beha

Letter-pronunciation of bh, abbreviation of bustehouder.

• IPA^(key): /beːˈɦaː/

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• Hyphenation: be‧ha
• Rhymes: -aː

beha m (plural beha's, diminutive behaatje n)

1. a bra

• bh
• bustehouder

• → Aukan: beiha
• → Indonesian: beha

• BH (initialism)

Borrowed from Dutch beha, bustehouder (“bra”, literally “bust holder”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbeha/ [ˈbe.ha]
• Rhymes: -eha
• Syllabification: be‧ha

beha (plural beha-beha)

1. (colloquial) bra

   Synonyms: anak baju (Malay), baju dalam (Malay), bra, kutang, coli

• “beha”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Proto-Oceanic *bʷeka.

• IPA^(key): /beɣa/

beha

1. flying fox

• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
• M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2011), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎^[1], volume 4: Animals, Australian National University, →ISBN