bi

From bisexual.

• IPA^(key): /baɪ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: bye, buy, by

bi (not comparable)

1. (informal) Bisexual.

   I'm straight, but my oldest sister is bi.

• pan, mono

• bi-

Mandarin 璧 (bì)

• (UK, US) enPR: bē, IPA^(key): /biː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: b, be, Bea, bee

bi (plural bi)

1. A type of jade disk produced in ancient China.

• Bi (jade) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IB, ib.

A short form of bijë, from archaic bilë ("daughter, girl").

bi

1. A friendly exclamation to a person (female).

   Fol bi, Dritë!

   Speak, therefore, Dritë!

2. An exclamation of surprise (to a female person).

   Bi! Po ç'është kjo?

   Girl! What is this?

   Po ç'është kjo, bi?

   What is this, girl?

• bre
• brez
• pra

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bi

1. two

• IPA^(key): [bì]

bì

1. bin for grain storage

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

From Old Norse bý, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰī-.

• Rhymes: -i
• Rhymes: -iː

bi c (singular definite bien, plural indefinite bier)

1. bee

• hveps c

bi

1. imperative of bie

Clipping of biseksueel.

• IPA^(key): /bi/

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• Hyphenation: bi
• Rhymes: -i

bi (invariable, comparative meer bi, superlative meest bi)

1. (colloquial) bisexual

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi/, [ˈbi]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbiː/, [ˈbiː]
• Hyphenation: bi

bi

1. (colloquial) bi (bisexual)

From bissexuel, or possibly directly from English bi

• IPA^(key): /bi/

bi m or f (plural bis)

1. bi, bisexual person

bi (invariable)

1. bi, bisexual

• “bi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [biː]

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bi (not comparable)

1. (informal) bi

bi

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌹

bi

1. green

• IPA^(key): [ˈbì]

bi

1. wind

From Latin bē (the name of the letter B).

• IPA^(key): /bi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Stress: bì
• Hyphenation: bi

bi f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.; bee

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, i lunga, kappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta

bi

1. Rōmaji transcription of び
2. Rōmaji transcription of ビ

From Sanskrit बीज (bīja), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bíHĵam. Cognate with Konkani बी (bī) and Parachi bīz (“seed-corn”).

bi

1. a seed
2. semen
3. moth larva

• bíyak

bi

1. by
2. with

From Old Saxon bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi.

• IPA^(key): /biː/

bi

1. at, with

   Bi us is dat ümmer Feest.

   With us it's always a party.

2. by

   Wi wahnt in en Huus bi de Meer.

   I live in a house by the lake.

3. around, about (often in combination with üm)

   Dat weer üm bi so'n twintig Johr vör.

   It was about twenty years ago.

bi

1. alongside, with
2. in order to adjust or improve

bi

1. Nonstandard spelling of bī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of bí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of bì.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old Dutch bi, from Proto-Germanic *bi.

• IPA^(key): /biː/

bi

1. by, near, around
2. beside, alongside
3. at, with
4. among
5. during
6. by (the work of)
7. because of

• Dutch: bij
• Limburgish: bie

bi

1. by, near, around

• Dutch: bij
• Limburgish: bie

• “bi (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “bi (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “bi”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English bi, from Proto-Germanic *bi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiː/

bi

1. by
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende. Also Filip of Repintoun whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto. And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew. And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”

• English: by

bi

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ber: I saw.
   • 2011, Ana Afonso, L Princepico Chapter 1:

     Quando you tenie seis anhos, bi ua beça ua eimaige mi guapa nun lhibro subre la floresta birge que se chamaba "Stórias Bibidas".

     • 1948 translation by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

       Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.

bi f

1. (Mooring) bee

bǐ

1. we (first-person plural pronoun)

From Proto-Germanic *bi.

bī

1. by, near
2. at, with

• Middle Dutch: bi
  • Dutch: bij
  • Limburgish: bie

• “bī”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• be

From Proto-Germanic *bi (“near, by, around, about”), q.v.

• IPA^(key): /biː/

bī

1. by, near, around, to, in, at, about, with
2. beside

• Middle English: bi
  • English: by

From Proto-Germanic *bi, whence also Old English bi.

bī

1. by
2. at

• Alsatian: bii
• German: bei
• Vilamovian: by
• Yiddish: בײַ‎ (bay)

From Proto-Germanic *bi, whence also Old English bi.

bī

1. by, near, to
2. beside

• Low German: bi, by

bi (plural bi, comparable)

1. bisexual (sexually attracted to persons of either sex)

• bissexual

bi m, f (plural bis)

1. bisexual (bisexual person)

• bissexual

bi

1. by

From Old Irish bí (imperative singular of at·tá), from Proto-Celtic *buyo-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-

bi (past bha, future bidh, verbal noun bhith)

1. be, exist

• beò

• is

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

bi

1. second-person singular aorist form of biti.
2. third-person singular aorist form of biti.

From Proto-Tungusic *bi. Cognate with Evenki би (bi), Manchu ᠪᡳ (bi).

• IPA^(key): /bi/

bi

1. I

bi (invariable)

1. bi (bisexual)

From Proto-Nguni *-bí, from Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́ɪ̀.

-bí

1. bad
2. evil
3. ugly

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Rhymes: -iː

From Old Swedish bī, bȳ, from Old Norse bý, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰī-.

bi n

1. bee

• More rare spellings of the definite forms are bit/bits (singular) and bien/biens (plural). However, the spellings in the inflection box are the most common.

• bålgeting c
• geting c

bi

1. (informal) bisexual

bi (not comparable)

1. (in some fixed expressions) by

• stå någon bi

From English bee.

bi

1. bee

bi

1. (cardinal) Contraction of bir.

Borrowed from French bille.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɪj˧˧]

(classifier cục, hòn, viên) bi

1. a marble (spherical ball)

   bắn bi

   to shoot marbles

2. (billiards, snooker) a ball

   bi cái

   a cue ball

3. (slang) a ball (testicle)

   Á! Dập bi tao rồi!

   Ow! Mah bawlls pahpped!

• bút bi (“ball-point pen”)
• bi cái (“cue ball”)

bi

1. because

bi

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

• (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, èng, aets, i/i dot, je, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u/u bedol, w, ỳ ^{(Category: cy:Latin letter names)}

From Proto-Nguni *-bí, from Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́ɪ̀.

-bí

1. bad
2. evil
3. ugly

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

bi

1. water

• Ehret, Christopher (2001) A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika: Beihefte; 12)‎, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN.

From Proto-Tai *piːᴬ (“year”). Cognate with Thai ปี (bpii), Northern Thai ᨸᩦ, Lao ປີ (pī), Lü ᦔᦲ (ṗii), Shan ပီ (pǐi), Tai Nüa ᥙᥤ (pi), Ahom 𑜆𑜣 (pii), Bouyei bil.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: bi¹
• Hyphenation: bi

bi (old orthography bi, Sawndip forms 𭯌, 𭽨, 𭙂)

1. year
2. year old

• nienz

From Proto-Nguni *-bí, from Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́ɪ̀.

-bí

1. bad
2. evil
3. ugly

• -bana
• isibi
• okubi
• ububi