بيس

See also: بئس, بئش, بیس, پیش, and تیس

Arabic

Verb

بِيسَ • (bīsa) (form I) /biː.sa/

1. third-person masculine singular past passive of بَاسَ (bāsa)

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbe.sa]

Noun

بيس (Rumi besa)

1. rain

   بيس فوفراي ― besa fofurai ― a drizzle, a drizzling rain

Verb

بيس (Rumi besa)

1. to rain

References

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yemeni Arabic

Etymology

Plural of Arabic بيسة (“the smallest copper coin”), from an Indian language (compare पैसा (paisā)) likely via Persian.

Noun

بْيَس (byas) (plural)

1. (Tihamah, Aden) money

See also

• روبية (rūbya, “money (Tihamah, obsolete)”)
• زلط (zalaṭ, “money (Sanʿa)”)
• عدي (ʕaddī, “money (Haḍramawt)”)
• بقش (bugaš, “money”)
• قروش (gurūš, “money”)
• فلوس (fulūs, filūs, “money”)