be called

See also: becalled

English

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Verb

be called (highly irregular; see conjugation table)

1. To have a specific name.
   • 1964 October 26 [1963 August], Provincial Atlas of China [Chung-kuo Fen-sheng Ti-t'u]‎, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Chung-kuo Fen-sheng Ti-t'u, Atlas Publishing House, Peiping, 16th Printing, pp 1-66, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 55‎:

     Chiang-tzu is situated on the east back of Nien-ch'u River, a tributary of Yalutsangpo River. This is one of three large cities in Tibet. Chiang-tzu is renowned for producing Tibetan rugs, and so is called the "Home of the Tibetan Rug".

Usage notes

• This is the passive of call.

Conjugation

Conjugation of be called

infinitive	(to) be called
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	am called, 'm called	was called
2nd-person singular	are called, 're called	were called
3rd-person singular	is called, 's called	was called
plural	are called, 're called	were called
subjunctive	be called	were called
imperative	be called	—
participles	being called	been called

Translations

to have a specific name

Arabic: سُمِّيَ (summiya) (passive of سمى) Armenian: կոչվել (hy) (kočʻvel) Azerbaijani: adlanmaq (az), adlandırılmaq Belarusian: называ́цца impf (nazyvácca) Bulgarian: ка́звам се (bg) impf (kázvam se), нари́чам се (bg) impf (naríčam se) Burmese: ခေါ် (my) (hkau) Catalan: dir-se (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 叫 (yue) (giu3) Dungan: җё (ži͡o) Eastern Min: 叫 (giú) Hakka: 叫 (kieu) Hokkien: 叫 (zh-min-nan) (kiò) Mandarin: 叫 (zh) (jiào), 稱為 / 称为 (zh) (chēngwéi) Wu: 叫 Czech: jmenovat se (cs) impf Danish: hedde (da) Dutch: heten (nl) Esperanto: nomiĝi Finnish: kutsutaan (general); (of people, animals, books, etc.) olla nimeltään (fi), olla nimeltä French: s'appeler (fr), se nommer (fr) Galician: chamarse German: heißen (de), sich nennen (de) Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (haitan) Greek: λέγομαι (el) (légomai), ονομάζομαι (el) (onomázomai) Hungarian: hívják (hu) (he/she/it is called, you [formal] are called), hívnak (I am called, you [informal] are called) Icelandic: heita (is) Ido: nomesar (io) Italian: chiamarsi (it) Japanese: ...と言う (ja) (...という, ... to iu), ...という (ja) (...という, ... to iu), ...と申す (ja) (...ともうす, ... to mōsu) (humble) Khmer: ឈ្មោះ (km) (chmŭəh) Korean: ...(이)라고 불리다 (ko) (...(i)rago bullida) Lao: ຊື່ (sư̄) Latin: nominor (la) Ligurian: ciamâse Macedonian: се вика impf (se vika) Mòcheno: hoasn Norwegian: Bokmål: hete (no) Nynorsk: heita Occitan: se sonar Old English: hātan Old Norse: heita Persian: گفته شدن (gofte šodan) Polish: nazywać się (pl) impf Portuguese: chamar-se Romanian: se numi, se chema Russian: называ́ться (ru) impf (nazyvátʹsja), именова́ться (ru) impf (imenovátʹsja) Sardinian: (please verify) narrersi Sassarese: ciamassi Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: зва̏ти се impf Latin: zvȁti se (sh) impf Slovak: volať sa impf, menovať sa impf Slovene: imenovati se (sl) impf Spanish: llamarse (es), decirse Swedish: heta (sv) Thai: ชื่อ (th) (chʉ̂ʉ), เรียกว่า (rîiak-wâa) Turkish: çağrılabilir Ukrainian: назива́тися impf (nazyvátysja) Uzbek: atalmoq (uz), aytilmoq (uz) Venetan: ciamarse Vietnamese: được gọi là (vi) Volapük: panemön (vo) Walloon: lomer (wa)