baja — (kwo) ring, ringing
Me audi-te baja pa dwar. — I heard a ring at the door.
bajika — (kwo) doorbell, buzzer
Hindi
bak — (komo) 1) back (in space or time), backwards
Go avan, bu go bak. — Go ahead, don't go back.
Mata wud yao ke suy kindas lai bak a ela. — The mother would like her children to come back to her.
Gai pon bak olo ke yu pren. — You should put back everything that you take.
al bakdao — on the way back
bakmuvi — move back
dai bak — give back
Treba mah kloka un ora bak. — One should set the clock one hour back.
2) ago
dwa yar bak — two years ago
Gro-longtaim bak ye rega. — Once upon a time (long ago) there lived a king.
baken — (konekti-komo) behind (at what place?) baken dom — behind the house
Me bu vidi surya nau: it es baken badal. — Now I don't see the sun: it is behind the cloud.
Wen me lai a shulin, me bu dumi om problema. Me lyu li oli baken in urba. — When coming to the forest, I do not think about problems. I leave them all behind in the town.
May kloka es pet minuta baken. — My watch is 5 minutes slow.
fon baken dom — from behind the house
bake — (kwel) rear, back, hind
bakpatas — hind paws
fa-lifti on bakgambas — rear, prance baka — (kwo)the back (backside, reverse side, or area behind)(also “baktaraf”)
bakra — (kwo) goat
gin-bakra (bakrina) — female goat
man-bakra (bakro) — male goat
Hindi
bakshish — (kwo) baksheesh
See also: rishvat
Persian
bartan — (kwo) household vessel; tableware
woshi bartan — wash the dishes
bartanlemar — (kwo) dresser (cupboard or set of shelves for dishes or kitchen utensils) Hindi
basta — (komo) enough
nu hev basta pan — we have enough bread
sauna bu es haishi basta garme — it is not yet hot enough in the sauna (exklami)that will do! enough!
Basta! Me bu yao audi nixa om to. — Enough of that! I do not want to hear anything about it.
See also: sufi-shem
baston — (kwo) staff, stick; crosier
basu — (kwo) bass (low sound)
shwo pa basu — speak/say in low voice
basu-ney — (kwel) bass
basu-ney vos — bass voice
bat — (unisi)but Me hev kitaba bat me bu yao lekti. — I have the book but I don't want to read.
bati — (zwo) beat (hit or strike repeatedly)
bater — (kwo) bat (club); beater
(cf. “darbi”)
baum — (kwo) tree
German
bavul — (kwo) suitcase
Turkish
bay — (konekti) 1) by, with, by means of (a means or tool) skribi bay kalam — write with a pencil
lai bay avion — come by airplane
bay forsa — by force
bay to ke yu zwo — by what you do
ofensi bay bu shwo danke — to offend by not thanking
2) by (doer or author) se es zwo-ney bay me — this is done by me
kitaba bay Mark Twen — book by Mark Twain
baya — (kwo) bay (nautical)
bayan — (kwo) bayan, button accordion
bayanista — (kwo) bayan player
beda — (kwo) misfortune, distress, trouble, disaster (cf. "disasta")
Russian
bedlam — (kwo) bedlam
beduin — (kwo) bedouin
begin — (zwo) begin, commence
Nu begin ba! — Let’s begin!
beginsa — (kwo) beginning
in beginsa — at the beginning
beginsa-ney — (kwel) initial, original
ribegin — (zwo) recommence Syn.: starti
begun — (zwo) work, process, treat
begun data — process data
begunsa — (kwo) processing, treatment, working
Origin: be+gun
Beizing — (kwo) Beijing
beje — (kwel) beige
bekon — (kwo) bacon
Japanese
Belarus — (kwo) Belarus
belaruska — (kwel, kwo) Belarusian; Belarusian language
Belau — (kwo) Palau
Belgie — (kwo) Belgium
belka — (kwo) squirrel
Russian
belta — (kwo) belt (band)
piga belta — leather belt
bemol — (kwo) flat (mus.)
dwabemol — double flat
bencha — (kwo) bench; pew
Bengal-ney halich — (kwo) Bay of Bengal
Bengaluru — (kwo) Bangalore
bensin — (kwo) benzine, petrol, gasoline
bensin-stasion — (kwo) gas station
Faroese
bereta — (kwo) beret
beri — (kwo) berry
Hindi
beril — (kwo) beryl
berilyum — (kwo) beryllium (chem.)
