text:
Banner

Proper noun

 * 1)  for a standard-bearer.

Noun

 * 1) banner

title: Banner


text:
Bantu

Etymology
From, as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist.

Noun

 * 1)  A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.
 * 2)  A black South African.
 * 3)  The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Usage notes
Black South Africans were at times officially called "Bantus" by the Apartheid regime. New legislation and documents from the South African government have replaced "Bantu" with "Black" due to the former word's derogatory connotations. Outside Southern Africa the term is still widely used as a term for the Bantu-speaking peoples.

Translations

 * Polish:

 * Afrikaans: Bantoe, Sintoe
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: bantu
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:, Bantu-Sprachfamilie
 * Japanese: バントゥー
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bantu
 * Nynorsk: bantu
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Proper noun

 * 1) Bantu

Noun

 * 1) Bantu speaker

Noun

 * 1) female Bantu speaker

Etymology

 * compare 🇨🇬, ultimately.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Bantu


text:
Bar

Etymology 2
From.

Translations

 * Albanian: Tivar, Tivari
 * Greek: Θηβάριον, Αντιβάριον
 * Italian: Antivari, Antibari
 * Latin: Antibarium
 * Marathi:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Ба̑р
 * Roman:
 * Turkish: Bar
 * Venetian: Var

Etymology 3
Shortening.

Etymology 4
From.

Translations

 * Belarusian: Бар
 * Marathi:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian:

Etymology 1
Borrowed in the 19th century from, from.

Noun

 * 1) bar desk
 * 2) night club pub

Etymology 2
Scholarly creation from.

Noun

 * 1) bar unit of pressure
 * 2) cash

Etymology
, from.

title: Bar


text:
Barak

Etymology 1
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) The commander of the army of Deborah in the Old Testament.
 * 2)  of biblical origin, often representing a transliteration of a modern Israeli name.
 * , often representing a transliteration of a modern Israeli name.
 * , often representing a transliteration of a modern Israeli name.

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with the biblical name Baruch of Hebrew origin. The usage of the root as a male name meaning "blessing" occurs in the Ancient Semitic Sabean (barqac), in Palmyrene (baraq), and as a Divine name in Assyrian Ramman-Birqu and Gibil-Birqu

Proper noun

 * 1)  Biblical figure

title: Barak


text:
Barato

Etymology
Borrowed from.

title: Barato


text:
Barb

Noun

 * 1)  A fan of the American singer, especially a female one.

title: Barb


text:
Barbe

Proper noun

 * , equivalent to English Barbara as a saint's name. Usual given name form: Barbara

Noun

 * 1) barbel fish

title: Barbe


text:
Barbie

Translations

 * Arabic: بَارْبِي
 * Dutch: Babs, Babbe
 * Esperanto: Barnjo
 * Marathi: बार्बी
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,

Etymology 2
Named for Barbara Handler-Segal, daughter of co-founder, in 1959.

Noun

 * 1) A tall, slender female fashion doll.
 * 2)  A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.
 * 1)  A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.
 * 1)  A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.
 * 1)  A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.
 * 1)  A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَارْبِي
 * Armenian: Բարբի
 * Bulgarian: Барби
 * Catalan: Barbie
 * Cebuano: Barbie
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, Barbie
 * Danish: Barbiedukke, Barbie-dukke, Barbie
 * Finnish:, Barbie
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბარბი
 * German:, Barbiepuppe
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: בַּרְבִּי
 * Hindi: बार्बी
 * Hungarian: Barbie
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: バービー
 * Korean: ^바비
 * Lao: ບາຣ໌ບີ້
 * Latvian: Bārbija
 * Lithuanian: Barbė
 * Macedonian: ба́рбика, Барби
 * Marathi: बार्बी
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Barbie
 * Romanian: Barbie
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, Барби, , Barbie
 * Slovak: Barbie
 * Slovene: Barbie
 * Spanish: Barbie
 * Swedish:, , Barbie
 * Tagalog: Barbie
 * Thai: บาร์บี้
 * Turkish: Barbie
 * Ukrainian: Ба́рбі
 * Urdu: باربی
 * Vietnamese: Barbie

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Polish:, , lalunia
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

title: Barbie


text:
Barca

Etymology 1
From, from , from , ultimately from.

Proper noun

 * , particularly.

Etymology 2
From, from , from the local tribe of the Barraci.

Translations

 * Arabic: برقة
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Βάρκη
 * Modern:
 * French: Barqa
 * Italian: Barca
 * Latin: Barca
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: Barca

Etymology 3
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  FC Barcelona, a prominent Spanish association football club.
 * 2) * 2000 April 19, BBC Online, "Football News":
 * 3) * There's only one Barca
 * 4) * 2005 December 16, CNN, "Football":
 * Chelsea and Barca clash once again

Etymology 1
From, from , ultimately from.

Proper noun

 * , particularly.

Etymology 2
From, from the local tribe of the Barraci.

title: Barca


text:
Bari

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, ultimately from.

Proper noun

 * 1) The,.

Derived terms

 * Emirate of Bari

Translations

 * Bulgarian: Ба́ри
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Maltese: Bari
 * Marathi: बारी
 * Neapolitan: Barë
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: Bari

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: Ба́ри
 * Catalan: Bari
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Maltese: Bari
 * Marathi: बारी
 * Neapolitan: Barë
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sicilian: Bari
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: Bari

Proper noun

 * 1) A Nilotic language of Sudan.

Noun

 * 1) A tribe of Karo, Nilotic people inhabiting South Sudan, who speak the Bari language.

Etymology
From, probably from ; an appellative akin to , , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

title: Bari


text: Baritone

title: Baritone


text:
Barium

Noun

 * 1) barium

Coordinate terms

 * Previous: . Next:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * , situated on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, now Bari

Noun

 * 1) barium

title: Barium


text:
Bark

Noun

 * 1)  birch

Noun

 * 1) bark three-masted vessel

title: Bark


text:
Barnet

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) A placename

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Barnet is the 28001st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 856 individuals. Barnet is most common among White (78.04%) individuals.

title: Barnet


text:
Barometer

Noun

 * 1) barometer (instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure)

title: Barometer


text:
Baron

Etymology

 * As a, English, Jewish, , , , , , , , , and  surname, all from the noun . Compare ,.
 * Also as a French surname, from several places in France.
 * As an (Veneto) surname, variant of.
 * Also as a Czech surname, from a pet form of.
 * As an surname, Anglicized from  ; see.
 * General surname: Anglicization of, , etc.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
Ca. 1600, from, from.

Noun

 * 1) baron

title: Baron


text:
Barren

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  bar, ingot
 * 2)  parallel bars

title: Barren


text: Bars

title: Bars


text:
Base

Etymology
From.

Etymology 1
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  A female cousin.
 * 2)  paternal aunt
 * 1)  paternal aunt

Etymology 2
19th c., backformation from, plural of , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  base compound that will neutralize an acid

title: Base


text:
Baseball

Noun

 * 1)  baseball ballgame
 * 2)  baseball ball

title: Baseball


text:
Bash

Etymology
Short for, a pun on the name of the , an earlier Unix shell designed by , and the Christian concept of being "born again".

Proper noun

 * 1)  The 's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating systems.
 * 2)  The scripting language provided with this interpreter.
 * 3) Shortening of Sebastian.
 * 1) Shortening of Sebastian.

Translations

 * Esperanto: Baŝo

title: Bash


text:
Basia

Etymology
+.

title: Basia


text:
Basic

Etymology
Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

Proper noun

 * 1) A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).

Hyponyms

 * Visual Basic

title: Basic


text:
Basil

Etymology
Name of several early saints, particularly in the Orthodox Church, from, from. .

Proper noun

 * , in quiet but steady use in the UK.

Related terms

 * Diminutives: Baz, Bazza

Translations

 * Albanian: Vasili
 * Arabic: فاسيلي
 * Armenian: Բարսեղ, Վասիլ
 * Asturian:
 * Belarusian: Васі́ль
 * Bulgarian: Василий
 * Catalan: Basili
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 巴茲爾, 巴西爾
 * Chuvash: Ваҫлей
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ვასილ
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: וסילי
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: バジル
 * Kazakh: Бәзіл
 * Korean: 바실리
 * Latin: Basilius
 * Latvian: Basilijs
 * Macedonian: Васил
 * Occitan: Basili, Bausilha
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, Бэ́зил
 * Serbo-Croatian: Bazilije, Василије
 * Slovak: Vasil
 * Slovene: Bazilij
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: Васи́ль
 * Yiddish: וואַסילי

title: Basil


text:
Basilisk

Noun

 * 1) basilisk, cockatrice (mythical creature)
 * 2) basilisk, any of genus Basiliscus of lizards

title: Basilisk


text:
Basis

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) basis foundation, principle
 * 2)  base
 * 3)  basis
 * 4)  grass roots
 * 1)  grass roots

title: Basis


text:
Basketball

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) basketball

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) basketball (ball)
 * 2)  basketball (sport)

title: Basketball


text:
Baskisch

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Basque

Proper noun

 * 1) Basque (language)

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) Basque (the Basque language)

title: Baskisch


text:
Bass

Proper noun

 * 1) A place name:
 * , named after.
 * , named for the presence of (fish) in the local creek.
 * , named for the presence of (fish) in the local creek.
 * , named for the presence of (fish) in the local creek.
 * , named for the presence of (fish) in the local creek.
 * , named for the presence of (fish) in the local creek.
 * , named for the presence of (fish) in the local creek.
 * , named for the presence of (fish) in the local creek.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  bass low spectrum of sound
 * 2)  bass singer; section of musical group
 * 3)  bass, double bass stringed instrument

Noun

 * 1)  bass
 * 2) itch

title: Bass


text:
Bast

Etymology
From and, probably related to , from.

Noun

 * 1) bast

title: Bast


text:
Bastard

Etymology
From, from , probably from , but the precise derivation is uncertain.

Noun

 * 1)  bastard person born to unmarried parents
 * 2)  bastard; mongrel person born to parents considered incongruous in class, race, etc.; male or unspecified sex
 * 3)  crossbreed, hybrid, mongrel
 * 1)  crossbreed, hybrid, mongrel
 * 1)  crossbreed, hybrid, mongrel

Usage notes

 * The German word is also used an insult, but not as frequently as in English. The connection with “ignoble extraction” is still clearly felt (which is not always the case in English).

Hyponyms

title: Bastard


text: Bastarde

title: Bastarde


text:
Batak

Noun

 * 1) A member of any of several different peoples of North Sumatra in Indonesia.
 * 2) A member of an ethnic group of the Philippines.

Proper noun

 * 1) Any of the languages these peoples speak.
 * 2) The  language (not closely related to the above).

title: Batak


text:
Bath

Etymology 1
From, from , from the dative case of.

Translations

 * Arabic: باث
 * Aramaic: ܒܐܬ
 * Armenian: Բաթ
 * Azerbaijani: Bat
 * Belarusian: Бат
 * Bengali: ব্যাঠ
 * Bulgarian: Бат
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 巴斯
 * Mandarin:
 * Georgian: ბათი
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: באת׳
 * Hindi: बैथ
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: Бат
 * Korean: 바스
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Latin: Aquae Sulis
 * Latvian: Bāta
 * Lithuanian: Batas
 * Marathi: बाथ
 * Mazanderani: باث
 * Mingrelian: ბათი
 * Norman: Ba
 * Old English:
 * Persian: باث
 * Russian:
 * Thai: บาธ
 * Turkish: Bath
 * Ukrainian: Бат
 * Urdu: باتھ
 * Welsh:
 * Western Panjabi: باتھ

Etymology 2
Nonstandard transliteration of.

