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Bey

//bæɪ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    Beyoncé.
Noun
  1. 1
    A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman) dominions. historical

    "She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess."

  2. 2
    the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire wordnet
  3. 3
    in various other places, a prince or nobleman
  4. 4
    (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey, “gentleman, chief”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.

Etymology 2

* As a north German and Dutch surname, variant of Beye, Baye, vowel variants of the Danish surname Boye. * Also as a German surname, Germanized from Lower Sorbian baj (“storyteller”), from Proto-Slavic *bajь, related to *bajati (“to tell”). Compare Bay. * As a French surname, from several placenames in France, from a regional variant of bief (“mill-race”). * As an Islamic surname (generally Algeria), from Turkish bey (see Beg). See also Pasha, Agha.

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