Beey vs. Bey

Beeyadjective

of or containing bees.

Beynoun

(historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions

Beynoun

in various other places, a prince or nobleman

Beynoun

A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.

Beynoun

(formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt;

Beynoun

the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire

Bey

(Ottoman Turkish: بك‎ “Beik”, Chagatay: بك “Bek”, Turkmen: beg, Uzbek: bek, Kazakh: бек, Tatar: bäk, Albanian: beu/bej, Bosnian: beg, Persian: بیگ‎ “Beigh” or بگ “Beg”, Tajik: бе, Arabic: بك‎ “Bek”) is a Turkic title for a chieftain, and an honorific, traditionally applied to people with special lineages to the leaders or rulers of variously sized areas in the numerous Turkic kingdoms, emirates, sultanates and empires in Central Asia, South Asia, and The Middle East, such as the Ottomans, Timurids or the various khanates and emirates in Central Asia and the Eurasian Steppe. The feminine equivalent title was begum.