बे bē

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

How to read the transliteration

This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919	On this site
c	ch
ś	śh
ṣ	ṣh
r̥	r̥i

A few reading pointers:

ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

ب · ar · n.

Earlier definition

Definition

The second letter of the Urdū or Hindūstānī (and of the Persian and Arabic) alphabet.
(Bābā) The second thing to remember: inheritance.

Usual translation

beta

Origin of the definition

H ب be; ब ba ; The second letter of the Urdū or Hindūstānī (and of the Persian and Arabic) alphabet, and the twenty-third consonant of the Nāgarī alphabet, — the third of the labial class. (It is sounded like our b; and when used numerically according to the abjad (q.v.), it stands for two. By way of abbreviation it is occasionally written for the Arabic month rajab, of which word it is the first letter. In words from the Sanskrit, ba is commonly substituted for va or wa; and, generally speaking, v or w is liable to be changed to b, e.g. aber for aver; seb for sew. It is also interchangeable with m and p, e.g. baur = maul; narbadā = narmadā; bādshāh = pādshāh): — ba-kār, s.m. The letter or sound b.

बे. The second one; Inheritance.