به

From Arabic بَاء‎ (bāʔ).

به • (beh) f

1. The name of the second letter of the Arabic alphabet (ب).

• IPA^(key): /bah/
• Rhymes: -bah, -ah

From Proto-Malayic *bah, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *bah, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *bah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *bahaq.

• bah

به (Rumi spelling bah‎, plural به٢‎)

1. flood (overflow of water)

• banjir / بنجير‎

Shortened form of ابه‎, from Proto-Malayic *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.

• abah
• aba
• bah
• ابه‎
• اب‎

به (Rumi spelling bah‎)

1. Alternative form of ابه‎

Shortened form of بابه‎, from بابا‎, variant of باڤ‎.

• bapa
• baba
• babah
• bah
• bapanda
• bapai
• bapak
• bapang
• papa
• باڤ‎
• بابا‎
• بابه‎
• باڤندا‎
• باڤاي‎
• باڤق‎
• باڤڠ‎
• ڤاڤ‎

به (Rumi spelling bah‎)

1. Alternative form of bapa

Abbreviation of بهاس‎, from Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā, “language”).

• bahasa
• بهاس‎
• bahasa

به (Rumi spelling bah‎)

1. Abbreviation of بهاس‎.

Shortened form of باوه‎, from Proto-Malayic *babah, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *babah, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *babah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaq, from Proto-Austronesian *babaq.

• bawah
• bah
• باوه‎

به (Rumi spelling bah‎)

1. Alternative form of باوه‎

• IPA^(key): /ba/

به • (ba)

1. will (indicating future action)

From Middle Persian 𐭯𐭥𐭭‎ (pʿn) / PWN (pad, “to, at, in, on”), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎫𐎡𐎹 (patiy), from Proto-Iranian *pati-.

• Rhymes: -e

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /ba/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ba/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /be/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /ba/

به • (be)

1. expresses the indirect object: to; for
2. expresses movement to a place: to; towards; into
3. indicates the language of a text, speech, etc.: in

   ‏به فارسی‎

   be fârsi

   in Persian

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “pad”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 62

From Middle Persian [script needed] (byh /bēh/, “quince”).

• بهی‎ (behi)
• بی‎ (beyy) (in Isfahani dialect)

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /bih/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /bɪh/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /beh/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /beh/

به • (beh)

1. quince

• → Avar: бигь (bih)
• → Georgian: ბია (bia)
  • → Abkhaz: а-биа (a-bja)
  • → Laz: ბიჲა (biya) – Chkhala
  • → Mingrelian: ბია (bia)
  • → Ossetian: биа (bia) – Digor
• → Lak: бигь (bih)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “bēh”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 18

From Middle Persian [Term?] ŠPYL / wyh (weh, “better, good”), from Old Persian 𐎺𐎢 (vahu, “good”), from Proto-Iranian *Hwáhuš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwásuš, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus (“good”). Related to Old Armenian վեհ (veh, “sublime”), an Iranian borrowing.

به • (beh)

1. (archaic) good, excellent
2. (archaic) better
3. (archaic) elegant
4. (archaic) safe, sound

• (good): خوب‎ (xub)
• (better): بهتر‎ (behtar)

• به‌آفرید‎ (behâfarid)
• بهتر‎ (behtar)
• بهدین‎ (behdin)
• بهشهر‎ (behšahr)
• بهینه‎ (behine)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “به”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “weh”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 89