Etymology
First attested as insula de boestenbare dicta in 1235. Derived from. Originally a hydronym.

See also 🇨🇬.

title: Bath


text:
Batman

Etymology 1
The province is named after its capital city, and the city is named after a nearby river,. Beyond that, the origin of the name is unclear.

Proper noun

 * 1) The capital city of Batman Province, Turkey.
 * 1) The capital city of Batman Province, Turkey.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 巴特曼
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: Батман
 * Macedonian: Батман
 * Ottoman Turkish: باطمان
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Batman
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:

Etymology 3
From ; originally the Bat-Man. .

Proper noun

 * 1) A fictional hero and the main protagonist of, noted for his intellect and stealth, who uses a bat-themed costume and equipment (including a belt with an array of utilities) and is assisted by his sidekick Robin.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَاتْمَان
 * Bengali: ব্যাটম্যান
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: Batman
 * Esperanto: Vespertviro, Vespertulo
 * Estonian: Nahkhiirmees
 * Finnish: Lepakkomies
 * French:
 * German: Batman
 * Greek:, Άνθρωπος Νυχτερίδα,
 * Hebrew: באטמן, איש העטלף
 * Hindi: बैटमैन
 * Hungarian:, Denevérember
 * Icelandic: Leðurblökumaðurinn
 * Irish: Fear na nIaltóg
 * Italian: Batman
 * Japanese: バットマン
 * Korean: ^배트맨
 * Latvian: Betmens
 * Macedonian: Бе́тмен
 * Marathi: बॅट्मॅन
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Batman, Homem-Morcego
 * Romanian: Batman
 * Russian: Бэ́тмен
 * Spanish: Batman
 * Swedish: Batman, Läderlappen
 * Tagalog: Batman
 * Thai: แบทแมน
 * Turkish: Yarasa Adam
 * Vietnamese: Người Dơi
 * Welsh: Ystlumddyn

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1)  superhero

Etymology 2
.

Proper noun

 * 1)  superhero

Etymology
.

title: Batman


text:
Battle

Etymology
Capitalization of. .

Proper noun

 * 1)  from places in England that have been sites of a battle.
 * 2) A place name:
 * 3) ; supposed site of the Battle of Hastings.

title: Battle


text:
Bavarian

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to Bavaria

Translations

 * Armenian: բավարական
 * Asturian:
 * Belarusian: бава́рскі
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bayersk
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: bavarês
 * Galician: bavarés, bávaro
 * Georgian: ბავარიის, ბავარიული
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bæverskur
 * Irish: Bavárach
 * Italian:
 * Latin: bavaricus, Bavarus
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bayersk
 * Nynorsk: bayersk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ба̀варскӣ
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: бава́рський

Noun

 * 1) A person from Bavaria or of Bavarian descent.

Translations

 * Armenian: բավարացի
 * Asturian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:, , Bavoranka
 * Danish: bayrer
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: bavarés, bávaro
 * Georgian: ბავარიელი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Baier, Bairin
 * Icelandic: Bæjari, Bæverji
 * Irish: Bavárach
 * Italian:
 * Polish: Bawar, ,
 * Portuguese:, bávara
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: бава́рець, бава́рка

Proper noun

 * 1) A German dialect spoken in Bavaria (a state of southern West Germany) and Austria, which varies considerably across different regions.

Translations

 * Arabic: البافارية
 * Bavarian: Boarisch
 * Breton: bavareg
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 巴伐利亚语 (Bāfálìyà yǔ)
 * Czech: bavorština
 * Danish: bayersk
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, Baijerin kieli
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბავარიული, ბავარიული დიალექტი
 * German:, bairische Mundart, baierische Mundart
 * Hebrew: בווארית
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: バイエルン語, バイエルン方言
 * Portuguese:
 * Scots: Bavarie, Bavarian
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

title: Bavarian


text:
Baviera

Etymology
or.

Etymology
From, from , compound of and.

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1) Bavaria

title: Baviera


text:
Bay

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)   metropolitan area in California;

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 灣區
 * Mandarin: 灣區

 * Spanish: La Bahía

 * French:
 * Irish:

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bay is the 5477th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,350 individuals. Bay is most common among White (59.0%) and Black/African American (34.6%) individuals.

Etymology
Possibly related to (c.f. ). The letter $⟨y⟩$ was also used for  in Spanish orthography (c.f. ). English-influenced pronunciation is from.

title: Bay


text:
Baz

Proper noun

 * 1)  A diminutive of the male given name Barry.
 * 2)  A diminutive of the male given name Basil.
 * 1)  A diminutive of the male given name Basil.

Etymology 2
Two main origins:
 * Borrowed from.
 * Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Baz is the 38850th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 568 individuals. Baz is most common among White (42.25%), Hispanic/Latino (32.22%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (17.78%) individuals.

title: Baz


text:
Bd

Symbol

 * 1)  Symbol for baud, a unit of data transfer rate.

Noun

 * , in the sense of a board of directors.

title: Bd


text:
Be

Symbol

 * 1)  beryllium.

Etymology
Name of the letter, from its shape.

Noun

 * 1)  flat sign, ♭

title: Be


text:
Bea

Translations

 * French:

Etymology
Shortening of or its nativised variant ; in some cases it may be a shortening of  or, although this name is rather uncommon in Belgium and especially the Netherlands.

Etymology
Shortening of or.

Noun

 * 1) beer

title: Bea


text:
Beadle

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Chauncey Delos Beadle (1866-1950).

Proper noun

 * 1)  for a court official.

title: Beadle


text:
Beamer

Etymology
or.

Noun

 * 1)  A BMW car or motorcycle.
 * 2)  An employee of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
 * 1)  An employee of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

Etymology
From ; the former from. Inasmuch as the English verb does not share the figurative sense “to project”, the German is a pseudo-anglicism. Compare the same in 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) video projector

title: Beamer


text:
Bean

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist William Jackson Bean (1863-1947).

Etymology
Probably an occupational surname for a bean farmer, from bean.

title: Bean


text:
Beantown

Etymology
, in reference to Boston baked beans.

Usage notes
Typically not used by the residents of Boston, who may find it annoying.

title: Beantown


text:
Beast

Proper noun

 * 1)  A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.
 * 2) A wild, or seemingly-wild, animal that roams free in a country where it is usually only found in zoos.
 * 3)  A cadet's basic training at West Point.
 * 1)  A cadet's basic training at West Point.
 * 1)  A cadet's basic training at West Point.

Translations

 * Catalan: Bèstia
 * Esperanto: apokalipsa besto
 * Finnish: Peto
 * French: Bête
 * German:
 * Greek: Θηρίο
 * Russian: Зверь
 * Spanish: Bestia

title: Beast


text:
Beau

Etymology
Shortened from surname type given names such as Beauregard or Beaumont, or from the word.

Proper noun

 * 1)  used since mid-twentieth century.

Coordinate terms

 * Belle female given name

Etymology
From.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  a beau handsome, usually dandyish man

title: Beau


text:
Beaver

Etymology 1
Capitalization of. .

Noun

 * 1) A native or resident of the American state of Oregon.
 * 2)   A member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement, composed of groups for children, traditionally boys, of approximately five to seven years of age.

Etymology 2
. From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The Dane-zaa people, indigenous to northern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.

title: Beaver


text:
Beck

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck (1856-1931).

Etymology

 * As a surname, from, see also 🇨🇬. Also a spelling variant of.
 * As a surname, shortened from.

Proper noun

 * , likely named after the Beck family.
 * 1) The, or The Beck,.
 * 1) The, or The Beck,.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Beck is the 328th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 93,786 individuals. Beck is most common among White (90.27%) individuals.

Etymology
from, from , ultimately related to.

Noun

 * 1) baker

Etymology
from, from , ultimately related to.

Noun

 * 1)  baker

Etymology 1
From, from , ultimately related to. .

Noun

 * 1)  baker

Etymology 2
From, probably through , from , from or , from , probably from. Compare modern 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  The beak of a bird of prey.

title: Beck


text:
Beda

Proper noun

 * 1) Bede

Proper noun

 * 1) Bede

title: Beda


text:
Beehive

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A 12- to 13-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.

Translations

 * Spanish:

Proper noun

 * 1)  The executive wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings.
 * 2)  New Zealand government.

title: Beehive


text:
Beet

Noun

 * 1)  fine after losing a card game.
 * 2)  losing a card game.
 * 1)  losing a card game.

Etymology 2
, compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  beet

Etymology
From, , , from , , from , from. .

The West Germanic noun had simple -d- in the nominative/accusative and geminated -dd- in the oblique cases. This alternation was generally levelled towards the geminate, but variants with a simple consonant survived through Old and Middle High German. The form, which is of Central German origin, likely continues such dialectal forms, though some consider it a late and arbitrary alteration. The semantic distinction from is in any case artificial and dates from the 17th century.

Noun

 * 1) bed for plants

Noun

 * 1)  fine after losing a card game.
 * 2)  losing a card game.

Etymology 2
, compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  beet

Noun

 * 1) beet

title: Beet


text:
Begonia

Etymology
by botanist Carl von Linnaeus (1707–1778)

Hypernyms

 * For more than 1,200 of the estimated 2,000+ species, organized by section see ; for nearly three hundred species with images see

title: Begonia


text:
Begum

Etymology
Borrowed from, the feminine equivalent of the title or.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Begum is the 2924th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 12255 individuals. Begum is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.6%) individuals.

title: Begum


text:
Bell

Proper noun

 * 1)  of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."
 * 2) The Bell telephone company (after, the inventor of the telephone.)
 * 3) ; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.
 * 1) ; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.

Noun

 * 1)  a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bell is the 106th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 220,599 individuals. Bell is most common among White (61.11%) and Black (32.35%) individuals.

title: Bell


text:
Bella

Etymology
From : a diminutive of Isabella and Arabella, by folk etymology interpreted as.

Usage notes
Despite its popularity in English-speaking countries, Bella is never used as a first name in Italy.

Translations

 * Hebrew:
 * Portuguese: Bela
 * Yiddish: ביילע

Etymology
Likely a variant of, perhaps from Latin or Italian, functioning as a shortening of names like , etc.

Etymology
From.

title: Bella


text:
Belle

Etymology 1
From, from.

Coordinate terms

 * Beau male given name

Translations

 * Japanese: ベォレ (Berre)

Etymology 2
Diminutive of Isabelle and Annabelle.

Usage notes
More common as a middle name than a first name.

Etymology
From, from , from. Partly, after the character of.

Etymology
Functioning as a shortening of names like, etc. Likely influenced by French.

title: Belle


text:
Ben

Proper noun

 * 1) A shortening of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.

Noun

 * 1)  A US$100 bill, which bears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Often used in the plural form to indicate large sums of money.

Translations

 * Persian:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * : leg

Noun

 * : bone (as material)
 * : bones; a skeleton or skeletons

title: Ben


text:
Benedict

Etymology
From Saint Benedict, founder of the Benedictine Order, from, from. .

