"b" meaning in Norwegian Bokmål

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Character

IPA: /beː/ [letter, name], /b/ [phoneme] Audio: Nb-be.ogg Forms: B [uppercase]
Rhymes: -eː Etymology: Modification of the capital letter B by dropping its upper loop, from Latin B, from Etruscan 𐌁 (b, “be”), from Ancient Greek Β (B, “beta”), from the Phoenician 𐤁 (b, “bet”), from Proto-Canaanite , from Proto-Sinaitic , from Egyptian 𓉐, representing the plan of a house. Etymology templates: {{der|nb|la|B}} Latin B, {{der|nb|ett|𐌁||be}} Etruscan 𐌁 (b, “be”), {{der|nb|grc|Β||beta}} Ancient Greek Β (B, “beta”), {{der|nb|phn|𐤁||bet}} Phoenician 𐤁 (b, “bet”), {{der|nb|egy|𓉐}} Egyptian 𓉐 Head templates: {{head|nb|letter|upper case|B}} b (upper case B)
  1. The second letter of the Norwegian Bokmål alphabet, written in the Latin script. Tags: letter
    Sense id: en-b-nb-character-RxX~MTvO
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: B

Noun

IPA: /beː/ [letter, name], /b/ [phoneme] Audio: Nb-be.ogg Forms: b-en [definite, singular], b-er [indefinite, plural], b-ene [definite, plural]
Rhymes: -eː Etymology: Modification of the capital letter B by dropping its upper loop, from Latin B, from Etruscan 𐌁 (b, “be”), from Ancient Greek Β (B, “beta”), from the Phoenician 𐤁 (b, “bet”), from Proto-Canaanite , from Proto-Sinaitic , from Egyptian 𓉐, representing the plan of a house. Etymology templates: {{der|nb|la|B}} Latin B, {{der|nb|ett|𐌁||be}} Etruscan 𐌁 (b, “be”), {{der|nb|grc|Β||beta}} Ancient Greek Β (B, “beta”), {{der|nb|phn|𐤁||bet}} Phoenician 𐤁 (b, “bet”), {{der|nb|egy|𓉐}} Egyptian 𓉐
  1. the letter b, the second letter of the Norwegian alphabet Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-b-nb-noun-g8ej0Clc
  2. (music) the tone h lowered by half a step Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-b-nb-noun-jri9ftx5 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  3. (music) a B-flat (sign indicating that the following note is to be lowered by half a step) Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-b-nb-noun-AzsJ3y7X Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  4. (physics) symbol for bar (“bar”) Tags: alt-of, masculine, symbol Alternative form of: bar (extra: bar) Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-b-nb-noun-FX8NjSLM Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: B

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for b meaning in Norwegian Bokmål (5.8kB)

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          "bar",
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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.