Bering-ney mar — (kwo) Bering Sea
Bering-ney martanga — (kwo) Bering Strait
berkelyum — (kwo) berkelium (chem.)
Bermuda — (kwo) Bermudas
berna — (kwo) bear
bes — (kwo) devil (as a half-animal creature, not Satan, not the chief one)
See also: diabla
Russian
beton — (kwo) concrete (building material)
Indonesian
bey — (kwo) back (the rear of body); backrest
stula-bey — back of chair
stan al bey versu koywan — stand with one's back to smb
beybao — (kwo) rucksack
Mandarin
Bharat — India (also "India")
bharat-arya-ney — (kwel) Indo-Aryan
bharat-europike — (kwel) Indo-European
bharat-iranike — (kwel) Indo-Iranian
bi — (zwo) be (is — es, was — bin, will be — ve bi) Gai bi honeste. — One should be honest.
Bi hao! — 1) You are welcome! (a reply to thanking); 2) Bless you! (after smb's sneezing); 3) Good luck! (when parting) bia — (kwo) being
bifoo — (konekti) before (in space or time) bifoo dom — before the house
bifoo festa — before the holiday
bifoo ke lu en-somni — before he fell asleep
bifoo olo — first of all
Woshi handas bifoo chifan! — Wash your hands before eating!
En-stan ba bifoo me. — Stand up before me!
bifoo-ney — (kwel) former, previous, one-time
pa bifoo-ney taim — once, in former times
bifoo-dey, bifoo-aksham — eve
bifoovati — (zwo) anticipate, act before
bifooen — (taim-komo) formerly, previously, before
Laojen oftem shwo ke bifooen olo bin pyu hao kem nau. — Old people often say that formerly everything was better than now.
Bifooen nu jivi in otre urba. — Previously we lived in another town.
pa bifooen — in advance, beforehand
biftek — (kwo) beefsteak
Arabic
bigari — (zwo) spoil
bigara — (kwo) spoiling, spoilage
Hindi
bigle — (kwel) squint-eyed, cross-eyed
bigla — (kwo) squint-eyed person
bigli — (kwo) squint (suffer from strabismus; look sideways or askance)
bikam — (zwo) become
Ob yu yao bikam leker? — Do you want to become a physician?
Lu bikam-te fama-ney kway. — He quickly became famous.
Sun ela bikam mata. — She will become a mother soon.
bikini — (kwo) bikini
bikos — (unisi)because
bil — (kwo) bill, invoice
bildi — (zwo) build
bildi dom — build a house
bilda, bilding — (kwo) building (act)
bildura — (kwo) building (structure)
bildilok — (kwo) building site
bileta — (kwo) ticket
biliar — (kwo) billiards
Kurdish
bilion — (kwo) trillion, a million millions, 1012
bin — was, were (past tense from "bi") Me bin dar pluri ves. — I have been there several times.
bli — (konekti-komo) near, nearby, beside, close to
bli may dom — near my house
bli klok char — around 4 o'clock
Ela zai sidi-te bli. — She was sitting beside.
bli-ney — (kwel) near, nearby, neighbouring
bliwan — (kwo) neighbour, fellow human
See also: sirke
blik — (kwo) catchlight, flare (reflection of light)
Russian
borda — (kwo) border (outer edge; frontier), brink; edge; board (of ship)
pa borda de abisma — at the brink of the abyss
bay pamaborda — with edge of one’s hand lingwa borda inter jenmin — language borders between peoples stata borda — the state border
fule til borda — full to the brim
mucho jen on borda — many people on board
bordi — (zwo) border (on), adjoin
bordi-she — (kwel) adjoining, next, adjacent