Proper noun

 * , particularly of the sixth-century founder of the Benedictine order, and of several popes.
 * 1) A placename:
 * , named after S. S. Benedict.
 * , named after S. S. Benedict.

Translations

 * Albanian: Bdek
 * Armenian: Բենեդիկտոս
 * Breton:, Benedig, Benniged
 * Bulgarian: Бенедикт
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: Benedikt
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: Benedikto
 * Extremaduran: Benitu
 * Faroese: Bænadikt, Benadikt
 * Finnish:
 * Franco-Provençal: Benimo
 * French:
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: ბენედიქტე
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Εὔφημος
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: Beinidict
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ベネディクト
 * Korean: ^베네딕토
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: Benedikts
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maori: Penetito, Penetiki
 * Neapolitan: Benedèttë
 * Norwegian: Bendik
 * Occitan: Benaset, Benesech, Benest
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: Benedict
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Бенедикт
 * Roman: Benedikt
 * Slovak: Benedikt
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese: Biển Đức, Bênêđictô

 * French:

title: Benedict


text:
Benjamin

Etymology
From, from , from. Authorities differ on the meaning of the original Hebrew. Philo of Alexandria, the Samaritan Pentateuch The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs and Midrash Leḳaḥ-Ṭob understand יָמִין to mean "days" (a meaning attested in Daniel 12:13) understanding the name to mean "son of days (i.e. old age)" (compare to the direct translations into 🇨🇬 (bin yawmīn) "son of the days" and 🇨🇬 "son of the right hand"), a formula paraphrased in Genesis 40:22 where Benjamin is described as a child of Jacob's old age. Rashi in his commentary on Genesis also gives this as a possible meaning but favors an understanding of יָמִין to mean "right" in the sense of "the south", noting that Benjamin was the only son of Jacob born in the south. Jerome understood the name to mean "son of the right hand" and Gesenius speculated that this expression might have meant "son of good fortune".

Proper noun

 * 1) The youngest of the sons of Jacob and Rachel in the Bible.
 * And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
 * 1)  of biblical origin.
 * 1)  of biblical origin.
 * 1)  of biblical origin.

Translations

 * Albanian: Beniamín, Veniamín
 * Arabic: بِنْيَامِين, بَنْيَامِين
 * Armenian: Բենիամին
 * Belarusian: Веніямі́н
 * Catalan: Benjamí
 * Chechen: Биньямин
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 便雅憫
 * Czech: Benjamín
 * Danish: Benjamin
 * Esperanto: Benjameno
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Βενιαμίν
 * Hawaiian: Beniamina
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Biniáimin
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ベニヤミン
 * Kazakh: Бунямин
 * Latin: Benjamin, Beniamin, Beniāmīnus
 * Malay: Bunyamin
 * Maltese: Benjamin
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Beniàmin
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Benyamini
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: பென்யமீன்
 * Tibetan: བེན་ཡ་མིན།
 * Turkish: Benyamin
 * Ukrainian: Веніями́н, Веніамі́н

 * Albanian: Beniamín, Benijamín, Benjamín,Veniamín
 * Amharic: ቢንያም
 * Arabic: بِنْيَامِين, بَنْيَامِين
 * Armenian: Բենիամին
 * Catalan: Benjamí
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: Benjamín
 * Danish: Benjamin
 * Esperanto: Benjameno
 * Finnish:, Penjami
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: Peniʻamina
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: बेंजामिन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ベンジャミン
 * Korean: 베냐민, 벤자민
 * Latin: Benjamin, Beniamin
 * Latvian: Benjamīns, Bendžamins
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: Бенџамин, Венјамин
 * Malay: Bunyamin
 * Maltese: Benjaminu
 * Maori: Peneāmine, Penamene
 * Norman: Benjamîn
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: Benjamin
 * Russian: ,
 * Sámi: Benjáme
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Бењамин
 * Roman: Benjamin
 * Slovak: Benjamín
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: பென்யமீன்
 * Telugu: బెంజమిన్
 * Turkish: Bünyamin, Benyamin
 * Yiddish: בנימין

Noun

 * 1)  A $100 bill, which bears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin.

Usage notes

 * Often used in the plural form to indicate large sums of money.

Related terms

 * pet forms: Ben, Benji, Benjy, Benny

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Also from.

Proper noun

 * 1) the tribe of Benjamin
 * 1) the tribe of Benjamin
 * 1) the tribe of Benjamin

Proper noun

 * 1)  Biblical figure

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Biblical character, mythological son of Jacob

Etymology
From, from , from.

Usage notes

 * son of Benjamin: Benjaminsson
 * daughter of Benjamin: Benjaminsdóttir

Etymology
From, from , from.

Proper noun

 * 1) Benjamin Biblical figure

Proper noun

 * 1)   Biblical figure

Proper noun

 * 1) Benjamin Biblical figure

Noun

 * 1) youngest child

Proper noun

 * 1) Benjamin Biblical figure

Proper noun

 * 1)  Biblical figure

title: Benjamin


text:
Benny

Etymology 1
.

Etymology 3
From the name of a dull-witted character, Benny Hawkins, in the British soap opera Crossroads.

Noun

 * 1)  A stupid or dull-witted person.
 * 2)  A temper tantrum.
 * 3)  A native of the Falkland Islands.

Etymology 4
From the name of Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait is on the bill.

Noun

 * 1)  A one-hundred-dollar bill.

Etymology 5
.

Proper noun

 * , named after W. W. Benny.
 * , named after W. W. Benny.

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from English; in Scandinavia often associated with Benedict which is traditionally more popular than Benjamin

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from English

title: Benny


text:
Bent

Etymology
Medieval contraction of. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Related terms

 * (feminine forms)
 * (surnames)

Etymology
Attested as bent in 1615. Derived from.

Etymology
From, c. 1400.

title: Bent


text: Benzine

title: Benzine


text:
Benzol

Noun

 * 1) benzene

title: Benzol


text:
Berg

Etymology
From or, either term meaning "hill/mountain".

Proper noun

 * 1) A former duchy and later grand duchy in North Rhine-Westphalia (Western Germany).
 * 2)  common in the US, associated with German or Scandinavian ancestry.
 * 1)  common in the US, associated with German or Scandinavian ancestry.
 * 1)  common in the US, associated with German or Scandinavian ancestry.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Berg is the 712th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 48,746 individuals. Berg is most common among White (94.7%) individuals.

Etymology

 * (Valkenburg aan de Geul) First attested as berga in 1139. Derived from the dative singular form of.
 * (Belgium) Derived from.
 * (Eijsden-Margraten) Derived from.
 * (Peel en Maas) First attested as Berg in 1936. Derived from.
 * (Noord-Brabant) First attested as Berg in 1794. Derived from.

The surname derives from the toponym or from one of the senses of.

Etymology
From, from , itself from , ultimately from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a mountain, hill

Proper noun

 * , as of the composer Alban Berg

Etymology
From.

title: Berg


text:
Bergen

Etymology 1
From, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) A Catholic diocese named after the above see.
 * 1) A Catholic diocese named after the above see.
 * 1) A Catholic diocese named after the above see.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Bergeno
 * Faroese: Bjørgvin
 * French:, Bergue
 * Georgian: ბერგენი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: ベルゲン
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: Bergen, Bjørgvin
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Beirbh, Boirbh
 * Spanish: Bergeno
 * Thai: บาร์เกิน
 * Turkish: Bergen

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Bjørgvin bispedømme
 * Nynorsk: Bjørgvin, Bjørgvin bispedøme

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:

Etymology 2
From, from.

Proper noun

 * , the name survives in.
 * , the name survives in.
 * , the name survives in.
 * , the name survives in.
 * , the name survives in.
 * , the name survives in.
 * , the name survives in.

Translations

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:

Etymology 1
Plural of.

Etymology 2
From, from.

Etymology 3

 * (Limburg) First attested as de barge in 1230. Initially derived from the dative singular form of . The toponym later shifted to the dative plural form of and acquired the meaning settlement at/on the hill.
 * (Noord-Holland) First attested as bergum in 918-948. Derived from the dative plural form of, referring here to a series of dunes.

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology 1
Cognate with 🇨🇬 [cfr. etymology 2], German, etc.

Proper noun

 * 1) The Belgian city Mons, in the former countship Hennegau (and modern Hainaut province)
 * 1) The Belgian city Mons, in the former countship Hennegau (and modern Hainaut province)
 * 1) The Belgian city Mons, in the former countship Hennegau (and modern Hainaut province)

Etymology 2
From, from , cognate with 🇨🇬 [cfr. etymology 1], 🇨🇬, etc.

Etymology
From, from +. The locations outside of Norway, are derived directly from the Norwegian city.

Etymology
From, influenced by German due to the Hanseatic League and eventually replaced the native. From +.

Proper noun

 * , now a part of Hordaland
 * , now a part of Hordaland

title: Bergen


text:
Berk

Etymology

 * As a, , and surname, from a  personal name stemming from . Also see.
 * As a Dutch and north surname, from the word for birch tree, from.
 * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of.

Proper noun

 * 1)  which means "the hardy/strong one"

title: Berk


text:
Berkelium

Noun

 * 1) berkelium

Coordinate terms

 * Previous: . Next:

Noun

 * 1) berkelium

title: Berkelium


text:
Beryl

Proper noun

 * 1)  derived from the gem beryl.

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
, from.

title: Beryl


text:
Beryllium

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) beryllium; the chemical element and alkaline earth metal with the atomic number 4

Noun

 * 1) beryllium

title: Beryllium


text:
Besetzung

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) occupation; invasion (of a country)
 * 2) squat occupation of a building without permission
 * 3)  cast; casting

Usage notes

 * A slight distinction is usually made between Besetzung and   of a country. The former is the act of invading and occupying, while Besatzung is the continued foreign military rule over a certain period of time.

title: Besetzung


text:
Besser

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (1784-1842).

Etymology
surname, from, agent noun from.

title: Besser


text:
Beta

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily;  - tribe

Hyponyms

 * (syn. Beta cicla - cultivated sugarbeet) - type species;  (= ); for other species see.

Proper noun

 * 1) Betamax.

Noun

 * 1) beta (Greek letter)

Pronoun

 * 1) A pronoun which is used by Malay royal sovereigns to refer to themselves.

Etymology
.

title: Beta


text: Beth

title: Beth


text: Betina

title: Betina


text:
Betty

Usage notes

 * A popular given name in the early 20th century, often in the form Betty Lou.

Translations

 * Catalan: Bet
 * Latvian: Betija
 * Maori: Peti
 * Norman: Betté

Noun

 * 1)  A girl who hangs out with skateboarders or surfers.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from

Etymology
.

title: Betty


text:
Bi

Etymology
Short for.

title: Bi


text:
Bianca

Etymology
From, equivalent of 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A moon of Uranus.
 * 1)  A moon of Uranus.
 * 1)  A moon of Uranus.
 * 1)  A moon of Uranus.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 比安卡
 * Danish: Bianca
 * French:, ,
 * German:, Bianka
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 비앙카
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: Bianca
 * Slovak: Bianka
 * Spanish:

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 天衛八
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bianca is the 38640th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 572 individuals. Bianca is most common among White (89.86%) individuals.

Etymology
Recently borrowed from.

Etymology
Recently borrowed from.

Etymology
Recently borrowed from.

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * , b. 2001
 * , b. 2001

Etymology
From, feminine singular form of.

Etymology
From. .

