би

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bi"

Avar

Noun

би • (bi)

  1. blood

Bulgarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bi/

Verb

би • (bi)

  1. Second-person singular aorist indicative form of бия.
  2. Third-person singular aorist indicative form of бия.

Buryat

Pronoun

би • (bi)

  1. I (personal pronoun)

See also
Buryat personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person би (bi) бидэ (bide)
2nd person familiar ши (ši) та (ta)
polite та (ta)
3rd person энэ (ene), тэрэ (tere) эдэ (ede), тэдэ (tede), тэдэнэр (tedener)

Evenki

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *bi, whence Udihe би (bi) and Manchu ᠪᡳ (bi). Compare also Mongolian би (bi), from Proto-Mongolic *bi.

Pronoun

би • (bi)

  1. I (personal pronoun)

Forest Enets

Noun

би

  1. water

References
  • И. П Сорокина, Д. С Болина, Энецкие тексты (2005), page 225

Kalmyk

Etymology

From Written Oirat ᡋᡅ (bi), from Proto-Mongolic *bi. Cognate with Mongolian би (bi), Buryat би (bi), etc.

Pronoun

би • (bi)

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

See also
Kalmyk personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person би (bi) бидн (bidn)
2nd person чи (çi) та (ta), тадн (tadn)
3rd person эн (en), энтн (entn),
тер (ter), тертн (tertn)		 эдн (edn), тедн (tedn)

Komi-Permyak

Etymology

A Permic word. Maybe related to the Finnic and Samic words meaning sun, compare Estonian päev, Finnish päivä and Northern Sami beaivi.

Noun

би • (bi)

  1. fire

Macedonian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [bi]

Particle

би • (bi)

  1. А verbal particle used to render the conditional mood.
    Тие би јаделе.
    They would eat.

Mongolian

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *bi, no doubt related somehow with Proto-Turkic *ben and Proto-Tungusic *bi.

Compare Dongxiang bi, Turkish ben, Evenki би (bi).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

би • (bi) (Mongolian spelling ᠪᠢ (bi))

  1. I (personal pronoun)

See also
Mongolian personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person би (bi) бид (bid)
2nd person familiar чи (či) та (ta)
polite та (ta)
3rd person тэр (ter) тэд нар (ted nar)

Russian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [bʲi]
  • Audio(file)
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Etymology 1

Borrowed from English B.

Noun

би • (bi) n inan (indeclinable)

  1. (English letter) B, b

Etymology 2

Clipping of бисексуа́л (bisɛksuál) or бисексуа́лка (bisɛksuálka).

Noun

би • (bi) m anim or f anim (indeclinable)

  1. (colloquial) a bi person (someone who is bisexual)
    Вы гетеро? — Я би! ― Vy getero? — Ja bi! ― Are you hetero? — I'm bi!
    Заче́м же сра́зу «яби», я про́сто спроси́л. ― Začém že srázu “jabi”, ja prósto sprosíl. ― Why "you may fuck me" at once? I've just asked.
    (pun)

Udihe

Pronunciation

Pronoun

би (bi)

  1. I (personal pronoun)
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