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Beatles
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beatles
English
thumb|250px|upright|The Beatles
Etymology
en :from <alt:Beatals><ety:af<beat all><-s<id:plural>>> :blend beat<id:stroke> beetles<ety:af<beetle<id:insect>><-s<id:plural>>>
Originally spelled Beatals, punningly referencing the expression en beat all surpass everything, then later altered to Beatles, en beat beetles 1, with beat referring to "beat music" or the "beat" of a drum, and beetles inspired by the contemporaneous band name The Crickets.Greg Metzer, Rock Band Name Origins (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co.) 2008.Kenneth Womack, The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four (Santa Barbara: Greenwood) 2017.
Pronunciation
en /ˈbiːtəlz/ [ˈbɪi̯tʰəlz] ~ [ˈbɪi̯tʰl̩z]
en /ˈbiːɾəlz/ [ˈbɪi̯ɾəlz] ~ [ˈbɪi̯ɾl̩z] t-flapping
en En-us-Beatles.oga US
en /ˈbiːʔəlz/ [ˈbɪi̯ʔəlz] ~ [ˈbɪi̯ʔl̩z] t-glottalization
en Beat les
en beetles
Proper noun
p the Beatles
An extremely successful and influential British rock music quartet that operated primarily in the 1960s.
en Fab Four
en Beatles
en 2023 w:Priscilla Presley; Sandra Harmon; w:Sofia Coppola Priscilla (film) Priscilla w:Elvis Jacob Elordi Don't tell me to play goddamn Beatles in my house. We're in America, I swear to God.
Derived terms
en 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: ar بِيتْلْز p, ar بِيتِيلْز p bītilz
Armenian: hy Բիթլզ
Azerbaijani: az Bitlz
Belarusian: be Бітлз p
Bengali: bn দ্য বিটল্স, bn বিটল্স
Bulgarian: bg Би́йтълс p
Burmese: my
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 披頭四 pei1 tau4 sei3
Mandarin: cmn 披頭士 Pītóushì, cmn 披頭四 Pītóusì
Faroese: fo Beatles, fo Beatlarnir m-p
Finnish: fi Beatles
French: fr Beatles m-p
Georgian: ka ბითლზი
German: de Beatles m-p
Greek: el Μπητλς
Gujarati: gu
Hawaiian: haw
Hebrew: he הביטלס haBitels
Hindi: hi द बीटल्स, hi बीटल्स
Icelandic: is Bítlarnir
Japanese: ja ビートルズ Bītoruzu, ja ザ・ビートルズ za-Bītoruzu
Kannada: kn ದಿ ಬೀಟಲ್ಸ್, kn ಬೀಟಲ್ಸ್
Korean: ko ^비틀즈, ko 더 ^비틀즈
Macedonian: mk Битлси p
Malayalam: ml ദി ബീറ്റിൽസ്, ml ബീറ്റിൽസ്
Marathi: mr बीटल्स
Mongolian: mn Битлз
Nepali: ne द बिटल्स
Persian: fa بیتلز bitelz
Polish: pl Beatlesi vr-p
Portuguese: pt Beatles Os Beatles m-p
Russian: ru Битлз p, ru Битлы́ p colloquial
Serbo-Croatian: sh Битлси p, sh Beatlesi p
Spanish: es Beatles los Beatles m-p
Swedish: sv Beatles p, sv Beatlarna c-p
Tamil: ta பீட்டில்ஸ்
Telugu: te ద బీటిల్స్, te బీటిల్స్
Thai: th เดอะบีตเทิลส์ dùh bèet-tern
Turkish: tr Beatles
Ukrainian: uk Бітлз p
Urdu: ur
Yiddish: yi ביטלס די ביטלס m-p
Zulu: zu
Further reading
Noun
en noun form
en Beatle
References
Anagrams
en abeelst belates besteal
en The Beatles Groups of people Musicians
French
fr:Les +
Pronunciation
biteulse biteulze
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Beatles.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
Proper noun
m-p
en Beatles rock music quartet
German
de:Die +
Pronunciation
de /ˈbiːtl̩s/
de De-Beatles.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
mp
Beatles rock music quartet
Related terms
de Beatle m
Portuguese
pt:
Etymology
pt :ubor en:Beatles + 1
Pronunciation
Bítols Bítậlç
Proper noun
m-p
en Beatles rock music quartet
Spanish
es:Los +
Pronunciation
Bítels Bea.tles
Proper noun
m-p
en Beatles rock music quartet