Etymology
Recently borrowed from.

Etymology
Recently borrowed from.

title: Bianca


text:
Bible

Etymology 1
From, from (misinterpreted as a feminine from earlier Latin neuter plural ), from , plural of , originally a diminutive of , from  (from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material).

Old English used (from βιβλιοθήκη) and  (whence English ) for "the Scriptures".

Proper noun

 * 1) The main religious text in Christianity.
 * In my religion class we learn about the Bible, as well as religious texts of other religions.
 * 1) The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.
 * She's Jewish, but she doesn't read the Bible because she's not religious.
 * 1) The analogous holy book of another religion or belief.
 * She's Jewish, but she doesn't read the Bible because she's not religious.
 * 1) The analogous holy book of another religion or belief.

Synonyms

 * Christian Bible, Holy Bible, Good Book, Book, word of life
 * Tanakh, Tanach, Jewish Bible, Hebrew Bible, (loosely) Old Testament
 * bible

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: الإنجيل
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܟܬܒܐ ܩܕܝܫܐ, ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ
 * Armenian: աստվածաշունչ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: Tövrat və İncil, İncil
 * Cyrillic: Төврат вә Инҹил
 * Bashkir: Библия
 * Basque: Biblia
 * Belarusian: бі́блія, Бі́блія, Свято́е Пісьмо́, Свято́е Піса́нне
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: Библи
 * Cherokee: ᎪᏪᎭᎨᏛ
 * Chichewa: baibulo
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 聖經
 * Eastern Min: 聖經
 * Hakka: 聖經
 * Hokkien: 聖經
 * Mandarin:
 * Northern Min: 聖經
 * Wu: 聖經
 * Cornish: Bibel, Beybel
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ބައިބަލް
 * Dinka: Wɛ̈t de Nhialic
 * Dutch:, Schrift
 * Esperanto: Biblio
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: Biblia
 * Faroese: Bíblia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: Biblia
 * Georgian: ბიბლია
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Greenlandic: biibili
 * Gujarati: બાઇબલ
 * Hebrew: ספר הבריתות
 * Hindi:, बाइबल, , किताब-ए-मुक़द्दस
 * Hungarian:
 * Iban: Bup Kudus
 * Icelandic: biblía
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: Bibliä, Raamattu
 * Interlingua: biblia, Biblia
 * Irish: Bíobla
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kashubian: Biblëjô
 * Kazakh: Киелі Кітап
 * Khmer: គម្ពីរគ្រិស្តសាសនា
 * Komi-Permyak: Библия
 * Komi-Zyrian: Библия
 * Konkani: बायबल
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:, библия
 * Ladino: Biblia
 * Lao: ພະຄຳພີ
 * Latin: Biblia
 * Latvian: Bībele
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:, Свето писмо
 * Malay: alkitab, Alkitab, Injil, kitab Injil
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: Bibbja
 * Manx: Yn Vible
 * Maore Comorian: Labiblu, Urongozi wa Mungu
 * Maori: Paipera
 * Marathi: बायबल, ख्रिस्तपुराण
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Nahuatl: huehuetlahtolli
 * Navajo: Diyin God Bizaad
 * Nepali: बाइबल
 * Newar: ख्रिस्ति धर्म
 * Ngazidja Comorian: makalima ya Mngu
 * Norman: Bibl'ye
 * Northern Sami: Biibbal
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: Вївлїꙗ
 * Ossetian: Библи
 * Paiwan: Kai nua Cemas
 * Papiamentu: Beibel
 * Persian: کِتابِ مُقَدَّس,
 * Plautdietsch: Bibel
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਬਾਈਬਲ
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: Bibgia, Bibla
 * Russian:, ,
 * Rwanda-Rundi: Bibiliya
 * Sango: ,
 * Saterland Frisian: Biebel
 * Scottish Gaelic: Bìoball
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Библија, Свето Писмо
 * Roman:, Sveto Pismo
 * Sikaiana: Laumea Tapu
 * Silesian: Biblijo
 * Sindhi: بائبل
 * Sinhalese: බයිබලය
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, Sveto pismo
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: Biblija
 * Upper Sorbian: Biblija
 * Spanish:
 * Sranantongo Gadobuku, Gadowortu
 * Swahili:, Neno la Mungu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Bibliya
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tatar: Библия, библия
 * Telugu: బైబిల్
 * Thai: ,
 * Tigrinya: መጽሓፍ ቅዱስ
 * Tok Pisin: Baibel
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: Injil, Инҗил
 * Ukrainian:, , Святе́ Письмо́, Свяще́нне Писа́ння
 * Urdu:, کِتابِ مُقَدَّس, اِنْجِیل
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: Tavrot va Injil, Таврот ва Инжил,, Muqaddas Kitob
 * Vietnamese:, Thánh Kinh
 * Volapük:
 * Wallisian: Tohi tapu
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: Bibel
 * Western Panjabi: بائبل
 * Yami: seysio
 * Yiddish: ביבל
 * Yoruba: Bíbélì
 * Yup'ik: Qaneryaraq, Qaneryaraqegtaar
 * Zhuang: Swnggingh

 * Estonian: pühakiri
 * Finnish:, pyhä kirja
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:
 * Khmer: គម្ពីរសៃយ

Noun

 * 1) A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.

Alternative forms

 * (specific version or copy): bible

Etymology 2
From a diminutive of the given name.

Proper noun

 * 1) the Bible The Christian holy book; the Old and New Testaments

Etymology
From, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) the Bible The Christian holy book; the Old and New Testaments

Proper noun

 * 1) The Bible The Christian holy book; the Old and New Testaments

title: Bible


text: Biblical

title: Biblical


text:
Bier

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1) beer

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  beer drink

Usage notes

 * Masculine in southern Moselle Franconian, otherwise neuter.

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  a male uncastrated pig; a boar

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from ,.

Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  beer alcoholic beverage fermented from starch material; a serving of this beverage
 * 2)  business, beeswax personal affairs

Usage notes

 * As is common with beverages in German, the unchanged plural can be used after numerals in the sense of “quantities of beer” (glasses, bottles, cans). One may order:
 * The marked plural is used to mean different kinds of beer.
 * The marked plural is used to mean different kinds of beer.

Etymology
, from, from , from , from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) beer

Etymology 1
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bear

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) pear
 * 2) light bulb

Etymology 3
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) berry

Usage notes

 * "Bier" can also mean "nut" or "bonce" (as in head) when used in Luxembourgish slang: i.e.: "wann's de dech net gëss, kriss de eng op d'Bier!" meaning "if you don't behave, you'll be hit in the head!"

Etymology
From, from , from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) beer

title: Bier


text:
Bikini

Etymology
From, the colonial name of the atoll as part of , and this was derived from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  atoll.

Usage notes
While the word, in reference to the swimsuit, usually has just one pronunciation stressed on the second syllable, the English place name has two pronunciations. is the older pronunciation stressed on the first syllable, and is still widely used in English by those most familiar with the atoll. is a newer pronunciation stressed on the second syllable, influenced by the swimsuit term.

Etymology
From, from earlier , the colonial name of the atoll as part of , and this was derived from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  atoll

Etymology 1
.

Etymology 2
, named after the place name, from the French name of the atoll where the United States tested nuclear weapons in July 1946; it was reckoned that the bathing suit would cause as much excitement as an atom bomb. The name itself was originally the w|German colonial name of the atoll as part of, and this was derived from.

Noun

 * 1) a bikini (scanty two-piece swimsuit named after the above-mentioned island)

title: Bikini


text:
Bikpela

Etymology
Capitalization of bikpela.

Noun

 * 1) Lord; the Lord; LORD

title: Bikpela


text:
Bild

Etymology
From, from. The vocalism -i- is regular due to the originally open syllable. The variant Beld may be from an early contraction or due to analogy with words with original -ld, such as.

Noun

 * 1)  image; picture; painting; photo

Usage notes

 * The plural is predominant in Ripuarian, the plural  in Moselle Franconian.

Etymology
From, from , , from.

Noun

 * 1) image; picture; painting; photo optical representation of something
 * 2) image idea or mental concept of something
 * 3)  image

Noun

 * 1) picture, image

Etymology
From, from , , from.

Noun

 * 1) picture, image

Etymology
From, from , , from.

Noun

 * 1) picture, image

title: Bild


text:
Bill

Etymology
Hypocorism of. It is unclear how the initial W became a B; this could have been part of the medieval trend of swapping letters, similar to for.

Translations

 * Arabic: بِيل, بِيل
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: Бил
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: Bill
 * Georgian: ბილ
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Maori: Piri
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: Bill
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: Guille
 * Ukrainian: Білл

Etymology
From. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1895.

title: Bill


text: Billet

title: Billet


text:
Billion

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  trillion

title: Billion


text:
Billy

Etymology
Diminutive and pet-form; see

Proper noun

 * 1)  The B-25 twin-engine bomber aircraft used during World War Two, commonly called the "B-25 Mitchell" in honor of U.S. Army General William "Billy" Mitchell.
 * 2) * 2003 Bradley, James Flyboys. New York: Little, Brown and Company. Ch 7:
 * 3) ** Just then a squadron of "Billys" -- twin-engined B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers -- flew overhead [...].
 * 1) * 2003 Bradley, James Flyboys. New York: Little, Brown and Company. Ch 7:
 * 2) ** Just then a squadron of "Billys" -- twin-engined B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers -- flew overhead [...].

Translations

 * Greek:
 * Russian:

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from English

title: Billy


text:
Bingo

Noun

 * 1) bingo (game)

title: Bingo


text:
Bio

Noun

 * 1)   biology as a school subject

Noun

 * 1) organic products

title: Bio


text:
Bistro

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) bistro

title: Bistro


text:
Bit

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) bit eighth of a dollar
 * 2)  bit binary digit
 * 3)  bit smallest unit of storage
 * 4)  bit datum that may take on one of exactly two values

title: Bit


text:
Bitte

Etymology
Shortening of.

Etymology
Alteration (after the verb ) of obsolete, from , from , from. . Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) request, plea

Etymology
Shortening of.

Etymology
.

title: Bitte


text:
Bitten

Etymology
Diminutive of, , and related names.

title: Bitten


text:
Bière

Proper noun

 * , located in the district of Aubonne.

title: Bière


text:
Björn

Etymology
in the 1930s.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from , with identical meaning in modern Swedish. Runic name revived since 1816. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian.

Usage notes
A common nickname is Björsa.

Related terms

 * (male given names), ,
 * (surnames)

title: Björn


text:
Blackamoor

Etymology 1
From Blakemor (first recorded use in 1210), from +.

Noun

 * 1) * 1601, pronouncement of Queen Elizabeth I in 1601, Staying Power: the History of Black People in Britain, Peter Fryer:
 * highly discontented to understand the great numbers of negars and Blackamoors which (as she is informed) are crept into this realm... who are fostered and relieved [i.e. fed] her to the great annoyance of her own liege people, that want the relief [i.e. food], which those people consume, as also for that the most of them are infidels, having no understanding of Christ or his Gospel.
 * highly discontented to understand the great numbers of negars and Blackamoors which (as she is informed) are crept into this realm... who are fostered and relieved [i.e. fed] her to the great annoyance of her own liege people, that want the relief [i.e. food], which those people consume, as also for that the most of them are infidels, having no understanding of Christ or his Gospel.

title: Blackamoor


text:
Blanc

Noun

 * 1) white person

Proper noun

 * , from the common noun/adjective

title: Blanc


text:
Blanche

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Emanuel Blanche (1824-1908).

Etymology
From. The surname originated as a nickname, or as a matronymic.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: Ꮖ̃ᎴᏅᏥ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 布蘭奇
 * Czech:, Bianka,
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: Bianka, Blanka
 * Hungarian:
 * Inuktitut: ᑉᓛᓐᑦᔅ
 * Italian:
 * Latin: Blanca
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Branca
 * Romanian: Blanca, Bianca
 * Russian: Бланка
 * Slovak: Blanka, Bianka
 * Slovene: Blanka
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Blanchi
 * Swedish: Blanka

title: Blanche


text:
Blanka

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

title: Blanka


text:
Blase

Etymology
A rather rare spelling variant of, from.

Etymology
From, from , from the root of.

Noun

 * 1) bubble
 * 2)  bubble (as in social bubble, internet bubble)
 * 3) blister
 * 4) bladder
 * 1) bladder
 * 1) bladder

title: Blase


text:
Blat

Etymology
Probably from the same root of, meaning “pale, white”. Compare.

Etymology
From (*)blad, northern variant of, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) leaf (of a plant)
 * 2) sheet, leaf (of paper)
 * 3) blade (of a tool)

title: Blat


text:
Blau

Etymology
From the adjective.

Noun

 * 1)  the colour blue (as a whole)
 * 2)  a particular tone of blue
 * 3)  azure; blue in heraldry
 * 4)  a vast blue area, especially:
 * 5) the sky
 * 6) the sea
 * 1) the sea

Etymology
From the adjective.

Noun

 * 1) blue

title: Blau


text:
Blessed

Adjective

 * 1)  An epithet indicating that a person has been beatified.
 * 2)  used when referring to an important figure, such as God, or to an important item or event.

title: Blessed


text:
Blimp

Etymology
From, a comic character created by and first appearing in London's  in April 1934.

Noun

 * 1)  A person considered similar to  in appearance, thought, or expression, particularly  a reactionary middle-class Englishman during the.

Usage notes
Although Low's portrayal of Colonel Blimp was broad and somewhat affectionate, Blimp's muddle-headed thinking and bombastic pronouncements meant that this term was chiefly applied to jingoists and Tories by Labour voters, Socialists, etc.

title: Blimp


text:
Bliss

Proper noun

 * 1)  originating as a nickname.
 * 2)  a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL
 * , named after.
 * 1)  Oklahoma.
 * , named after.
 * 1)  Oklahoma.
 * , named after.
 * 1)  Oklahoma.
 * , named after.
 * 1)  Oklahoma.
 * 1)  Oklahoma.
 * 1)  Oklahoma.

title: Bliss


text:
Blitz

Etymology
Shortened from. The was in truth not a, which is a rapid ground offensive based on superior tank forces. However, the word was current at the time for the successful German campaigns in Poland and France, and was transferred to the attacks on Britain, perhaps by association of with the bombings.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The series of air raids launched on various cities in Great Britain by the German air force in 1940–41 during World War II.

Etymology
From, from , from , whence 🇨🇬 and.

See also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  a bolt of lightning
 * 2)  flash
 * 1)  flash

title: Blitz


text:
Blitzkrieg

Etymology
From, coined in the runup to the Second World War to denote the "lightning fast" military campaigns planned by the German forces.

Noun

 * 1) blitzkrieg

title: Blitzkrieg


text:
Block

Etymology

 * A surname (,  and English), from  and  respectively. As an English surname from the same cognate,.
 * As a Jewish surname, Americanized from . Also see.

Statistics

 * Block is most common among White individuals.

Etymology
From, from. The more common form was originally, from. The variant prevailed in modern German under the reinforcing influence of. All from, from.

The architectural sense is loaned from (and may therefore take a plural in -s).

Noun

 * 1) bloc
 * 2) block thick, roughly cuboid object, e.g. cake of soap, block of ice, wood, etc.
 * 3) block large building or group of such
 * 4) pad (of paper)

Usage notes

 * The normal plural is Blöcke.
 * The plural Blocks is often, but not necessarily, used for sense 3 (“large building”).

title: Block


text:
Blockade

Noun

 * 1) blockade

title: Blockade


text:
Blood

Noun

 * 1) A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.
 * 2) * 2009, DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris, War of the Bloods in My Veins:
 * My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, Dutch and West Frisian, English , Danish and Swedish.

Noun

 * 1) blood

title: Blood


text:
Bloody Mary

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary I of England
 * 2)  A ghost, witch or demonic spirit said to appear in a mirror if her name is chanted repeatedly.

title: Bloody Mary


text:
Bloom

Etymology
English and Jewish surname converged from several origins:

 * , from
 * , see
 * Spelling variant of
 * Spelling variant of

Etymology
From, from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; also compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  flower, blossom
 * 2)  efflorescence
 * 3)  flower
 * 4)  tail, scut (of a hare)
 * 5) nose, bouquet (of a wine)
 * 1)  tail, scut (of a hare)
 * 2) nose, bouquet (of a wine)
 * 1)  tail, scut (of a hare)
 * 2) nose, bouquet (of a wine)

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) flower, bloom

title: Bloom


text:
Blower

Etymology
From, an occupational surname for someone who operated a bellows, or alternatively for someone who blew a horn.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Blower is the 39004th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 565 individuals. Blower is most common among White (95.22%) individuals.

title: Blower


text:
Blowfish

Proper noun

 * 1)  A symmetric block cipher encryption algorithm used in modern cryptographic software, designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993.

Related terms

 * Twofish
 * Threefish

title: Blowfish


text:
Blue

Etymology
surname, Americanized from or its  cognate.

Proper noun

 * 1) . An anglicization of.
 * , typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.
 * 1) A male nickname, occasionally used as a formal given name.  Nickname for a person with ginger hair.

Noun

 * 1) A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.
 * 2)  A member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)

title: Blue


text:
Blues

Etymology
In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of or   and.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
 * 2)  The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore blue.
 * 3) * 2002,, The Age of Justinian..., p. 38:
 * 'Constantinople adopted the follies, though not the virtues of ancient Rome,' wrote, 'and the same factions which had agitated the circus raged with redoubled fury in the Hippodrome.' Gibbon's judgment was that what produced the 'redoubled fury' in the Hippodrome was senseless hooliganism, and even though the Blues and Greens could be politicized upon occasion, they had no coherent aims, religious or political. Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism.
 * 1)  Carlton Football Club.
 * 2)  New South Wales.
 * 3)  Birmingham City FC.
 * 4)  Everton FC.
 * 5)  Chelsea FC.
 * 6)  Manchester City FC.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) blues (musical form)

title: Blues


text:
Blunt

Etymology
Two possible origins:
 * From, a nickname for someone with fair hair or a light complexion.
 * From, a nickname for a stupid person.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Blunt is the 4259th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8326 individuals. Blunt is most common among Black/African American (46.79%) and White (46.13%) individuals.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) blunt (marijuana cigarette)

title: Blunt


text:
Blut

Etymology
From, from , from , from , of uncertain origin.

Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) blood

Usage notes
The plural forms of Blut are almost never used and rather uncommon in the everyday language.

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) blood

title: Blut


text:
Bluter

Etymology
Equivalent to 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) haemophiliac, bleeder patient suffering from haemophilia

title: Bluter


text:
Bo

Etymology 1
Either borrowed from modern or, or a spelling variant of the male given name.

Proper noun

 * 1)  in occasional use since the 1970s.

Etymology
.

Etymology
From, originally a medieval byname.

title: Bo


text:
Boa

Etymology
From.

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily

Hyponyms

 * - sole species

Noun

 * 1) A member of a Bwa-speaking ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬 and, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  bone

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) boa

Etymology 1
From, , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bear

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) drill
 * 2) auger

title: Boa


text:
Bob

Etymology
Probably from a medieval hypocorism of.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.
 * 1)  The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.

Translations

 * Albanian: Bob
 * Amharic: ቦብ
 * Arabic: بُوب
 * Armenian: Բոբ
 * Azerbaijani: Bob
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: Боб
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 巴布
 * Mandarin: 鮑勃, 巴布
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Bob
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Robĉjo
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბობ
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: בוֹב
 * Hindi: बॉब
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Bob
 * Italian: Bob
 * Japanese: ボブ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Latvian: Bobs
 * Macedonian: Боб
 * Malayalam: ബോബ്
 * Mongolian: Боб
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: Beto, Bob
 * Romanian: Bob
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Боб
 * Roman: Bob
 * Sinhalese: බොබ්
 * Slovak: Bob
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Bob
 * Thai: บ็อบ
 * Turkish: Bob
 * Ukrainian: Боб
 * Uzbek: Bob
 * Vietnamese: Bob
 * Welsh: Bob

 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese: Bob

Noun

 * 1) A generic male person.

Synonyms

 * (generic male)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1)   person or system receiving a message

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

title: Bob


text: Bobby

title: Bobby


text:
Bobo

Noun

 * 1) A people indigenous to Burkina Faso, Africa.

title: Bobo


text:
Bock

Etymology 1
From, , from , from. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
 * 2) shoe
 * 3)  an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.
 * 1)  an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.

Etymology 2
From a southern German alteration of, a brewery town in , where the beer originally hails from. The Low German placename suffix was reinterpreted in southern dialects as the plural of  (etymology 1 above). Compare a fuller form still in,.

Noun

 * 1) bock beer

Etymology 1
From, , from , from. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
 * 2)  a stubborn person
 * 3)  a man who is lecherous or sexually active
 * 4)  a blunder, mistake
 * 5)  a seat for a coachman
 * 6)  an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.
 * 1)  a blunder, mistake
 * 2)  a seat for a coachman
 * 3)  an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.

Etymology 2
From a southern German alteration of, a brewery town in , where the beer originally hails from. The Low German placename suffix was reinterpreted in southern dialects as the plural of  (etymology 1 above). Compare a fuller form still in 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) bock beer

Etymology 3
Since the second half of the 20th century and originally belonging to the Rotwelsch cant. , from. Reinforced and perhaps semantically influenced by (etymology 1) in its sexual sense.

Noun

 * 1)  hunger
 * 2)  desire, interest
 * 3)   fun, pleasure
 * 1)   fun, pleasure
 * 1)   fun, pleasure
 * 1)   fun, pleasure
 * 1)   fun, pleasure
 * 1)   fun, pleasure
 * 1)   fun, pleasure

Usage notes

 * The plural is rare but is sometimes used in a jocularly fashion with no change in meaning: Hast du Böcke?

Etymology
From, from , alternative form of (which would have yielded ), from , from.

Noun

 * 1) buck
 * 2) trestle, support
 * 3) box (driver's seat on a coach)

title: Bock


text:
Appendix:Lingua Franca Nova/Bod

Proper noun

 * 1) Tibet

Bod Bod Bod Bod

title: Appendix:Lingua Franca Nova/Bod


text: Boeren

title: Boeren


text:
Bog

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) God

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1) God

Etymology
See.

Proper noun

 * 1) God

title: Bog


text:
Bogart

Etymology
From the surname, derived from , contraction of , from  +. , all from German.

Proper noun

 * , most famously borne by American actor Humphrey Bogart.

Etymology
From, from the surname , derived from , contraction of , from  +.

