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ب / ب / ب / ب • (bāʔ)
- The second letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is بَاء (bāʔ) and it has the sound of English b. It is preceded by أ (ʔ) and followed by ت (t).
ب / ب / ب / ب • (bāʔ)
- The second letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by أ (ʔ) and followed by ج (j).
ب • (b)
- Abbreviation of باب (bāb, “chapter”).
Ultimately Proto-Semitic *bV- (“with, in, at, among”) with likely interrelation with Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“site, location; nest, house”); cognates with Ugaritic 𐎁 (b), Aramaic ב־, Classical Syriac ܒ-, Hebrew בְּ־ (bə-), Ge'ez በ (bä) and Egyptian bw.
بِـ • (bi-)
- denotes an instrument or tool, with, by (a means)
طَرَقْتُ الْمِسْمَارَ بِمِطْرَقَةٍ
- ṭaraqtu l-mismāra bi-miṭraqatin
- I hit the nail with a hammer
رَماهُم بِٱلْحِجَارَةِ
- ramāhum bi-l-ḥijārati
- He pelted them with stones.
- denotes the agent of unaccusative forms
هُوَ يَتَقَوَّى بِهِ
- huwa yataqawwā bihi
- He is strengthened by it
- Coordinate term: (post-Classical) بِوَاسِطَة (biwāsiṭa, denotes the agent of passive forms)
- denotes accompaniment
- Coordinate term: مَعَ (maʕa)
- denotes proximity, with, to, next to, at (touching on, connected with, concerning)
- مَرْبُوطٌ بِشَجَرَةٍ ― marbūṭun bi-šajaratin ― tied to a tree
- لَا عَلاقةَ لَهُ بِٱلْمَوْضُوعِ ― lā ʕalāqata lahu bi-l-mawḍūʕi ― unrelated to the subject
- denotes inclusion, surrounding, or location, within (a place); in; on; at
- بِٱلْأَرْضِ ― bi-l-ʔarḍi ― on the earth/in or inside the ground
- بِٱلقَرْيةِ ― bi-l-qaryati ― in the village
- بِٱلْمَكْتَبَةِ ― bi-l-maktabati ― at the library
- بِٱلْمَكْتَبِ ― bi-l-maktabi ― at the office/in the desk
- Synonym: فِي (fī)
- denotes requital, giving or doing in return; for
اِشْتَرَيْتُهُ بِأَلْفِ رِيَالٍ.
- ištaraytuhu bi-ʔalfi riyālin.
- I bought it for a thousand riyals.
- marks the predicate of a negative copula
هُوَ لَيْسَ بِشَاهِدٍ وَلَا بِقَارِئٍ.
- huwa laysa bi-šāhidin wa-lā bi-qāriʔin.
- He is not one who witnessed [it] or read [it].
Inflected forms | |||||
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Base form | بِـ (bi-) | ||||
Personal-pronoun- including forms |
Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
Masculine | Feminine | Common | Masculine | Feminine | |
First person | بِي (bī) | بِنَا (binā) | |||
Second person | بِكَ (bika) | بِكِ (biki) | بِكُمَا (bikumā) | بِكُمْ (bikum) | بِكُنَّ (bikunna) |
Third person | بِهِ (bihi) | بِهَا (bihā) | بِهِمَا (bihimā) | بِهِمْ (bihim) | بِهِنَّ (bihinna) |
ب (transliteration needed)
- The second letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script
ب (transliteration needed)
- The fourth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script
ب / ب / ب / ب (bā)
ب
- The second letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad.
From the Ottoman Turkish convention.
ب • (be)
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ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Lisan ud-Dawat abjad, equivalent to the Gujarati letter બ (ba).
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
ب • (bāʔ)
- The second letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is بَاء (bāʔ), and is preceded by أ (ʔalif) and followed by ت (tāʔ).
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
- پ (pāʔ)
Probably from a shortened form of Arabic بَغْيْ (baḡy, “to want”).
بِـ • (bi)
- -ing (prefix indicating the present continuous tense)
بِيِتْكَلَّم
- biyitkallam
- he is speaking
بِـ • (bi)
ب • (b)
- The second letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
Alternative scripts | |
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Arabic | ب |
Cyrillic | Б, б |
Latin | B, b |
Yañalif | B, ʙ |
ب • (b)
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
ب (be)
- The second letter of the Khowar abjad.
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
ب • (be)
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
- (Name of letter) IPA(key): [bɐ]
- (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [b]
- (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [p̚]
ب / ب / ب / ب
- The second letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.
ب (bi)
- Arabic spelling of bi (“by”)
From Arabic and Persian.
ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. Its name is با (ba, be).
ب • (be or bi)
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 229
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 313
ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Pashto alphabet.
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
- (phoneme, all dialects) IPA(key): /b/
- (Early Classical Persian, after a vowel) IPA(key): [β]
- (Early Classical Persian, between vowels) IPA(key): [β], [w]
- The phonemes /b/ and /w/ were not strongly distinguished inter-vocally until late Classical Persian.
- (letter name)
ب / ب / ب / ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ا and followed by پ. Its name is به (be) or بِ (be).
ب • (be)
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
- Previous letter: ا (alif)
- Next letter: پ (pe)
- (Shahmukhi script letters) ا, ب (b), پ (p), ت (t), ٹ (ṭ), ث (s̱), ج (j), چ (c), ح (ḥ), خ (x), د (d), ڈ (ḍ), ذ (ẕ), ر (r), ڑ (ṛ), ز (z), ژ (ž), س (s), ش (ś), ص (ṣ), ض (ẓ), ط (t̤), ظ (z̤), ع (ʻ), غ (ġ), ف (f), ق (q), ک (k), گ (g), ل (l), ࣇ (ḷ), م (m), ن (n), ݨ (ṇ), ں (ṉ), ہ (h), و (v), ی (y), ے (e) (Category: Punjabi letters)
ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Sindhi abjad.
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
South Levantine Arabic
بـ • (bi-)
بـ • (b-)
- prefix indicating the present tense
ب (b)
- with
- نحب قهوة بالحليب ― nḥib qahwa b-li-ḥlīb ― I like coffee with milk
- ترعش بالخوف ― turʕuš bi-l-ḵūf ― She is shaking with fear
inflected forms of ب | |||||
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Base form | ب (b) | ||||
Personal-pronoun- including forms |
singular | plural | |||
m | f | ||||
1st person | بي (biyya) | بينا (bīna) | |||
2nd person | بيك (bīk) | بيكم (bīkum) | |||
3rd person | بيه (bīh) | بيها (bīha) | بيهم (bīhum) |
- (letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /beː/
- (phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /b/
ب • (be)
- The second letter of the Urdu abjad.
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
ب • (be)
- The third letter of the Uyghur alphabet.
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |
ب (b)
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ |