bae

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bae"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɪ/, enPR: bā

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophone: bay

Etymology 1

From babe or baby by shortening. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from “Before Anyone Else”, a possible backronym.

Noun

bae (plural baes)

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

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

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

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

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

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

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:bae.

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

Derived terms

• baeless

Etymology 2

From Korean 배 (bae).

Noun

bae (plural baes)

1. Asian pear.

Etymology 3

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

Verb

bae (third-person singular simple present baes, present participle -ing, simple past and past participle -ed)

1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
   • c. 1608, Shakespeare, William, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, lines 10:

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

Anagrams

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

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Bislama

Particle

bae

1. Alternative form of bambae

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Pijin

Etymology

From English by and by

Particle

bae

1. Future tense marker

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Welsh

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bae m (plural baeau)

1. bay

Verb

bae

1. Alternative form of bai

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bae	fae	mae	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Zhuang

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Verb

bae (old orthography bə, Sawndip forms 丕, 批, 䢙, 贝, 𫨰, 悲)

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

Derived terms

• baema

 

Particle

bae (old orthography bə, Sawndip forms 丕, 批, 䢙, 贝, 𫨰, 悲)

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

Etymology 2

From Chinese 批 (pī).

Verb

bae (old orthography bə, Sawndip forms 批)

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