Proper noun

 * 1) a male nickname

title: Bogart


text:
Bogen

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bow (weapon)
 * 2)  bow (for playing stringed instruments)
 * 3)  arch
 * 4)  curve, arc
 * 5) sheet (of paper)

Usage notes

 * The normal plural is Bögen. This form is marked as southern in many dictionaries, but has now become the predominant form in the northern half of the language area, too.
 * The unchanged plural Bogen is still predominant in some compound words (such as or ), but less common otherwise.

title: Bogen


text:
Bohrium

Noun

 * 1) bohrium

Coordinate terms

 * Previous: . Next:

title: Bohrium


text:
Boiler

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) (tank-type) water heater

title: Boiler


text:
Bois

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Désiré Georges Jean Marie Bois (1856-1946).

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bois is the 29447th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 802 individuals. Bois is most common among White (81.67%) and Black/African American (13.59%) individuals.

title: Bois


text:
Boke

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist  (1913-).

title: Boke


text:
Bokmål

Etymology
Borrowed from. The equivalent 🇨🇬 was used in this sense as a name for Latin, as it was the primary language used for writing of biblical work in much of the Middle Ages. The modern Icelandic name for Norwegian Bokmål is. When dialect research in western Norway was pioneered by in the 1850s,  took on the meaning of written standard language, as opposed to spoken dialects and Aasen's synthesized. The two Norwegian languages, standardized in 1907, changed names in 1929 from to, and from  to.

Proper noun

 * 1) One of the two major written standards of Norwegian, literally meaning “book language”.

Translations

 * Armenian: բուկմոլ
 * Catalan: bokmål
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 巴克摩挪威語,
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ބޯކިމާލު
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: bokmål
 * Georgian: ბუკმოლი
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: Bocmál
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ^보크몰, ^복말
 * Latvian: būkmols
 * Northern Sami: girjedárogiella
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: bokmål
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: bokmal
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1) Bokmål

title: Bokmål


text:
Bologne

Etymology
From, the Roman settlement's name.

title: Bologne


text:
Bolt

Etymology
From, for a maker of bolts, or a nickname for a short and heavy person.

Proper noun

 * , named after an early postmaster.
 * , named after an early postmaster.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bolt is the 4726th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7,504 individuals. Bolt is most common among White (89.3%) and Black/African American (5.5%) individuals.

Noun

 * 1) bed

title: Bolt


text:
Bolus

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist  (1834-1911).

title: Bolus


text:
Bomb

Noun

 * 1)  The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.
 * Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.

title: Bomb


text:
Bombus

Etymology
, from

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily;  - tribe

Hyponyms

 * ,, , , , , , , , , Bombus (Psithyrus), , , , - subgenera
 * (buff-tailed bumblebee, ) - type species;, , , , , , , , , , , , † - other species

title: Bombus


text:
Bonbon

Etymology 1
of Bon, clipped from.

Etymology 2
Ultimately from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) hard candy
 * 2)  sweet, candy in general
 * 1)  sweet, candy in general

Usage notes

 * The word is almost exclusively neuter in northern and central Germany. The masculine is quite common in the south.

Etymology
Possibly from.

title: Bonbon


text:
Bonsai

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) bonsai

title: Bonsai


text:
Bonus

Proper noun

 * 1) A place name:
 * 1) A place name:

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bonus is the 38389th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 577 individuals. Bonus is most common among White (66.9%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (24.96%) individuals.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) bonus premium or advantage
 * 2) rebate
 * 1) rebate
 * 1) rebate

title: Bonus


text:
Bonze

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) bonze Buddhist priest in Japan
 * 2)  self-interested dignitary
 * 3)  capitalist, fat cat; leading figure of the propertied class
 * 4)  rich person; bigwig

title: Bonze


text:
Boo

Etymology 1
From.

Translations

 * Swedish: Boo

Proper noun

 * 1)  The  language.

Etymology
From, from , from.

title: Boo


text: Boogeyman

title: Boogeyman


text:
Boom

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Boudewijn Karel Boom (1903-1980).

Proper noun

 * 1) A Belgian town and municipality in the southwest of the Flemish province of Antwerp.

Etymology
From and.

Noun

 * 1)  tree

Usage notes

 * The inflected forms with -ö- are Ripuarian. The forms with -e- are used in Moselle Franconian dialects that pronounce in the singular; those with -ä- are used in dialects that pronounce.

Etymology
The surname is from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A Belgian town and municipality in the Flemish province of Antwerp.

Etymology
From and.

Noun

 * 1)  tree

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  boom

Alternative forms

 * (plural )
 * (plural )
 * (plural )
 * (plural )

Etymology
From, from ,from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tree

Derived terms

 * (Dracaena)
 * (Dracaena)
 * (Dracaena)
 * (Dracaena)
 * (Dracaena)
 * (Dracaena)
 * (Dracaena)

Etymology
From, with regular Ripuarian-Limburgish monophthongisation.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) tree
 * 2) * 2003, De Bibel, Matäus (Matthew) 7:17:
 * "pdt"

- Jrod soo drajcht een gooda Boom goode Frucht un een schlajchta Boom schlajchte Frucht.

Derived terms

 * (tree trunk, bole)
 * (cotton)
 * (banana)
 * (autumn tree)
 * (pear tree)
 * (cherry tree)
 * (willow)
 * (Christmas tree)

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tree

title: Boom


text:
Boot

Etymology

 * As an English surname, from the noun.
 * As a and  surname, from, compare . Also an occupational surname for a boatman, from.

Etymology
Via, from (compare modern 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) boat
 * 2) * 3 January 1994, “Namen und Nachrichten: 3 656 Kubaner flüchteten 1993”, Berliner Zeitung:
 * "de"
 * 1) * 3 January 1994, “Namen und Nachrichten: 3 656 Kubaner flüchteten 1993”, Berliner Zeitung:
 * "de"

- Wie die Küstenwache in Miami mitteilte, trafen in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten 3 656 Kubaner mit dem Boot in Florida ein, 43 Prozent mehr als 1992.

Usage notes

 * The diminutive is proscribed nowadays and rather rare.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) boat, skiff, yawl

title: Boot


text:
Boots

Proper noun

 * 1) A British pharmacy chain

title: Boots


text:
Bor

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Norman Loftus Bor (1893-1972).

Proper noun

 * 1) One of several villages in Russia
 * 1) One of several villages in Russia

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  wild leek (, syn. Allium porrum)

Noun

 * 1) boron

Coordinate terms

 * Previous: . Next:

Noun

 * 1) boron

Etymology
From Proto-Slavic, , or personal names such as and.

Etymology
From

title: Bor


text:
Bora

Hyponyms

 * - type species

Proper noun

 * 1) A language spoken in Colombia and Peru.

Etymology 2
Various origins:
 * Borrowed from, a surname of unclear origin.
 * Borrowed from, a feminine hypocoristic form of the personal name.
 * Borrowed from, a pet form of or.
 * Borrowed from, a variant of.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bora is the 35812th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 627 individuals. Bora is most common among White (58.05%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (33.17%) individuals.

Etymology
From, possibly related to 🇨🇬 ,.

Etymology
Related to.

title: Bora


text:
Bord

Etymology 1
From, from , from. The modern form and sense is from (inflected bord-), from, also from.

Noun

 * 1) shelf (board fixed to the wall)
 * 2)  bordure

Usage notes

 * The plural is somewhat uncommon and might be avoided.

Etymology 2
From, from , from. Related to or the same as etymology 1.

Noun

 * 1) board (of ship)

Usage notes

 * The plural is rare.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) edge, border

Etymology
From and, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) board

Etymology
, from.

title: Bord


text:
Borg

Etymology 2
From the  franchise, in which the Borg are a cyborg race intent on converting all other life into their own kind; apparently a, from +.

Noun

 * 1)  One who proselytises or assimilates.
 * 2) * 2005:
 * Go for the fun of it (yes, I am one of the Borgs) and don't let equipment bother you. Just remember this even when the Borgs assimilate you.

Verb

 * 1)  To assimilate rivals, via corporate acquisition or religious proselytisation.
 * 2) * 2004:
 * They are trying to turn you into them. They are trying to borg us.
 * 1)  To turn into a cyborg, to implant machinery into people with the intent of controlling or assimilating them.
 * 2) * 2001, Rick C. Hodgin, GeekNews
 * Intel wants to Borg us!
 * 1) * 2001, Rick C. Hodgin, GeekNews
 * Intel wants to Borg us!
 * Intel wants to Borg us!

Usage notes

 * Use of other than the infinitive is rare. Lowercase spelling also occurs, less commonly.

Etymology
From, from. The contemporary vocalism is based on, which may be an old variant with zero-grade (compare 🇨🇬). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) barrow (castrated boar)

Usage notes

 * Borg is a technical term used chiefly by those in contact with farming. Its intelligibility among the general public is limited.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
From.

title: Borg


text: Bork

title: Bork


text:
Born

Etymology
First attested as burne in 1125. Derived from.

See also 🇨🇬.

Etymology
Low and Central German form of with r-metathesis. From northern and. See the same in,.

Noun

 * 1)  well, spring water source

title: Born


text:
Borne

Etymology

 * (Overijssel) First attested as burgunde in 1206. Derived from . Compare, , and.
 * (Noord-Brabant) First attested as borne in 1301. Derived from.

title: Borne


text:
Bos

Etymology
From.

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily

Hyponyms

 * ,, - subgenera
 * †, †, (gayal),  (gaur, gayal), Bos grunniens (yak),  (zebu),  (banteng), †, †, †,  (kouprey),  (cow, bull) - species
 * - obsolete taxa

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  boy, teenager (male)

Noun

 * 1) hurry, rush

title: Bos


text:
Bosh

Proper noun

 * 1)  A surname

title: Bosh


text:
Boson

Noun

 * 1)  boson

title: Boson


text:
Bouillon

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) bouillon

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) bouillon

title: Bouillon


text:
Boulevard

Etymology
Later 18th century, from.

Noun

 * 1) boulevard, avenue, broad street (typically outside the German-speaking countries, especially in France)

title: Boulevard


text:
Bouquet

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bouquet is the 38155th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 581 individuals. Bouquet is most common among White (70.91%) and Black/African American (17.56%) individuals.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) bouquet a bunch of flowers, or rarely an assortment of other ornaments
 * 2)  bouquet heart note of a perfume, scent of a particular wine
 * 1)  bouquet heart note of a perfume, scent of a particular wine
 * 1)  bouquet heart note of a perfume, scent of a particular wine

title: Bouquet


text:
Bourgeoisie

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) bourgeoisie, (upper) middle class

Usage notes

 * is more common and more neutral. Bourgeoisie has a Marxist ring to it.

title: Bourgeoisie


text:
Bowyer

Proper noun

 * 1) An English occupational surname for someone who made bows for archery.

title: Bowyer


text:
Box

Derived terms

 * Box-Muller transform
 * Boxford
 * Boxgrove

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1) box rectangular container;
 * 2)  loudspeaker box-like encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices
 * 3)  a stall for a horse compartment in a stable;
 * 4)  pit area for refueling and repairing

Usage notes

 * With regard to the derived senses 2, 3, and 4, has become a false friend of its English etymon,.

