- (zwo) fight, battle |

batala - (kwo) fight, battle |

handa-batala - hand-to-hand fighting |

batalakin - (kwo) skirmish

- (kwo) battalion

- (kwo) battery |

Arabic

- (kwo) sweet potato

- (zwo) beat (hit or strike repeatedly) |

bater - (kwo) bat (club); beater |

(cf. "darbi")

- (kwo) tree |

German

- (kwo) suitcase |

Turkish

- (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

- (kwo) bay (nautical)

- (kwo) bayonet

- (kwo) baby |

bebi gari - perambulator, baby carriage

- (kwo) misfortune, distress, trouble, disaster (cf. "disasta") |

Russian

- (kwo) bedlam

- (kwo) bedouin

- (zwo) begin, commence |

Nu begin ba! - Let's begin! |

beginsa - (kwo) beginning |

in beginsa - at the beginning |

ribegin - (zwo) recommence |

Syn.: starti

- (kwel) beige

- (kwo) bacon |

Japanese

- (kwo) squirrel |

Russian

- (kwo) belt (band) |

piga belta - leather belt

- (kwo) bench; pew

- (kwo) benzine, petrol, gasoline |

Faroese

- (kwo) beret

- (kwo) berry |

Hindi

- (kwo) bear

- (kwo) devil (as a half-animal creature, not Satan, not the chief one) |

See also: diabla |

Russian

- (kwo) baseball

- (kwo) beast |

bestialik - (kwel) bestial, brutish |

Syn.: animal

- (kwo) concrete (building material) |

Indonesian

- (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

- (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

- (zwo) despise, disdain, disparage, scorn |

bicha - (kwo) contempt, scorn, disdain |

Mandarin

- (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 |

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

- (kwo) beefsteak |

Arabic

- (zwo) spoil |

bigara - (kwo) spoiling, spoilage |

Hindi

- (kwo) hair-roller |

French

- (kwo) beak |

biki - (zwo) peck |

bika - (kwo) peck |

biking - (kwo) pecking

- (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.

- (kwo) bikini

- (unisi) because

- (kwo) bill, invoice

- (zwo) build |

bildi dom - build a house |

bilda, bilding - (kwo) building (act) |

bildura - (kwo) building (structure) |

bildilok - (kwo) building site

- (kwo) ticket

- (kwo) billiards |

Kurdish

- (kwo) billion, a million millions

- was, were (past tense from "bi") |

Me bin dar pluri ves. - I have been there several times.

- (kwo) biology |

biologike - (kwel) biological |

biologier - (kwo) biologist

- (kwo) beer |

biraguan - (kwo) beerhouse |

Arabic

- (kwo) birch |

German

- (kwo) bicycle (also "baik")

- (kwo) biscuit, cookie |

Tagalog

- (kwo) business (commercial activity) |

Indonesian

- (kwo) bit (computing)

- (kwo) bitumen |

Turkish

- (kwo) blade (of a knife, sword; of an oar, propeller)

- (kwel) blessed, connected with God's grace; beneficial |

blagitaa - (kwo) grace (religion); beneficence |

Russian

- (zwo) blame, condemn, censure |

blama - (kwo) blame, censure |

(cf. "shatami")

- (kwel) white |

blantaa - whiteness

- (zwo) bless |

blesa - (kwo) blessing, benediction

- (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 |

See also: sirke

- (kwo) catchlight, flare (reflection of light) |

Russian

- (kwo) pancake |

Russian

- (kwel) blind |

blinditaa - (kwo) blindness |

blinda - (kwo) a blind person |

blindisi - (zwo) blind; dazzle |

blindisi-she - (kwel) blinding

- (kwel) close, near, nearby |

blisem - (komo) closely |

blisitaa - (kwo) closeness, nearness, proximity; affinity |

blisejen - (kwo) one's near and dear |

blislok - hereabouts |

blisifi (fa-blise) - (zwo) approach, come closer |

blisifi a koysa - approach smth, come close to smth |

blisisi (mah-blise) - (zwo) draw/bring nearer |

blisi - (zwo) approach/bring nearer |

Russian

- (kwo) lightning

- (kwo) blog

- (kwo) block; unit (a part of a mechanism)

- (zwo) block, blockade |

fa-bloki - (zwo) become blocked; get stuck |

debloki - (zwo) unblock, deblock

- (kwel) blue |

blutaa - (kwo) blue |

klarblu - (kwel) light blue, sky blue

- (kwo) blouse

- (kwo) boa