b'

• IPA^(key): /bˠ/ (before (fh)a, (fh)á, (fh)o, (fh)ó, (fh)u, (fh)ú)
• IPA^(key): /bʲ/ (before (fh)e, (fh)é, (fh)i, (fh)í)

b’

1. Apocopic form of ba

   B’fhearr liom cupán tae.

   I’d prefer a cup of tea.

• This form is used before words beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel, except not before the pronouns é, ea, í, iad.

• b’fhéidir

• bi (before a consonant cluster)
• imb (in fixed expressions)

From Arabic بِ (bi).

• IPA^(key): /b/ (before a vowel, sonorant, or voiced obstruent)
• IPA^(key): /p/ (before a voiceless obstruent)

b’

1. with (chiefly an ingredient, means, concomitant, quality)

   Antonym: bla

2. times, (multiplied) by

   erbgħa b’erbgħa jiġu sittax ― four times four equals sixteen

   għamel erbgħa b’erbgħa ― multiply four by four

Inflected forms of b’
Personal-pronoun- including forms		singular		plural
		m	f
1st person		bija		bina
2nd person		bik		bikom
3rd person		bih	biha	bihom
Definite forms
Xemxin				Qamrin
biċ- · bid- · bin- bir- · bis- · bit- · bix- · biz- · biż-				†bil- †form is bl- before a vowel, h, or għ

• IPA^(key): /p-/
• Hyphenation: b'

b'

1. Form of bu used before vowels and fh-

• Colin Mark (2003) “bu”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96

Influenced by Irish b'.

b'

1. Apocopic form of ba (“to be”)
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 86:

     Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naame wode b' zung,

     If we had any luck, our name would have been sung

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:

     Our eein wode b' mistern t' dearnt up ee skee.

     Our eyes would be dazzled to look up to the sky.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86