بيس

See also: بئس‎, بئش‎, بیس‎, پیش‎, and تیس‎

Arabic

Verb

بِيسَ • (bīsa) (form I)

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of بَاسَ‎ (bāsa)

Ternate

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbe.sa]

Noun

بيس (Rumi besa)

  1. rain
    ‏بيس فوفراي‎ ― besa fofurai ― a drizzle, a drizzling rain

Verb

بيس (Rumi besa)

  1. to rain

References
  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yemeni Arabic

Etymology

Plural of Arabic بيسة‎ (“the smallest copper coin”), from an Indian language (compare पैसा (paisā)) likely via Persian.

Noun

بْيَس (byas) (plural)

  1. (Tihamah, Aden) money

See also
  • روبية‎ (rūbya, “money (Tihamah, obsolete)”)
  • زلط‎ (zalaṭ, “money (Sanʿa)”)
  • عدي‎ (ʕaddī, “money (Haḍramawt)”)
  • بقش‎ (bugaš, “money”)
  • قروش‎ (gurūš, “money”)
  • فلوس‎ (fulūs, filūs, “money”)
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