Beatles

See also: beatles

English

The Beatles

Etymology

Originally spelled Beatals, punningly referencing the expression beat all (“surpass everything”), then later altered to Beatles, blend of beat +‎ beetles, with beat referring to "beat music" or the "beat" of a drum, and beetles inspired by the contemporaneous band name The Crickets.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːtəlz/, [ˈbɪi̯tʰəlz] ~ [ˈbɪi̯tʰl̩z]
  • (t-flapping) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːɾəlz/, [ˈbɪi̯ɾəlz] ~ [ˈbɪi̯ɾl̩z]

    • Audio (US):

      (file)

• (t-glottalization) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːʔəlz/, [ˈbɪi̯ʔəlz] ~ [ˈbɪi̯ʔl̩z]
• Hyphenation: Beat‧les
• Homophone: beetles

Proper noun

the Beatles pl (plural only)

1. An extremely successful and influential British rock music quartet that operated primarily in the 1960s.

   Synonym: Fab Four

   Meronym: Beatles

   • 2023, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Sofia Coppola, Priscilla, spoken by Elvis (Jacob Elordi):

     Don't tell me to play goddamn Beatles in my house. We're in America, I swear to God.

Derived terms

• Beatle
• Beatle boot
• Beatle cut
• Beatledom
• Beatlehead
• Beatle-ish
• Beatle-less
• Beatlelike
• Beatlemania, Beatlesmania
• Beatlemaniac
• Beatleness
• Beatles-like
• Beatlesque
• Beatley
• big as the Beatles
• pre-Beatles
• the Fifth Beatle

Translations

rock music quartet

• Arabic: بِيتْلْز pl (bītlz), بِيتِيلْز pl (bītilz)
• Armenian: Բիթլզ (Bitʻlz)
• Azerbaijani: Bitlz
• Belarusian: Бітлз pl (Bitlz)
• Bengali: দ্য বিটল্‌স (dê biṭols), বিটল্‌স (biṭols)
• Bulgarian: Би́йтълс pl (Bíjtăls)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 披頭四 / 披头四 (pei¹ tau⁴ sei³)

  Mandarin: 披頭士 / 披头士 (Pītóushì), 披頭四 / 披头四 (Pītóusì)

• Faroese: Beatles, Beatlarnir m pl
• Finnish: Beatles
• French: Beatles (fr) m pl
• Georgian: ბითლზი (bitlzi)
• German: Beatles (de) m pl
• Greek: Μπητλς (Bitls)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: הביטלס (haBitels)
• Hindi: द बीटल्स (da bīṭals), बीटल्स (bīṭals)
• Icelandic: Bítlarnir
• Japanese: ビートルズ (Bītoruzu), ザ・ビートルズ (za-Bītoruzu)
• Kannada: ದಿ ಬೀಟಲ್ಸ್ (di bīṭals), ಬೀಟಲ್ಸ್ (bīṭals)
• Korean: 비틀즈 (Biteuljeu), 더 비틀즈 (deo Biteuljeu)
• Macedonian: Битлси pl (Bitlsi)
• Malayalam: ദി ബീറ്റിൽസ് (di bīṟṟilsŭ), ബീറ്റിൽസ് (bīṟṟilsŭ)
• Marathi: बीटल्स (bīṭalsa)
• Mongolian: Битлз (Bitlz)
• Nepali: द बिटल्स (da biṭalsa)
• Persian: بیتلز (bitelz)
• Polish: Beatlesi vir pl
• Portuguese: Os Beatles m pl
• Russian: Битлз (ru) pl (Bitlz), Битлы́ pl (Bitlý) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian: Битлси pl, Beatlesi pl
• Spanish: los Beatles m pl
• Swedish: Beatles pl, Beatlarna c pl
• Tamil: பீட்டில்ஸ் (pīṭṭils)
• Telugu: ద బీటిల్స్ (da bīṭils), బీటిల్స్ (bīṭils)
• Thai: เดอะบีตเทิลส์ (dùh bèet-tern)
• Turkish: Beatles
• Ukrainian: Бітлз pl (Bitlz)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: די ביטלס m pl (di bitls)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Beatles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

Beatles

1. plural of Beatle

Anagrams

• belates, besteal

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.tœls/, /bi.tœlz/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Beatles m pl (plural only)

1. Beatles (rock music quartet)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːtl̩s/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Beatles m pl (proper noun, plural only)

1. Beatles (rock music quartet)

Related terms

• Beatle m

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English beat all

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ms

Proto-Indo-European *-omsder.

Proto-Germanic *-anzder.?

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂m̥s

Proto-Germanic *-ōz

Proto-Germanic *-ōsder.?

Old English -as

Middle English -es

English -s

English Beatals

Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-der.?

Proto-Germanic *bautaną

Proto-West Germanic *bautan

Old English bēatan

Middle English beten

English beat

Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz

Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil

Old English bitula, bitela, bītel

Middle English bitle, bitel, bityl, bytylle

English beetle

▲

English -s

English beetles

blend

English Beatlesubor.

Portuguese Beatles

Unadapted borrowing from English Beatles.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.tows/ [ˈbi.toʊ̯s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.tows/ [ˈbi.toʊ̯s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.towʃ/ [ˈbi.toʊ̯ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.tɐls/ [ˈbi.tɐɫs]

Proper noun

Beatles m pl (plural only)

1. Beatles (rock music quartet)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbitels/ [ˈbi.t̪els]
• Rhymes: -itels
• Syllabification: Bea‧tles

Proper noun

Beatles m pl (plural only)

1. Beatles (rock music quartet)