bel

bel

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Belarusian.

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: bell, belle

Named after Alexander Graham Bell.

bel (plural bels)

1. A measure of relative power, defined as log₁₀(P ₁/P ₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the measured and reference power respectively.

• Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary

bel (plural bels)

1. Alternative form of bael (“Indian tree”)

• BLE, EBL, LEB, Leb, Leb.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بل (bel, “waist; spade”) (Turkish bel).

bel m

1. (anatomy) waist

From Ottoman Turkish بل (bel, “spade”), from Persian بیل (bil, “spade”).

bel m

1. spade

• bela, bel-la (feminine)

From Latin bellus (“pretty”). Compare Gascon bèth for the determiner use.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbel/
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: bel

bel m

1. strange (in certain expressions)

bel m

1. any, anyone

• Badia I Margarit, Antonio. 1950. El habla del Valle de Bielsa. Barcelona: Instituto de Estudios Pirenaicos. 88, 232.

• IPA^(key): /bel/

• Audio (Baku):

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From Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄l.

bel (definite accusative beli, plural bellər)

1. (anatomy) back of the body

   Synonyms: dal, arxa

   Belim ağrıyır. ― My back hurts.

   uşaqlığı at belində keçən adam ― a person whose childhood has passed on the back of a horse.

2. (anatomy) small of the back
3. (anatomy) waist

   Synonym: miyan

4. (geography) saddleback, saddle, col

• bel bağlamaq (“to rely on”)

From Persian بیل (bil, “spade”).

bel (definite accusative beli, plural bellər)

1. spade

Declension of bel
	singular	plural
nominative	bel	bellr
definite accusative	beln	bellr
dative	bely	bellr
locative	beld	bellrd
ablative	beldn	bellrdn
definite genitive	belnn	bellrn

Possessive forms of bel
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	belm	bellrm
sənin (“your”)	beln	bellrn
onun (“his/her/its”)	bels	bellr
bizim (“our”)	belmz	bellrmz
sizin (“your”)	belnz	bellrnz
onların (“their”)	bels or bellr	bellr
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	belm	bellrm
sənin (“your”)	beln	bellrn
onun (“his/her/its”)	belsn	bellrn
bizim (“our”)	belmz	bellrmz
sizin (“your”)	belnz	bellrnz
onların (“their”)	belsn or bellrn	bellrn
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	belm	bellrm
sənin (“your”)	beln	bellrn
onun (“his/her/its”)	belsn	bellrn
bizim (“our”)	belmz	bellrmz
sizin (“your”)	belnz	bellrnz
onların (“their”)	belsn or bellrn	bellrn
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	belmd	bellrmd
sənin (“your”)	belnd	bellrnd
onun (“his/her/its”)	belsnd	bellrnd
bizim (“our”)	belmzd	bellrmzd
sizin (“your”)	belnzd	bellrnzd
onların (“their”)	belsnd or bellrnd	bellrnd
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	belmdn	bellrmdn
sənin (“your”)	belndn	bellrndn
onun (“his/her/its”)	belsndn	bellrndn
bizim (“our”)	belmzdn	bellrmzdn
sizin (“your”)	belnzdn	bellrnzdn
onların (“their”)	belsndn or bellrndn	bellrndn
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	belmn	bellrmn
sənin (“your”)	belnn	bellrnn
onun (“his/her/its”)	belsnn	bellrnn
bizim (“our”)	belmzn	bellrmzn
sizin (“your”)	belnzn	bellrnzn
onların (“their”)	belsnn or bellrnn	bellrnn

• “bel” in Obastan.com.

From English bell.

bel

1. bell

From English belly.

bel

1. belly

From English bale.

bel

1. bale

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɛl]

Deverbal from belar (“to bleat”).

bel m (plural bels)

1. baa, bleat

• belar

bel m (plural bels)

1. (physics, acoustics) bel

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

From Middle Dutch belle, from Old Dutch bella, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

bel f (plural bellen, diminutive belletje n)

1. bell
2. (obsolete) segment of a rattlesnake's rattle

• → Caribbean Javanese: bèl
• → Sranan Tongo: bèl

Probably a variant of bal (“ball, round convex object”)

bel f (plural bellen, diminutive belletje n)

1. bubble

   Synonym: bubbel

• luchtbel
• zeepbel

Compare the semantic development of slet, but it is not certain whether the sense rag here is related to the sense referring to vulgar women, which is barely attested as simplex. Alternatively, the compounds featuring this words have been explained as being formed by analogy with snottebel or perhaps lellebel; note lellebellen (“to chit-chat”), which is attested as early as 1599 and may be related to German bellen (“to bark”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

bel ? (plural bellen, diminutive belletje n)

1. (obsolete, literally) rag
2. (obsolete, figuratively) loose, vulgar woman

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bel

1. inflection of bellen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

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• Homophones: bêle, belle

see beau

bel

1. form of beau used before a masculine noun that starts with a vowel sound

• used before masculine nouns that start with a vowel like animal but also before nouns that start with a vowel sound like homme, where the h is silent: un bel homme (/œ̃ bɛ.l‿ɔm/)

• bel air
• bel-enfant
• bel esprit

Named for Alexander Graham Bell

bel m (plural bels)

1. (sound engineering) bel (unit of sound intensity)

• décibel

• “bel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• blé

• IPA^(key): /bél/, [bél̥]

bel

1. (of girls) bond friend (friend across ethnic boundaries)

Petrollino, Sara (2016) A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic language of Ethiopia‎^[1], Leiden University

Borrowed from English belt.

