baie

• baieng (dialectal)
• baing (obsolete)

From Low German bannig (“very”), likely combining the influence of the unrelated Malay banyak (“many; very”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑjə/

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baie

1. very, much

   Haar baas is baie lelik.

   Her boss is very ugly.

baie

1. (with positive polarity, when not modified by adverbs) many, much, a lot of

   Daar is baie besoekers op die mark.

   There are many visitors at the market.

   Sy koop baie tydskrifte in die kiosk.

   She is buying a lot of magazines at the news stand.

   In die winter stroom baie water die vlei in.

   A lot of water is flowing into the valley in winter.

• veel (less common, more or less in complementary distribution)

baie

1. (with positive polarity, when not modified by adverbs) a lot, much

   Ons het baie gehad om te bespreek.

   We had a lot to discuss.

• veel (less common, more or less in complementary distribution)

• IPA^(key): /bɛ/, (position-rule accent) /be/
• (Meridional French) IPA^(key): /be/

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Inherited from Latin baca.

baie f (plural baies)

1. (botany) berry

• → Catalan: baia
• → Spanish: baya

Uncertain; probably from Late Latin baia, ultimately from Iberian.

baie f (plural baies)

1. bay, bight (body of water)

• → Spanish: bahía (see there for further descendants)

Inherited from Latin badia.

baie

1. feminine singular of bai

From bayer.

• baye ((verbal forms only))

baie

1. inflection of bayer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

baie f (plural baies)

1. bay window

• baie vitrée

• “baie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.je/
• Rhymes: -aje
• Hyphenation: bà‧ie

baie f pl

1. feminine plural of baio

baie f

1. plural of baia

• beai

Uncertain; probably from Late Latin baia.

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baie f (plural baies)

1. (Jersey, geography) bay

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaje/

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Ultimately from Latin ba(l)neum, via the plural ba(l)nea.

The stressed a in Romanian is inconsistent with râie, tămâie < Latin arānea, *thȳmānea. Hence baie may have been borrowed from Proto-Slavic *baňa; compare etymology 2 below (via Hungarian). Note also the consistent masculine gender of inherited reflexes of Latin balneum such as Italian bagno, French bain, etc.

baie f (plural băi)

1. bathroom
2. bath (act of bathing), bathtub

• îmbăia

• closet

• “baie”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Borrowed from Hungarian bánya, from Proto-Slavic *baňa.

baie f (plural băi)

1. (Transylvania, Moldavia (region), Banat) mine, quarry