بيس

بِيسَ • (bīsa) (form I)

1. third-person masculine singular past passive of بَاسَ (bāsa)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbe.sa]

بيس (Rumi besa)

1. rain

   بيس فوفراي ― besa fofurai ― a drizzle, a drizzling rain

بيس (Rumi besa)

1. to rain

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Plural of Arabic بيسة (“the smallest copper coin”), from an Indian language (compare पैसा (paisā)) likely via Persian.

بْيَس (byas) (plural)

1. (Tihamah, Aden) money

• روبية (rūbya, “money (Tihamah, obsolete)”)
• زلط (zalaṭ, “money (Sanʿa)”)
• عدي (ʕaddī, “money (Haḍramawt)”)
• بقش (bugaš, “money”)
• قروش (gurūš, “money”)
• فلوس (fulūs, filūs, “money”)