bae
English
Pronunciation
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)
- (slang) Darling (term of endearment).
- 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:
- And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You[sic] better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.
- 2014, Laken Howard, "Pillow Talk: Let's talk about V-day", The Current (entertainment insert of The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University), 13 February 2014, page 3:
- Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”
- 2014, "How Steamy Is Your PDA?", Seventeen, June/July 2014, page 98:
- A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bae.
- Synonyms: babe, baby, darling, dear, love, sweetheart, loved one, significant other, special someone
- 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
bae (plural baes)
Etymology 3
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French baier, abaier.
Verb
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- (intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, line 10:
- He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.
Anagrams
Bislama
Particle
bae
- Alternative form of bambae
Marshallese
Pronunciation
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [pˠɑːɛ], (enunciated) [pˠɑ ɛ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /pˠæɰjɛj/
- Bender phonemes: {bahyey}
Etymology 1
Noun
bae
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 307: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Ratak" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. bamboo
Synonyms
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from English pie, from Middle English pye, pie, probably from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests).
Noun
bae
- a pie
References
Pijin
Etymology
Particle
bae
- Future tense marker
Welsh
Pronunciation
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 307: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "cy-S" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /bai̯/
Noun
bae m (plural baeau)
Verb
bae
- Alternative form of bai
Mutation
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
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 (pǎi), Aiton ပႝ (pay), Bouyei bail.
Verb
bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)
- 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
Particle
bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)
- Used after a verb to indicate removal of an object.
Etymology 2
Verb
bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)
Etymology 3
Compare Cantonese 批 (pai1, “to plaster”).
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Verb
bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)
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