bae
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bae"
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From babe or baby by shortening.
Noun[edit]
bae (plural baes)
- (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.
- 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
bae (plural baes)
Etymology 4[edit]
From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.
Verb[edit]
bae (third-person singular simple present baes, present participle -ing, simple past and past participle -ed)
- (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[edit]
Bislama[edit]
Particle[edit]
bae
- Alternative form of bambae
Pijin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Particle[edit]
bae
- Future tense marker
Welsh[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /baːɨ̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /bai̯/
Noun[edit]
bae m (plural baeau)
Verb[edit]
bae
- Alternative form of bai
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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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. |
Zhuang[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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[edit]
bae (old orthography bə, Sawndip forms 丕, 批, 䢙, 贝, 𫨰, 悲)
- to go
- to walk
- to operate; to run
- to spend; to use
- to remove; to get rid of
- to be lost (from one's possession)
- (of a liquid) to lose; to leak (gas)
- (of a firearm) to go off accidentally; to discharge accidentally
- to deviate
- (euphemistic) to pass away
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from bae
Particle[edit]
bae (old orthography bə, Sawndip forms 丕, 批, 䢙, 贝, 𫨰, 悲)
- Used after a verb to indicate removal of an object.
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
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