बे

Borrowed from Classical Persian ب (be).

बे • (be) ? (Urdu spelling ب)

1. be (name of the second letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet).

Borrowed from Gujarati બે (bě). Doublet of दोन (don).

• IPA^(key): /be/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: बे

बे • (be)

1. two

   बे अठें सोळा ― be aṭhẽ soḷā ― Two times eight equals sixteen.

Chiefly used when multiplying by two.

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “dva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 380