BE or be may refer to:

Linguistics

  • Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
  • be (interjection), in several languages
  • Be languages or Ong Be, a pair of languages of northern Hainan province, China
  • Belarusian language, ISO 639-1 code: be
  • Black English, or African-American Vernacular English, an English dialect
  • British English, abbr. BE, usually used in contrast to AE (American English)
  • To be, the English copular verb

Music

Albums

  • Be (Beady Eye album), 2013
  • Be (Casiopea album), 1998
  • Be (Common album), 2005
  • BE (Pain of Salvation album), 2004
  • BE (Original Stage Production), a 2005 live album by Pain of Salvation
  • Be (BTS album), 2020

Songs

  • "Be", a song by Neil Diamond from the 1973 soundtrack Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • "Be", a song by Jessica Simpson from In This Skin
  • "Be", a song by Lenny Kravitz from Let Love Rule
  • "Be", a song by Slade from Whatever Happened to Slade

Organisations

  • Be Inc., a former US software company (1990–2001) and developer of the Be Operating System (BeOS)
  • Be Unlimited, a former UK Internet service provider (2003–2014)
  • Badminton Europe, the governing body of badminton in Europe
  • British Eventing, the British governing body for the equestrian sport of eventing
  • BearingPoint (former stock ticker symbol BE)
  • or Left Bloc, a Portuguese political party
  • Bob Evans Restaurants, an American restaurant chain

Places

  • Bè, a neighborhood in Togo
  • Belgium (ISO 3166-1 and FIPS 10-4 country code: BE)
  • Berlin, a state of Germany (ISO 3166 code: DE-BE)
  • Bermuda (World Meteorological Organization territory code: BE)
  • Canton of Bern, a canton of Switzerland (ISO 3166 code: CH-BE)

Science and technology

  • Base excess (BE), excess or deficit in the amount of base in the blood
  • Beryllium, symbol Be, a chemical element

Computing

  • .be, the country code top-level domain for Belgium
  • Backup Exec, backup and recovery software from Veritas Software
  • Big-endian, a system that stores the most significant byte of a word at the smallest memory address
  • BeOS, an operating system by Be

Physics

  • Baumé scale (°Bé), a density scale
  • Be star, in astronomy, a B-type star
  • Bejan number (Be), in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics

Transportation

  • BE Be Electric, Electric Car Manufacturing Company
  • Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Company (B&E), US
  • Beriev (design office prefix: Be), a Russian aircraft manufacturer
  • Blue Engines (prefix: BE), the rocket engines from Blue Origin
  • BE, then IATA code of Flybe (2022–2023), former English airline
  • BE, then IATA code of Flybe (1979–2020), former English airline
  • BE, then IATA code of British European Airways (1946–1974), former British airline
  • BE, Indian Railways station code of Bareilly Junction railway station, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Lampung (vehicle registration prefix BE)

Other uses

  • Bé (footballer), Portuguese footballer
  • Bachelor of Engineering, an academic degree
  • Bahá'í Era, in timekeeping
  • Buddhist Era, in timekeeping

See also

  • B (disambiguation)
  • Bay (disambiguation)
  • BBE (disambiguation)
  • Bebe (disambiguation)
  • Bee (disambiguation)