bebe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bebe"

Casiguran Dumagat Agta

Noun

bebe

1. 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

1. butterfly

Galician

Verb

bebe

1. inflection of beber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

bebe

1. inflection of beben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bébé (“baby”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈbe/

Noun

bebe

1. baby

Interlingua

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.be/
• Rhymes: -ebe
• Hyphenation: be‧be

Noun

bebe

1. baby (very young human being)

   Synonym: baby

Japanese

Romanization

bebe

1. Rōmaji transcription of べべ

Kapampangan

Alternative forms

• bebai (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbebe/ [ˈbɛː.bɛː]
• Hyphenation: be‧be

Noun

bébé

1. seashore
2. riverbank
3. mountainside

Derived terms

• bebebe
• binebayan
• binebe
• mabebe
• Macabebe
• makabebe
• minebe

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbebe/, [ˈɓɛ.bɛ]
• Hyphenation: be‧be

Noun

bebe (Lontara spelling ᨅᨙᨅᨙ)

1. 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

1. to drink

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.bi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.bi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.be/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.bɨ/ [ˈbɛ.βɨ]

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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Verb

bebe

1. inflection of beber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bébé and also influenced by English baby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.be/, /beˈbe/

Noun

bebe m (uncountable)

1. baby, infant

   Synonyms: bebeluș, copilaș

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bebe	bebeul
genitive-dative	bebe	bebeului
vocative	bebeule

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bebe	bebele
genitive-dative	bebe	bebelui
vocative	bebe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbebe/ [ˈbe.β̞e]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -ebe
• Syllabification: be‧be

Etymology 1

Variant of bebé.

Noun

bebe m (plural bebes, feminine beba, feminine plural bebas)

1. (Peru) baby

   Synonyms: bebé, wawa

Etymology 2

Verb

bebe

1. inflection of beber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “bebe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025