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bae

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Baré.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Baré terms

• IPA^(key): /beɪ/, enPR: bā

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: bay, bey (pane–pain merger)

Syncopic form of babe or baby. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from "before anyone else", a possible backronym.

bae (plural baes)

1. (slang) Darling (term of endearment).
   • 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:

     And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You^[sic] better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.

   • 2014, Laken Howard, "Pillow Talk: Let's talk about V-day", The Current (entertainment insert of The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University), 13 February 2014, page 3:

     Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”

   • 2014, "How Steamy Is Your PDA?", Seventeen, June/July 2014, page 98:

     A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bae.

   Synonyms: babe, baby, darling, dear, love, sweetheart, loved one, significant other, special someone

From Korean 배 (bae).

bae (plural baes)

1. Asian pear.

From Old French bay, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.

bae (third-person singular simple present baes, present participle baeing, simple past and past participle baed)

1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, scene 3, line 70:

     He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.

   • c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, line 10:

     ...the ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.

• ABE, AEB, Abe, Abé, BEA, Bea, EAB, a-be, abe, aeb, eba

Acehnese Spelling
EBAYD	bae
Husaini	baë
Jawoe	باير

• ba'e, ba-e (nonstandard)

• IPA^(key): /baˈʔə/
• Hyphenation: ba‧e

bae (Jawoe spelling باير)

1. to wail, to cry loudly

   Synonyms: moe, nyabak, klik, phô

• “bae”, in Kamus Aceh Indonesia [Acehnese-Indonesian Dictionary] (Seri K; 85), Seri 1. A-L [Volume 1. A-L] (eBook; overall work in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 1985, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47
• “baë”, in Kamus Basa Acèh = Kamus Bahasa Aceh = Acehnese-Indonesian English Thesaurus. (Series C; 151), Series C, Volume 151 (eBook; overall work in English and Indonesian), Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 1999, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 119
• “باير”, in Woordenboek der Atjehsche Taal [Dictionary of the Acehnese Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Dutch), Den Haag: 's Gravenhage : Martinus Nijhoff, 1889, page 29

From Proto-Athabaskan *we-nʸ. Cognate with Lower Tanana ba, Navajo -BĮ́Į́ʼ, Koyukon baanh.

bae

1. a singular subject swims on the surface

This root is used to describe the swimming of a singular bird or mammal (including humans). Plural subjects swimming are described with the root ʼaetlʼ and swimming fish are described with laex.

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Momentaneous	baes	baen	baeł	beʼ
Distributive	beʼ	baen	beʼ	beʼ
Continuative	beʼ	baen	beʼ	beʼ
Reversitative	baex	baen	baex	baex
Progressive	baeł	—	—	—
Perambulative	baeł	baen	baeł	beʼ
Customary	baes	baes	baes	baes
Distributive-customary	biiʼ	biiʼ	biiʼ	biiʼ

• Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 101-102

Clipping of bambae, from English by and by. Cognate with Pijin bae and Tok Pisin bai.

bae

1. (colloquial, informal) alternative form of bambae (“future tense marker”)

   Pikinini blong mi bae i go skul nekis yia.

   My child will be going to school next year.

This reduced form is increasingly common in modern usage, especially in urban areas and among younger speakers.

• Crowley, Terry (2003), “bae”, in A New Bislama Dictionary, 2nd edition, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, →ISBN, page 41

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [pˠɑːɛ], (enunciated) [pˠɑ ɛ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠæɰjɛj/
• Bender phonemes: {bahyey}

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

bae (construct baein, causative verb kōbae) (alienable, Ratak)

1. bamboo

   Synonym: koba (Rālik)

   Remoot in kōbae in Jepaan.

   They went looking for Japanese bamboo.

Borrowed from English pie.

bae (alienable)

1. pie (type of pastry)

   Enno̧ an iōk bae.

   She cooks delicious pies.

• Abo, Takaji; Bender Byron W.; Capelle, Alfred; DeBrum, Tony (2009–), “bae”, in Marshallese–English Online Dictionary‎^[2]

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bae

1. throw

   Den bae inyo jo batu. ― I throw stone to him.

• → Negeri Sembilan Malay: baeh

Clipping of bambae, from English by and by. Cognate with Bislama bae and Tok Pisin bai.

bae

1. (colloquial, informal) alternative form of baebae (“future tense marker”)

   Bae tumoro mifala go long hom.

   We will go home tomorrow.

This reduced form is more commonly used in urban areas, especially by younger speakers. In rural areas, the fuller forms baebae, babae, bambae and baembae are still predominantly used.

• Jourdan, Christine with Maebiru, Ellen (2002), “bae”, in Pijin: A trilingual cultural dictionary (Pacific Linguistics; 526), Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, →ISBN, page 12

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /baːɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /bai̯/
• Rhymes: -aːɨ̯

From English bay, from French baie.

bae m (plural baeau)

1. (geography) bay
2. bay, parking space

   baeau anabl ― disabled bays

• beisfor

• Bae Ceredigion (“Cardigan Bay”)
• Bae Colwyn (“Colwyn Bay”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bae

1. alternative form of bai

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bae”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pai˨˦/
• Tone numbers: bae¹
• Hyphenation: bae

From Proto-Tai *pajᴬ (“to go”). Cognate with Thai ไป (bpai), Northern Thai ᨻᩱ (pai), Khün ᨻᩱ (pai), Lao ໄປ (pai), Lü ᦺᦔ (ṗay) and ᦺᦗ (pay), Tai Dam ꪼꪜ, Shan ပႆ (pǎi), Aiton ပ︀ႝ (pay), Bouyei bail.

bae (Sawndip forms 𭆛 or 丕 or 批 or 䢙 or 贝 or 𫨰, 1957–1982 spelling bəi)

1. to go
2. to walk
3. to operate; to run
4. to spend; to use
5. to remove; to get rid of
6. to be lost (from one's possession)
7. (of a liquid) to lose; to leak (gas)
8. (of a firearm) to go off accidentally; to discharge accidentally
9. to deviate
10. (euphemistic) to pass away

bae (Sawndip forms 𭆛 or 丕 or 批 or 䢙 or 贝 or 𫨰, 1957–1982 spelling bəi)

1. Used after a verb to indicate removal of an object.

From Chinese 批 (MC phej).

bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)

1. to criticize
2. to judge; to critique
3. to comment on; to correct
4. to approve

Compare Cantonese 批 (pai1, “to plaster”).

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bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)

1. to plaster; to coat