Etymology
Derived from or related to 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) trousers (UK); pants (US)
 * 2) diaper
 * 3) feathers on a chicken's leg

Noun

 * 1) trousers

title: Box


text:
Boxer

Etymology
Named Boxers by the West, since their official title was "The Fist of Righteous Harmony" and their symbol was a clenched fist.

Noun

 * 1)  A Chinese anti-imperial and xenophobic rebel of the early 1900s.

Derived terms

 * Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising
 * Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising

Translations

 * Arabic: مُلَاكَم,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 義和團
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 義和団
 * Korean:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: Nghĩa Hoà Đoàn (義和團)

Noun

 * 1) boxer

title: Boxer


text:
Boy

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) a nickname for one's son

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) bellboy; pageboy
 * 2)  boy
 * 1)  boy

Etymology
From either or both and/or. is a diminutive of.

title: Boy


text:
Brad

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * , also used as a formal given name.

Translations

 * German: Tannenhof
 * Hungarian:
 * Romanian: Brad

Etymology
From.

title: Brad


text:
Brand

Etymology

 * As an English, Scottish, north, , , and surname, from a  personal name derived from , as in the second element of.
 * Also as a German surname, variant of.
 * As a and  surname, from.
 * As a Jewish surname, from 🇨🇬.

Etymology

 * (Limburg) First attested as Op genne Brant in the 18th century. Derived from.
 * (Noord-Brabant) First attested as den Brandt in 1750. Derived from.

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) fire, blaze destructive occurrence
 * 2) hell
 * 3) distillation, brandy
 * 4)  strong thirst
 * 1)  strong thirst
 * 1)  strong thirst
 * 1)  strong thirst

Etymology 2
.

Noun
or

 * 1)  brand

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) fire

title: Brand


text:
Brandy

Proper noun

 * 1)  derived from brandy, an alcoholic liquor. Mostly seen in American usage during the 1970s and 1980s.

title: Brandy


text:
Branko

Etymology
A hypocoristic formed from.

title: Branko


text:
Bratanek

Proper noun

 * 1)   of Slovak origin.

title: Bratanek


text:
Bratwurst

Etymology
From, from. The term originally denoted a sausage made of Brät (🇨🇬), but has come to be used for a sausage that is fried or is suited to being fried. Kluge suggests the modern word might be a conflation of those two etymologies rather than a derivation of only the first one.

Noun

 * 1) a sausage which has been or is suited to be fried or grilled; a bratwurst
 * Zum Abendessen gab es gestern Bratwurst.—“Yesterday there was bratwurst for dinner.”
 * 1)  a smoked sausage, made of raw, which is eaten cold or cooked in water

title: Bratwurst


text:
Braun

Etymology
From. .

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Braun is the 1,012th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 34,491 individuals. Braun is most common among White (94.26%) individuals.

Etymology 1
From the adjective.

Noun

 * 1) brown (color)

Etymology
From the adjective, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) The color brown

Etymology
From.

title: Braun


text:
Bravo

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  Signal flag for the letter B.
 * 2)  UTC+02:00
 * 1)  UTC+02:00

Translations

 * Czech:
 * English: Baker
 * Estonian: Berta
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bravo is the 828th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 41,700 individuals. Bravo is most common among Hispanic/Latino (90.60%) individuals.

Etymology
From. , since respelled to common form.

Proper noun

 * , mostly found in Cebu

Etymology
From. , since respelled to common form.

Proper noun

 * , common in Pangasinan

Etymology
See.

Etymology
., since respelled to common form.

Proper noun

 * , mostly concentrated in Metro Manila and Nueva Ecija

title: Bravo


text:
Brett

Etymology 1
Related to, , and more distantly.

Proper noun

 * 1)  meaning "Breton, an inhabitant of Brittany".

Etymology 2
Short for.

Noun

 * , a yeast genus that is used in brewing some beers, and can also affect the taste of wine.

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  breadth, width

Etymology
From, from , from , from , an e-grade byform of. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) board, plank
 * 2)  energetic, forceful track
 * 1)  energetic, forceful track

Noun

 * 1) board

Etymology
From a British form of.

Proper noun

 * 1) Briton (indigenous person of Britain)
 * 2) * , Manuscript A, year 491
 * "ang"

- Ne wearþ þǣr furðum ān Brett tō lāfe.

 * 1) Breton (inhabitant of Brittany)

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bracket
 * 2) board

title: Brett


text:
Brewer

Noun

 * 1)  A player, supporter or other person connected with Burton Albion Football Club.
 * 2)  A player for the Milwaukee Brewers.

Proper noun

 * 1)  for a brewer of ale.
 * 2) colloquial term for 'Brewer's Phrase and Fable'
 * 1) colloquial term for 'Brewer's Phrase and Fable'

Usage notes

 * Brewster is more common in northern England and in Scotland.

title: Brewer


text:
Bridge

Proper noun

 * 1)  for a bridgekeeper
 * 2)  for someone living near a bridge or at a location called Bridge or Bridges
 * 3)  for someone from
 * 4)  . Recorded as Brige in 1086 (DB), from.
 * , named for a river bridge.
 * 1)  . Recorded as Brige in 1086 (DB), from.
 * , named for a river bridge.
 * , named for a river bridge.

Noun

 * 1) bridge (card game)

title: Bridge


text:
Brief

Etymology
From, from , which is borrowed from , a neuter form of. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (all of them borrowed from Latin) and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) letter (written message)

Noun

 * 1) letter (written message)

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) letter written message
 * 2) package

title: Brief


text:
Bright

Etymology
As an English surname, from the root of. As an Anglicized surname, from  and.

title: Bright


text:
bristols

Etymology
Cockney rhyming slang, from Bristol City (a football team) rhyming with.

Noun

 * 1)  Breasts.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:breasts

title: bristols


text:
Brody

Proper noun

 * , a variant of Brodie.

Translations

 * Belarusian: Бро́ды
 * German: Brody
 * Marathi: ब्रोडी
 * Polish:
 * Russian: Бро́ды
 * Ukrainian:
 * Yiddish: בראָד

Etymology 1
From. Also a shortening of.

title: Brody


text:
Broken

Proper noun

 * 1)  Torres Strait Creole.

title: Broken


text:
Brook

Etymology

 * As an English surname, from the noun.
 * As a north surname, from , related to the above.
 * As a surname, Americanized from, from , also related to the above.
 * As a Jewish and German surname, Americanized from, (from ).

Proper noun

 * 1)  for someone living by a brook.
 * , a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew .

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A marsh; swamp

title: Brook


text:
Brothers

Noun

 * , but may include female individuals

title: Brothers


text:
Brown

Etymology
From, originally a nickname for someone with hair or a dark complexion. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization and translation of. .

Proper noun

 * 1)  of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of.
 * 1)  of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of.
 * 1)  of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of.

Translations

 * Arabic: بْرَاوْن
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: בראון
 * Hindi: ब्राउन
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ^브라운
 * Maori: Parāone
 * Persian: براون
 * Russian:, Бро́ун

 * Afrikaans: de Bruyn, de Bruyns, Bruyn, Bruyns, de Bruin, de Bruins
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: Brun, Bruun
 * Dutch: Bruin, Bruijn, Bruyn, Bruyns, Bruins, de Bruyne, de Bruyn, de Bruin, de Bruine, de Bruijn, de Bruijne
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:, , Brun, Brune, Bruhn
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, Bruni, Brunetti, , Mori, Marrone, , Moretti
 * Norwegian: Brun, Bruun
 * Polish: Brązowski
 * Portuguese: Castanho,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, Bruun

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Brown is the 4th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1,425,470 individuals. Brown is most common among White (58.0%) and Black/African American (35.6%) individuals.

Etymology
.

title: Brown


text:
Brownie

Etymology 1
From. Specifically, inspired by the story "The Brownies" by (published in 1870, The Brownies and Other Tales), in which two children, Tommy and Betty, learn that children can be helpful brownies or lazy boggarts.

Noun

 * 1)  A junior Girl Guide.
 * 2) * 1958 July 14, Boot by a Brash Brownie, LIFE, |%22brownies%22+guides+-intitle:%22brownie|brownies%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qjEMT-nYHcagiQfUv-SQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22brownie%22|%22brownies%22%20guides%20-intitle%3A%22brownie|brownies%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 124,
 * In Toronto young Brownies of the Girl Guides, the Canadian girl scouts, stood in parade formation with full-fledged Guides.
 * 1)  A junior Girl Scout.
 * 2) * 1952 March 24, Girl Scouts: They Are Observing Their 40th Birthday, LIFE, |%22brownies%22+scouts+-intitle:%22brownie|brownies%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nTYMT8mbJKOriAfTjJ3rBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22brownie%22|%22brownies%22%20scouts%20-intitle%3A%22brownie|brownies%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 109,
 * Any girl willing to follow the simple rules can join the Girl Scouts. As Brownies they will spend most of their time playing games and singing songs like the Brownie Smile Song: “I′ve something in my pocket; It belongs across my face, And I keep it very close at hand In a most convenient place.... I′m sure you couldn′t guess it If you guessed a long, long while, So I′ll take it out and put it on—It′s a great big Brownie smile!”
 * 1) * 1952 March 24, Girl Scouts: They Are Observing Their 40th Birthday, LIFE, |%22brownies%22+scouts+-intitle:%22brownie|brownies%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nTYMT8mbJKOriAfTjJ3rBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22brownie%22|%22brownies%22%20scouts%20-intitle%3A%22brownie|brownies%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 109,
 * Any girl willing to follow the simple rules can join the Girl Scouts. As Brownies they will spend most of their time playing games and singing songs like the Brownie Smile Song: “I′ve something in my pocket; It belongs across my face, And I keep it very close at hand In a most convenient place.... I′m sure you couldn′t guess it If you guessed a long, long while, So I′ll take it out and put it on—It′s a great big Brownie smile!”

Translations

 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish: Brídín, Brigín, Donnóg
 * Polish: ,

 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish: Brídín, Brigín, Donnóg

Proper noun

 * 1) A nickname of the surname Brown.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) brownie small rich chocolate cake

title: Brownie


text:
Browning

Etymology
, a patronymic for a person nicknamed. For the first half-century of their manufacturer, the majority of semi-automatic handguns in Europe were designed by John M. Browning.

Proper noun

 * 1) Robert Browning, a poet.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.

Noun

 * 1) A small, semi-automatic European handgun.

title: Browning


text:
Browser

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A browser program

title: Browser


text:
Bruna

Etymology
of the.

Proper noun

 * , feminine form of

Proper noun

 * , feminine form of

title: Bruna


text:
Bruto

Proper noun

 * 1) Brutus

Proper noun

 * 1) Brutus Roman cognomen

title: Bruto


text: Brønnøy

title: Brønnøy


text:
Bu

Etymology
Contraction of Ibu.

Noun

 * 1)  Mrs, Ms, madam
 * 2)  Mum

Noun

 * 1) building, structure, edifice

title: Bu


text:
Bubo

Etymology
From.

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily

Hyponyms

 * (Eurasian eagle owl) - type species;,  (great horned owl),  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  (spotted eagle-owl),  (snowy owl) - other species
 * spp. (eagle-owls and fish owl), spp. (fishing owls) may also be included in genus Bubo.

title: Bubo


text:
Bud

Etymology 1
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) A male nickname.
 * I remember many visits from my uncle Bud.

Etymology 2
From Budweiser.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A Budweiser beer.
 * I'd like a Bud, please.

title: Bud


text:
Budda

Etymology
From past participle of.

