Be

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

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" (Neil Diamond song), a 1973 single
 * "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)
 * Bloco de Esquerda 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
 * Bermuda (World Meteorological Organization territory code: BE)
 * Canton of Bern, a canton of Switzerland

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

Other uses

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