Linguistics: Series C, No. 28 (as bébe)
* ABVD (as bɨ'beq)
* Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (as bə-be)

## Fijian
### Noun

bebe
* butterfly

## Galician
### Verb

bebe
* inflection of beber:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

bebe
* inflection of beben:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French bébé (“baby”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beˈbe/

### Noun

bebe
* baby

## Interlingua
### Noun

bebe
* baby

#### Synonyms

* baby

## Kapampangan
### Alternative forms

* bebai (obsolete)

### Etymology

From earlier bebai, from Proto-Philippine *baybay. Compare Tagalog baybay.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbebe/ [ˈbɛː.bɛː]
* Hyphenation: be‧be

### Noun

bébé
* seashore
* riverbank
* mountainside

#### Derived terms

* bebebe
* binebayan
* binebe
* mabebe
* Macabebe
* makabebe
* minebe

## Makasar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbebe/, [ˈɓɛ.bɛ]
* Hyphenation: be‧be

### Noun

bebe (Lontara spelling ᨅᨙᨅᨙ)
* drool

#### Synonyms

* piʼru (saliva)
* iloroʼ (moisture in the mouth)

#### Affixations

* aʼbebe
* bebèi

### Further reading

* A. A. Cense (2024) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎, Brill, →DOI

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Portuguese beber and Spanish beber and Kabuverdianu bebi.

### Verb

bebe
* to drink

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɛ.bi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɛ.bi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɛ.be/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbɛ.bɨ/ [ˈbɛ.βɨ]

### Verb

bebe
* inflection of beber:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bébé and also influenced by English baby.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbe.be/, /beˈbe/

### Noun

bebe m (uncountable)
* baby, infant
    Synonyms: bebeluș, copilaș

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbebe/ [ˈbe.β̞e]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -ebe
* Syllabification: be‧be

### Etymology 1

Variant of bebé.

#### Noun

bebe m (plural bebes, feminine beba, feminine plural bebas)
* (Peru) baby
    Synonyms: bebé, wawa

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

bebe
* inflection of beber:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “bebe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

Probably from Fon gbɛ̀gbɛ́-tín (“Pterocarpus tree”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbebe/, [ˈbɪ̞bɪ̞], [ˈbe̝be̝]

### Noun

bebe
* any tree of the genus Pterocarpus

#### Derived terms

* basrabebe
* bergibebe
* dyukabebe
* heigronbebe
* manbebe
* watrabebe

### References

* ↑ Norval Smith (2009) “A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 468.

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbebe/ [ˈbɛː.bɛ]
* Rhymes: -ebe
* Syllabification: be‧be

### Noun

bebe (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ) (colloquial)
* Alternative form of beybi

#### Derived terms

* bbq

## Ternate
### Etymology

From Indonesian bebek.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbe.be]

### Noun

bebe
* a duck

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tiruray
### Noun

bebe
* grandchild

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /be.bɛ/, [be̞ˈbɛ]

### Noun

bebe (definite accusative bebeyi, plural bebeler)
* (dialectal) child, kid, baby
* (dialectal, derogatory) Brat

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
bebe
bebeler
definite accusative
bebeyi
bebeleri
dative
bebeye
bebelere
locative
bebede
bebelerde
ablative
bebeden
bebelerden
genitive
bebenin
bebelerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
bebem
bebelerim
2nd singular
beben
bebelerin
3rd singular
bebesi
bebeleri
1st plural
bebemiz
bebelerimiz
2nd plural
bebeniz
bebeleriniz
3rd plural
bebeleri
bebeleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
bebemi
bebelerimi
2nd singular
bebeni
bebelerini
3rd singular
bebesini
bebelerini
1st plural
bebemizi
bebelerimizi
2nd plural
bebenizi
bebelerinizi
3rd plural
bebelerini
bebelerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
bebeme
bebelerime
2nd singular
bebene
bebelerine
3rd singular
bebesine
bebelerine
1st plural
bebemize
bebelerimize
2nd plural
bebenize
bebelerinize
3rd plural
bebelerine
bebelerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
bebemde
bebelerimde
2nd singular
bebende
bebelerinde
3rd singular
bebesinde
bebelerinde
1st plural
bebemizde
bebelerimizde
2nd plural
bebenizde
bebelerinizde
3rd plural
bebelerinde
bebelerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
bebemden
bebelerimden
2nd singular
bebenden
bebelerinden
3rd singular
bebesinden
bebelerinden
1st plural
bebemizden
bebelerimizden
2nd plural
bebenizden
bebelerinizden
3rd plural
bebelerinden
bebelerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
bebemin
bebelerimin
2nd singular
bebenin
bebelerinin
3rd singular
bebesinin
bebelerinin
1st plural
bebemizin
bebelerimizin
2nd plural
bebenizin
bebelerinizin
3rd plural
bebelerinin
bebelerinin :

## West Makian
### Etymology

Reduplication of be (“water”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /be.ˈbe/

### Verb

bebe
* (transitive, informal) to drink
    Synonym: joube (polite)

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as bebé)