biche

• IPA^(key): /biʃ/

• Audio; “une biche”:

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Inherited from Middle French biche, from Old French biche (“doe, female deer”) and bisse (“wild animal”), of uncertain origin and relation. The form bisse is almost certainly from Vulgar Latin bīstia, variant of Latin bēstia (compare bête); however, the contemporary biche is an enigma, and possibly unrelated. It may be the Picard or Norman form of bisse, (compare chent for cent) or may share origin with Middle French bique (“nanny-goat”), believed to be derived from Proto-Germanic *bik (“goat”) or perhaps related to Icelandic bikkja (“old mare, nag”). More at bouc.

biche f (plural biches)

1. doe, hind
   1. (Canada, Métis) wapiti (elk)
2. darling, sweetheart (affectionate name for one's girlfriend)
3. cutie

• pied-de-biche (“crowbar”)

Inflected forms.

biche

1. inflection of bicher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “biche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

biche f

1. plural of bica

biche

1. alternative form of bicche

• bich (Sark)

From Anglo-Norman biche (“bitch, female dog, doe, hind”), from Middle English bicche (“bitch”). Cognate with French bique (“female goat, horse, old woman”), Icelandic bikkja (“mare, nag”), English bitch.

• Audio (Jersey):

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biche f (plural biches)

1. (Jersey) goat
2. (Jersey) drunk woman

• trop-pliein (“drunk man”)

• bichot (“billy goat”)
• bichette (“female kid”)

biche oblique singular, f (oblique plural biches, nominative singular biche, nominative plural biches)

1. alternative form of bisse

biche

1. inflection of bichar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Proto-Somaloid *biče (“water”). Cognate with Somali biyo, Arbore biče, Daasanach bie, El Molo bɛčɛ', Baiso beke, Oromo bishaan, Khonso pishaa.

• IPA^(key): /bit͡ɕˈe/, [bɪɕˈɛ]

biché m (plural bicheyó)

1. water

• Günther Schlee, Karaba Sahado, Rendille Proverbs in their Social and Legal Context (2002), page 92: biche
• Günther Schlee, Some open problems of Rendille grammar (1978), page 64: biche
• Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, volume 10, page 199: bice
• Harold C Fleming, Baiso and Rendille: Somali Outliers, page 71: biče'
• Hans-Jürgen Sasse, The Consonant Phonèmes of Proto-East Cushitic (PEC), A First Approximation, Afroasiatic Linguistics, volume 7, issue 1 (1979)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbit͡ʃe/ [ˈbi.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -itʃe
• Syllabification: bi‧che

biche m (plural biches)

1. alternative spelling of viche

• “biche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024