Proper noun

 * 1) Buddha

Noun

 * 1) Buddha

Etymology
, from, past participle of.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Buddha

title: Budda


text:
Budget

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) budget

title: Budget


text:
Buffalo

Etymology
Probably from , since both cities are in regions that had wild herds at the time the names originated. Buffalo, New York was named after the Buffalo River, which an alternative etymology says is from, but the more likely explanation is that it was named for the animal.

Proper noun

 * , including:
 * , very near Niagara Falls.
 * , not to be confused with in the same county.
 * , not to be confused with in the same county.
 * , not to be confused with in the same county.
 * , not to be confused with in the same county.
 * , not to be confused with in the same county.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 水牛城
 * Dutch: Buffalo
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: באפלו
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ^버펄로
 * Latin: Bufalum
 * Latvian: Bufalo
 * Lithuanian: Bafalas
 * Macedonian: Бафало
 * Mohawk: Tiotó:ren, Teiohóserare, Tetiohoseró:ken
 * Portuguese: Búfalo, Buffalo
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Бафало
 * Roman: Bafalo
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: Баффало

title: Buffalo


text:
Buffet

Etymology
.

The spelling, preferred at least in Germany, represents the Germanised pronunciation in. Such a pronunciation has established itself in many words like, , etc. In the case of , however, the French pronunciation has widely prevailed, which means that speakers now often pronounce while reading and writing.

Noun

 * 1)  buffet
 * 2)  sideboard, buffet

title: Buffet


text:
Bug

Proper noun

 * 1) A river flowing northwest 450 miles between Belarus and Poland.
 * 2)  (Southern Bug), flowing 530 miles to the Dnieper estuary.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Marathi: बुग
 * Polish:
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1)  A  car.

Noun

 * 1)  A  car.

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

The common contemporary meaning stems via  from, from. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  bow, prow of a ship, nose of an aircraft
 * 2) shoulder joint of an animal
 * 3) joist, joint in woodwork
 * 1) joist, joint in woodwork

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1)  bug

Proper noun

 * 1) Bug rivers in Eastern Europe

Noun

 * 1)  bow, prow of a ship

Etymology 1
. Compare 🇨🇬. .

title: Bug


text:
Bund

Etymology 1
From, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) A waterfront area in central Shanghai.

Etymology 2
From. .

Proper noun

 * 1)  The, a secular Jewish socialist party in the Russian Empire.
 * 2) Any related movements in other countries, such as the still-existing Australian Bund, etc.

Etymology
From the verb.

Noun

 * 1)  alliance, federation, league
 * 2)  covenant
 * 3)  fret (of a guitar)
 * 4) waistband
 * 1) waistband

Noun

 * 1) bunch

Noun

 * 1)  confederation of German states

title: Bund


text:
Bungalow

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) bungalow in German mainly used for bungalows with a flat roof

title: Bungalow


text:
Bunting

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist R.H. Bunting (fl. 1923).

Etymology
From, a nickname for someone who resembled the songbird.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Bunting is the 4072nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8725 individuals. Bunting is most common among White (86.21%) individuals.

title: Bunting


text:
Bureau

Proper noun

 * 1) A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Louis Édouard Bureau (1830-1918).

title: Bureau


text:
Burger

Noun

 * 1) A white wine grape of French origin.
 * 1) A white wine grape of French origin.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
, from, from (of the city Hamburg).

Pronunciation

 * While is usually pronounced in the German fashion,  is not common for.
 * While is usually pronounced in the German fashion,  is not common for.

Noun

 * 1) A burger; a hamburger, cheeseburger, or similar American-style sandwich.

title: Burger


text:
Burgundy

Etymology
From, from , from , from. .

Burgundy (wine) is an abbreviation of the attributive use of the regional name, in.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Boergondië
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: Borgoina
 * Bulgarian: Бургу́ндия
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Corsican: Burgogna
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, Burgund
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Burgonjo
 * Finnish: ,
 * Franco-Provençal: Borgogne
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: Borgogne
 * Georgian: ბურგუნდია, ბურგონი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Burgúin
 * Italian: Borgogna
 * Japanese: ブルゴーニュ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: Burgundija
 * Manx: Burgoon
 * Norman: Bourgouongne
 * Norwegian: Burgund
 * Occitan: Borgonha
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, Burgúndia
 * Romanian: Burgundia
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Бургундија, Бургоња
 * Roman:, Burgonja
 * Sicilian: Burgogna
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: Burgund, Bourgogne
 * Turkish: Burgonya
 * Ukrainian: Бургу́ндія
 * Welsh: Bwrgwyn
 * West Frisian: Boergonje
 * Yiddish: בורגונדי

 * Danish: Burgund
 * Finnish:
 * Swedish: Burgund

Noun

 * 1) A variety of red wine from this region.
 * 2) A variety of wine resembling that of Burgundy; especially from Australia or California.
 * 1) A variety of wine resembling that of Burgundy; especially from Australia or California.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Danish: bourgogne, bourgognevin
 * Finnish: burgundinviini, bourgogneviini
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბურგუნდიული ღვინო
 * German:
 * Irish: fíon Burgúine, burgúin
 * Polish:
 * Swedish: ,

title: Burgundy


text:
Burka

Etymology

 * see for more.

Noun

 * 1) burka (garment, worn by Muslim women, that covers the entire body)
 * 2) burka (cloak, especially of felt or karakul, worn by men of the Caucasus region)

title: Burka


text:
Burke

Etymology
From an pronunciation of.

Proper noun

 * 1)  for someone who lived in a fortified place.
 * , named after.
 * , named after Edmund Burke.
 * 1) The, , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after Edmund Burke.
 * 1) The, , named after.
 * , named after Edmund Burke.
 * 1) The, , named after.
 * , named after Edmund Burke.
 * 1) The, , named after.

Etymology 1
From Baltic German, from a Baltic language or Estonian (compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) a glass container

Etymology 2
From the same source as Burka.

Noun

 * 1) a burka, a coat or veil worn by peoples in the Caucasus region
 * 2) * 1905 July 13, Globus: Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde, volume 88, number 2, page 25:
 * "de"

- Von anderen Gebräuchen sei noch angeführt, daß die Osseten oftmals dem Verstorbenen ein Pferd, eine Burke (Filzrotunde) und andere Reiterutensilien weihen und das Pferd dreimal um das Grab herumführen.

title: Burke


text:
Bush

Etymology
Either the family name for those who live near a bush or a thicket of bushes, or the family name for those living at or near a bush (in the archaic sense of wine merchant or tavern).

Proper noun

 * , 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993
 * , 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009
 * , 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009
 * , 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009

Translations

 * Arabic: بُوش
 * Armenian: Բուշ
 * Azerbaijani: Buş
 * Belarusian: Буш
 * Bulgarian: Буш
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 布殊
 * Mandarin: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბუში
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: בוש
 * Hindi: बुश
 * Italian: Bush
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: Bušs
 * Macedonian: Буш
 * Old Church Slavonic: Боушъ
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: Bush
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: Буш
 * Thai: บุช
 * Ukrainian: Буш
 * Urdu: بش
 * Vietnamese: Bu-sơ

Etymology
.

title: Bush


text:
Butch

Proper noun

 * 1) A male nickname

title: Butch


text:
Butler

Etymology

 * From.
 * From.
 * From the surname

Proper noun

 * , for someone who was a butler or wine servant.
 * 1)  of similar derivation.
 * 2) A placename:
 * 3) A location in the United States of America:
 * 4) A location in Canada
 * 5) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Canada
 * 2) A location in Australia:
 * 1) A location in Australia:

Derived terms

 * Butler Mons
 * Butler Mons

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) A butler, chief male servant, majordomo

title: Butler


text:
Butter

Etymology
Various origins:
 * From, a metonymic occupational surname for a dairyman or seller of butter.
 * From, a nickname for someone who resembled a bittern, perhaps because of his voice.
 * Borrowed from and, possibly a short form of various compound names.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Butter is the 39164th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 562 individuals. Butter is most common among White (72.95%) and Black/African American (10.14%) individuals.

Etymology
From, , from , from.

Though originally feminine, the word became masculine throughout Upper German and in southern dialects of West Central German. The now established feminine gender is East Central German, reinforced by.

Noun
or

 * 1) butter

Usage notes

 * In the formal standard language, is exclusively feminine. Masculine use is sometimes adopted from local dialects into colloquial German, especially in Swabia.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) butter

title: Butter


text:
Byte

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  byte binary data unit of eight bits

title: Byte


text:
Bär

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , conventionally taken to be a taboo-avoidance term derived from the word for "brown".

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bear animal
 * 2) bear someone or something bear-like, e.g. a sturdy man

Usage notes

 * is a weak noun in the standard language, but is part of a group of nouns which have certain tendency to be of mixed declension in general usage, so one will often hear or read e.g. instead of, especially colloquially.

Hyponyms
(bear)

(bear-like)

Noun

 * 1) large block or hammer for machining things or pile-driving

Etymology 2
From, from , from , whence also 🇨🇬. Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not related to (which see).

Noun

 * 1)  boar
 * 2) * 1873, Archiv für practische Rechts-Wissenschaft aus dem Gebiete des Civilrechts, des Civilprozesses und des Criminalrechts: mit namentlicher Rücksicht auf Gerichtsaussprüche und Gesetzgebung, page 19, Feststellung des Begriffs der in Rede stehenden Verpflichtung:
 * "de"
 * 1) * 1873, Archiv für practische Rechts-Wissenschaft aus dem Gebiete des Civilrechts, des Civilprozesses und des Criminalrechts: mit namentlicher Rücksicht auf Gerichtsaussprüche und Gesetzgebung, page 19, Feststellung des Begriffs der in Rede stehenden Verpflichtung:
 * "de"

- zu Münsterliederbach nach einem Weisthum von 1366, ein Stier, ein Eber und ein Widder, daselbst S. 36,

 * "de"

- zu Burghasungen bei Kassel ein Ochse, daselbst,

 * "de"

- zu Böddiger in Niederhessen ein Ochse und ein Eber (Bär), daselbst und Heuser, Annalen Bd. VII. S. 321 ff.,

 * 1) * 1877, Johann Evangelista Haselmayer, Handbuch der Orthographie nach den Berliner Konferenzbeschlüssen mit einem tunlichst vollständigen Wörterbüchlein, page 18:
 * "de"

- Ebenbaum, der, Laubbaum in Ostindien.

 * "de"

- Eber, der, Bär, Keiler ( lat. aper );

 * 1) * 1890, J[ohann] Siebmacher's Grosses und allgemeines Wappenbuch, § Dachs (Tafel XII. Fig. 29. 30.), page 87:
 * "de"

- Letzteres Wappen [v. Dachsperg] erinnert sehr an der v. d. Berswordt in Westfalen und Schweinichen in Schlesien und kann bei schlechter oder undeutlicher Zeichnung leicht mit jenem verwechselt werden, obwohl, dem Namen entsprechend, das Thier dort sicherlich ein Eber („Bär“), resp. Schwein ist.

title: Bär


text:
Böse

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) evil, malice, wickedness
 * 2) anger

Noun

 * 1) the Evil One
 * 2) bad guy, baddie
 * 3) bad boy

title: Böse


text:
Bůh

Proper noun

 * 1) God (the single god of monotheism)

title: Bůh