CS Knowledge Base

bey

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Beli (New Guinea).

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Beli (New Guinea) terms

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey, “gentleman, chief”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /beɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (AusE) IPA^(key): /bæɪ/
• (GenAm) IPA^(key): /beɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: bay; bae (toe–tow merger)

bey (plural beys)

1. (historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman) dominions.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 512:

     She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess.

   • 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 15:

     Whether his position with the Third Circle made the difference or the fact that he ranked as a bey, life in El Iskandryia was proving easier than he'd ever dreamed possible when he stepped off the plane.

2. In various other places, a prince or nobleman.

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bey”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

• 'bye, Bye, Eby, bye

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”).

• IPA^(key): /bɛj/

• Audio:

  (file)

bey m (plural beys)

1. bey

• “bey”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

bey [with dative]

1. obsolete spelling of bei

Unadapted borrowing from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛj/
• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Hyphenation: bèy

bey m (invariable)

1. bey

bey

1. alternative form of bee

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbei/ [ˈbei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei
• Syllabification: bey

bey m (plural beyes)

1. bey

• “bey”, 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

Borrowed from English bey, from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey, “gentleman, chief”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbej/ [ˈbeɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -ej
• Syllabification: bey

bey (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜌ᜔) (historical)

1. bey (governor of a Turkish dominion)

• “bey”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

bey

1. to be

   Ha manqədə az se rüj danq bedəm.

   Every month I go crazy for three days.

   (literally, “become crazy”)

   Dı mı ğum bedəş ya ne?

   Will you become my relative or not?

   Ço damə bedəniş?

   Why aren't you talking?

Simple forms																		Composite forms
Infinitive					Present stem									Past participle
be(y)					bi-/bı-									bə
Indicative present					Simple imperfect			Simple past imperfective (was)		Present optative		Imperative		Simple past perfective (became)		Future		Imperfect II composite				Plusquamperfect		preterite conditional
	Singular		Plural		Singular		Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular		Plural		singular	plural	singular
1	bedəm		bedəmon		əbim		əbimon	bim	bimon	bıbom	bıbomon			bəm	bəmon	bəbem	bəbemon	bedə bim		bedə bimon		bə bim	bə bimon	bə bəim
2	bedəş		bedəşon		əbiş		əbion	biş	bion	bıboş	bıboon	bıbi!	bıbən!	bəş	bəon	bəbeş	bəbeyon	bedə biş		bedə bion		bə biş	bə bion	bə bəiş
3	bedə		bedən		əbi		əbin	be	bin	bıbo	bıbon			bə	bən	bəbe	bəben	bedə be		bedə bin		bə be	bə bin	bə bəi

From Ottoman Turkish بك (bey), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.

Unrelated to Turkish bay (“gentleman”) (from Ottoman Turkish باي (bày, “a rich or great man”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbej/

bey (definite accusative beyi, plural beyler)

1. gentleman, mister
2. lord, master
3. husband

• bay
• beyefendi

• Sevortjan, E. V. (1978), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, pages 97, 98

bey

1. to farm