bez

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bez (plural bezes)

1. The second tine of an antler's beam.

• bezantler

• IPA^(key): /biːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophone: bees

bez

1. (nonstandard, dialectal) first-person plural simple present of be

   Synonym: (standard) are

   • 2007 October 20, NiggydaHoe, “Re: 79yr old Nigger Idiot was suspended for racist bullshit”, in alt.music.white-power‎ (Usenet):

     We bez run to 'da good bad white man. He gonna fire 'da ova bad white man.
     If 'da bad white man cain't sayz be^[sic] niggas bez stupid in 'da heaad, wif' low
     iq an' shit, 'dat mus' mean we bez humans.

2. (nonstandard, dialectal) third-person plural simple present of be

   Synonym: (standard) are

   • 1860, The Knickerbacker‎, volume 56, Peabody, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 434:

     'They bez goin' like der Tyfel,'

   • 2007 June 13, Mustapha Mond, “Re: Nigger Apologists: Slaves Who Died at Sea Being Honored”, in comp.sys.mac.apps‎ (Usenet):

     >>>>>>> " […] They are not rotting someplace in hell, they bez right
     >>>>>>> here
     >>>>>>> whining wif us."

• wuz

• Zeb

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bez f (plural bezes)

1. a time
2. occasion

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “bez”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

bez

1. instrumental indefinite of be

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛs]

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Inherited from Old Czech bez, from Proto-Slavic *bъzъ, *bъza, *bъzina, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

bez m inan

1. elderberry (shrub or tree)

Inherited from Old Czech bez, from Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰs.

bez (+ genitive case)

1. without

   Antonym: s

• bez in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• bez in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• bez in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *beź. Cognates include Latvian bez and Lithuanian be.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbʲɛs]
• Hyphenation: bez

bez (+ genitive)

1. without
2. (when telling time) to

   Bez desmit deveni. ― Ten to nine (8:50).

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 71

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *beź. Cognates include Latgalian bez and Lithuanian be.

bez (with genitive)

1. without
2. in addition to
3. apart from

• bez-

• IPA^(key): (isolated) /bɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: bez

Inherited from Old Polish bez, from Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *beź, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰs.

bez

1. without, lacking [+genitive]

   Antonym: z

   Proszę o kawę bez mleka. ― A coffee with no milk, please.

• beze

Inherited from Old Polish bez, from Proto-Slavic *bъzъ, *bъza, *bъzina, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

bez m inan

1. elder (bush of genus Sambucus)
2. lilac (bush of genus Syringa)

   Synonym: lilak

   pachnieć bzem ― to smell of lilac

From bez, due to confusion with the rhyming preposition przez. The two words were and are used interchangeably in various dialects, and in Old Polish przez was about to replace bez around the 14th-15th century. In the written language the earlier distinction ultimately prevailed, however.[1]

bez

1. (Poznań, Upper Silesia) because of [+accusative]

   Synonym: z powodu

2. (dialectal) across, through [+accusative]

   Synonym: przez

   • 2000, Aneta Majkowska, Polszczyzna mówiona mieszkańców Częstochowy, page 185:

     Nie tu szosą tylko drogą polną bez pola my jechali z chłopem sąsiadki.

     We drove through the fields with the neighbor's man, not on the paved road, but on a dirt road.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bez

1. genitive plural of beza

• bez in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bez in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic без (bez), from Proto-Slavic *bez.

bez

1. (dated) without

From Proto-Slavic *bez. Compare bez- and bes-.

• (regional): brez, prȅz, preza

bèz (Cyrillic spelling бѐз) (+ genitive case)

1. without, excluding, not counting

   bez sumnje ― without a doubt

   ostati bez nečega ― to lose something, to run out of something, (literally: to stay without something)

   bez obzira na.. ― regardless of.., no matter what..is

   bez kraja i konca ― endlessly, without end

   ne bez razloga ― not without a reason

   bez srca ― heartlessly, without a heart

   bez r(ij)eči ― without a word, speechless

   biti bez nečega ― to be lacking in, to be deficient in, to lack (literally: to be without something)

• bez-, bes-

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بز‎ (bez), from Arabic بَزّ‎ (bazz). Akin to bezistan, bezli, besofra and bespara.

• IPA^(key): /bêz/

bȅz m (Cyrillic spelling бе̏з)

1. linen, canvas
2. (specifically) a type of cotton-made linen or canvas used in Oriental costumes, of several possible forms: ćereće, sedeluk, kafez or kafez-bez, melez, harir, šejtanbez and harirbez.

• “bez” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “bez” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 140

• bezo (only in connection with mňa)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛs/

bez (+ genitive)

1. without

   Antonyms: s, so

• bez in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

bez

1. awl

From Ottoman Turkish بز‎ (bez); see there for more. The ultimate origin is Arabic بَزّ‎ (bazz), however, an influence from Byzantine Greek βύσσος (bússos) has been postulated in order to explain the mismatch in the vowels.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbez/
• Hyphenation: bez

bez (definite accusative bezi, plural bezler)

1. cloth

From Ottoman Turkish بز‎ (bez), from Proto-Turkic *beŕ.

Cognate with Kazakh без (bez, “gland”), Karachay-Balkar без (bez, “gland”), Southern Altai бес (bes, “gland”), Uzbek bez (“gland”), Uyghur بەز‎ (bez, “gland”), Turkmen mäz (“gland”), Bashkir биҙ (bið, “gland”), Tuvan бес (bes, “gland”), Chuvash пар (par, “gland”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbez/
• Hyphenation: bez

bez (definite accusative bezi, plural bezler)

1. (anatomy) gland