بیس

Cognate with Tibetan བཞེས (bzhes).^[1]

بیس (byis)

1. (honorific) to eat
2. (honorific) to drink
3. (honorific) to smoke

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• Tone class: H(L)
• IPA^(key): /béːs/

بیس (bēs) f

1. kiss

• Baart, Joan L. G. (1997), “bēs”, in The sounds and tones of Kalam Kohistani: with wordlist and texts (Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan; 1)‎^[1], National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University; Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 81

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀻𑀲 (vīsa), from Sanskrit विं॒श॒ति (viṃśatí).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /biːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

بِیس • (bīs) (Hindi spelling बीस) (cardinal)

1. twenty

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “بِيس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 319
• Platts, John T. (1884), “بيس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 209
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “بيس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 140
• “بیس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “بیس”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 348
• “بیس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.