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Definition: BEGAT |
BEGAT1. Of Beget |
Date "BEGAT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: BEGAT |
| Etymologies containing "BEGAT": Beget. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BEGAT" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "BEGAT" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 72.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
begat | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BEGAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | kelt (begotten, cause, given, leavened, to arouse, to beget, to call forth, to create, to disgust, to restart). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | egatbay | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 11, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ezhsen falek ekaton triakonta eth kai egennhsen ton ragau |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vixit quoque Faleg triginta annis et genuit Reu |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Phaleth forsothe lyuede thritti wynter, and gat Reu; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Peleg when he was .xxx. yere olde begat Regu |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 11, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ug nakadangat si Peleg ug katloan ka tuig, ug nanganak siya kang Reu. |
| Croatian | Kad je Pelegu bilo trideset godina, rodi mu se Reu. |
| Dutch | En Peleg leefde dertig jaren, en hij gewon Rehu. |
| Finnish | Kun Peleg oli kolmenkymmenen vuoden vanha, syntyi hänelle Regu. |
| French | Péleg, âgé de trente ans, engendra Rehu. |
| German | Peleg war dreißig Jahre alt und zeugte Regu |
| Haitian Creole | Pelèg te gen trantan lè li fè yon pitit gason yo rele Reou. |
| Hungarian | Péleg pedig harmincz esztendõs vala, és nemzé Réut. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Peleg hidup tiga puluh tahun, lalu beranak Rehu. |
| Maori | A ka toru tekau nga tau o Pereke, ka whanau a Reu: |
| Norwegian | Da Peleg var tretti år gammel, fikk han sønnen Re'u. |
| Portuguese | Pelegue viveu trinta anos, e gerou a Reú. |
| Rumanian | La vkrsta de treizeci de ani, Peleg a nqscut pe Reu. |
| Russian | жБМЕЛ ЦЙМ ФТЙÐ"Ð"БФШ МЕФ Й ТПÐ"ЙМ тБЗБЧБ. |
| Swedish | När Peleg var trettio år gammal, födde han Regu. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"BEGAT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baget, bayat, beag, Beatt, begad, begal, begate, begats, begetr, beggeth, begi, begint, Begio, begit, Begob, begod, begote, Benat, Bengate, berat, Berget, besat, Biga, Bigah, bigat, biget, Biggate, bigit, Bitat, Blegvad, buga, Bugar, buget, egat, fegat, regat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BEGAT" (pronounced biga"t) |
| 3 | -g a" t | Gat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-t" | |
-1 letter: abet, bate, beat, beta, gate, geta. | |
-2 letters: age, ate, bag, bat, beg, bet, eat, eta, gab, gae, gat, get, tab, tae, tag, tea, teg. | |
-3 letters: ab, ae, ag, at, ba, be, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-t" | |
+1 letter: baguet. | |
+2 letters: baguets, banteng, beating, gabfest, getable, globate, megabit. | |
+3 letters: abetting, ablegate, abnegate, abrogate, absterge, agitable, baggiest, baguette, bantengs, barghest, barguest, beatings, berating, bergamot, betaking, bijugate, bleating, braggest, bregmata, bregmate, cabotage, debating, gabbiest, gabfests, gettable, gigabyte, glabrate, globated, gustable, megabits, megabyte, obligate, rebating, sabotage, subagent, substage, tabering, tangible. | |
+4 letters: ablegates, abnegated, abnegates, abnegator, abrogated, abrogates, absenting, absterged, absterges, arbitrage, backstage, bagatelle, baguettes, bantering, barghests, barguests, bartering, basseting, battening, battering, beastings, benignant, bergamots, betraying, braggiest, breasting, breathing, budgetary, cabotages, carpetbag, cogitable, eggbeater, eightball, fatigable, geobotany, getatable, gigabytes, grabbiest, grantable, grubstake, gustables, ignitable, litigable, litterbag, megabytes, objurgate, obligated, obligates, rabbeting, rebaiting, sabotaged, sabotages, stageable, subagents, subjugate, subrogate, substages, tableting, tangibles, vegetable, vegetably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 47 41 54 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . --. .- - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01000111 01000001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E G A T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0047 0041 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3639413554 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Bible Trace 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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