bebé

bebé m (plural bebés)

1. baby (very young human being)

• neñu

bebé m (plural bebés)

1. (Valencia) Alternative spelling of bebè

bebé m (plural bebés)

1. baby

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛbeː]
• Hyphenation: be‧bé
• Rhymes: -beː

bebé (plural bebék)

1. (music) double flat, the sign 𝄫

   Synonyms: kettős bé, dupla bé

   Hypernym: módosítójel

   Coordinate terms: bé, kereszt, kettős kereszt, feloldójel

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	bebé	bebék
accusative	bebét	bebéket
dative	bebének	bebéknek
instrumental	bebével	bebékkel
causal-final	bebéért	bebékért
translative	bebévé	bebékké
terminative	bebéig	bebékig
essive-formal	bebéként	bebékként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	bebében	bebékben
superessive	bebén	bebéken
adessive	bebénél	bebéknél
illative	bebébe	bebékbe
sublative	bebére	bebékre
allative	bebéhez	bebékhez
elative	bebéből	bebékből
delative	bebéről	bebékről
ablative	bebétől	bebéktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	bebéé	bebéké
non-attributive possessive - plural	bebééi	bebékéi

Possessive forms of bebé
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	bebém	bebéim
2nd person sing.	bebéd	bebéid
3rd person sing.	bebéje	bebéi
1st person plural	bebénk	bebéink
2nd person plural	bebétek	bebéitek
3rd person plural	bebéjük	bebéik

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *βeβe.

Cognate with Guaraní veve.

• IPA^(key): [β̞ɛˈβ̞ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: be‧bé

bebé (noun form bebé)

1. flying (that can fly)

   apŷabebé

   angel

   (literally, “flying man”)

bebé (first-person singular active indicative abebé, first-person singular negative active indicative n'abebéî, noun -) (intransitive)

1. to fly
   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, compiled by Eduardo de Almeida Navarro and Helder Perri Ferreira, Poemas: lírica portuguesa e tupi (Poetas do Brasil; 5), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, published 2004, →ISBN, page 186:

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     [Obebé îandé suí.]

     It flies away from us.

   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 148; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

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     [Irõ! Xe îar, abebé. Kó tatá xe soagûera.]

     Here I am! My master, I flew. Here is the fire I went after.

   • c. 1585, Joseph of Anchieta, Na aldeia de Guaraparim [In the village of Guaraparim], Guarapari, page 142, lines 183–192; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

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     [ […] Paranãgûasu rasapa, / ybytyrybo gûibebébo, / asó tupi moangaîpapa, / a'e ré, muru mombapa, / xe ratápe seroîkébo.]

     Crossing the ocean, flying over the mountains, I went to make the Tupi sin, bringing them to my fire after that to kill the damned.

• Nheengatu: wewé

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “bebé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: the classical indigenous language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 80, columns 1–2

• bebê (Brazil)

Borrowed from French bébé.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: be‧bé

bebé m or f by sense (plural bebés) (European Portuguese spelling)

1. baby

   Synonym: (Brazil) neném

• IPA^(key): /beˈbe/ [beˈβ̞e]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: be‧bé

Borrowed from French bébé.

• bebe (dialectal)

bebé m or f (plural bebés)

1. baby

   Synonyms: (Andes) guagua, nene, nena

See also Thesaurus:bebé.

bebé

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of beber

• “bebé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014