bies

See also: Bies, BIEs, bieś, biés, and Bieś

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch biese, from Old Dutch *biesa, from Proto-West Germanic *beusu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bis/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: bies
  • Rhymes: -is

Noun

bies f (plural biezen, diminutive biesje n)

  1. A bulrush, club-rush; any of various plants from the genera Scirpus, Schoenoplectus or Bolboschoenus, particularly Schoenoplectus
  2. piping (on a seam)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: bis

East Central German

Etymology

Compare German böse.

Adjective

bies

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) evil, malicious
  2. (Erzgebirgisch) bad, naughty
  3. (Erzgebirgisch) angry
    Bisste bies?
    Are you angry?

Further reading

  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:

Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪːs/

Etymology 1

Root
b-w-s
6 terms

From Arabic بَاسَ (bāsa).

Verb

bies (imperfect jbus, past participle mibjus, verbal noun bews)

  1. to kiss
Conjugation
    Conjugation of bies
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m bist bist bies bisna bistu biesu
f bieset
imperfect m nbus tbus jbus nbusu tbusu jbusu
f tbus
imperative bus busu

Etymology 2

From Arabic بَاز (bāz).

Noun

bies m (plural bisien or bjies or ibies or ibsa)

  1. peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
    Synonym: bies prim
  2. Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo)
    Synonyms: bies sekond, falkett
  3. flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans)
    Synonyms: falkun, rondinella, garnaw, ħamiema, pixxi seqer
Derived terms

Old Irish

Verb

bies

  1. Alternative form of bias

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish bies, in turn borrowed from Old Ruthenian бѣсъ (běs),[1] from Proto-Slavic *bě̑sъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *baiˀsás (someone frightening), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoyh₂-dʰh₁-so-s, from the root *bʰeyh₂- (to fear). Cognate to Lithuanian baĩsas.

Expected native form *bias is attested in toponym Biasowice.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bjɛs/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛs
  • Syllabification: bies

Noun

bies m animal (augmentative biesisko)

  1. devil, demon, evil spirit
    Synonyms: czart, czort, diabeł, kaduk, licho

Declension

adjective
verb

References

  1. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “bies”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 28

Further reading

  • bies in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bies in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “bies”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bies n (Cyrillic spelling биес)

  1. Obsolete spelling of bijes

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French biais.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbjes/ [ˈbjes]
  • Rhymes: -es
  • Syllabification: bies

Noun

bies m (plural bieses)

  1. (textiles) bias

Derived terms

Further reading

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