• IPA^(key): /bél/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bál]

bêl m

1. belt
2. seatbelt

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛl]
• Hyphenation: bel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

From English bel.

bel

1. bel (a unit of measurement)

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	bel	belek
accusative	belt	beleket
dative	belnek	beleknek
instrumental	bellel	belekkel
causal-final	belért	belekért
translative	bellé	belekké
terminative	belig	belekig
essive-formal	belként	belekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	belben	belekben
superessive	belen	beleken
adessive	belnél	beleknél
illative	belbe	belekbe
sublative	belre	belekre
allative	belhez	belekhez
elative	belből	belekből
delative	belről	belekről
ablative	beltől	belektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	belé	beleké
non-attributive possessive - plural	beléi	belekéi

Possessive forms of bel
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	belem	beleim
2nd person sing.	beled	beleid
3rd person sing.	bele	belei
1st person plural	belünk	beleink
2nd person plural	beletek	beleitek
3rd person plural	belük	beleik

From bél.

bel

1. (archaic) internal part (a variant form of bél, used in derivatives)

• bel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• bel and bel- in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛːl/

  Rhymes: -ɛːl

bel n (genitive singular bels, nominative plural bel)

1. bel (measure of relative power)

• desibel, desíbel

From Dutch bel (“bell”), from Middle Dutch belle, from Old Dutch bella, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/
• Hyphenation: bèl

bèl (first-person possessive belku, second-person possessive belmu, third-person possessive belnya)

1. bell

   Synonym: lonceng

bèl

1. (colloquial) To make phone call.

Conjugation of bel (meng-, intransitive)
Root	bel
	Active	Involuntary	Passive	Basic / Imperative	Emphatic / Jussive
Active	mengebel	–	dibel	bel	bellah
Locative
Causative / Applicative1	mengebelkan	–	dibelkan	belkan	belkanlah
	Causative
Active
Locative
Causative / Applicative1
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

From English bel, after Alexander Graham Bell.

• IPA^(key): /bəl/
• Hyphenation: bêl

bêl (first-person possessive belku, second-person possessive belmu, third-person possessive belnya)

1. (physics) bel, a measure of relative power, defined as log₁₀(P ₁/P ₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the measured and reference power respectively.

• “bel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: bel

bel

1. preconsonantal masculine singular form of bello

From Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄l(k).

bel

1. thigh, waist

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “bel”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بل (bel, “waist”).

bel m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ביל)

1. (anatomy) waist

From Proto-Austronesian *qebel.

• (Standard Maguindanaon) IPA^(key): /bəl/ [bʊɭ]
• Rhymes: -əl
• Syllabification: bel

bël

1. smoke

From Proto-Austronesian *qebel, compare Mansaka ubul and Western Bukidnon Manobo evel.

bel

1. smoke

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

• bele, beele, beale, bealle

From Old French bel, biau, from Latin bellus, from Old Latin *duenelos. Doublet of beau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛːl/, /ˈbɛl/

bel

1. Of fine quality: good, nice, appealing.
2. Physically appealing; attractive, pretty.

• beaute, bewte

• “bē̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-24.

Borrowed from Old Norse bœli.

bel m (plural bels)

1. (Jersey) courtyard, yard, patio
2. (Jersey) farmyard

• bel à balle (“ball court, ball park”)

Named after A. G. Bell.

bel m (definite singular belen, indefinite plural bel, definite plural belane)

1. bel (logarithmic measure of sound pressure)

• desibel

From Old Norse bil.

bel n (definite singular belet, indefinite plural bel, definite plural bela)

1. moment, instant
2. gap, space

• “bel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• beal (uncommon)
• beau
• biau

From Latin bellus.

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

bel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bele)

1. graceful, elegant, courteous
2. noble
3. (as a term of address) good, as in, my good sir, my good lady
   • late 12th century, Aucassin et Nicolette, page 6 of the Mario Roques edition

     Biax sire, fait li quens, car laisciés ester. Nicolete est une caitive que j’amenai d’estrange tere

     Good sir, said the count, let her be. Nicolette is a captive that I've brought here from a foreign land

4. handsome; beautiful

• belement
• biauté
• bellezour

• Angevin: biau
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: biau
• Bourguignon: bea
• Champenois: bé, biau
• Franc-Comtois: bia
  • Middle French: beau, bel
    • French: beau
      • → English: beau
• Norman: bel, biau
• Picard: biau, bieu (Amiens)
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: bia
  • Paydret: béou
• Walloon: bea
• → Middle English: beau; bel

• belh

From Latin bellus.

bel m (feminine singular bela, masculine plural bels, feminine plural belas)

1. beautiful

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: bel

Internationalism; compare English bel. Ultimately named after Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer Alexander Graham Bell.

bel m inan (abbreviation B)

1. bel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bel f

1. genitive plural of bela

• bel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• behld (San Dionisio Ocotepec)

bel

1. (San Pablo Güilá) fish

• Natalie Operstein, Aaron Huey Sonnenschein, Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology (2015, →ISBN, page 80

• IPA^(key): /bêːl/

bȇl (Cyrillic spelling бе̑л, definite bȇlī, comparative bèljī)

1. Alternative form of bȅo

From Proto-Slavic *bělъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰēlHs (“white surface or stain”).

• IPA^(key): /bèːʋ/

bẹ́ł (comparative bȍlj bẹ́ł or belȇjši, superlative nȁjbolj bẹ́ł or nȁjbelȇjši)

1. white

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	bél	béla	bélo
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bél ind béli def	béla	bélo
genitive	bélega	béle	bélega
dative	bélemu	béli	bélemu
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	bélo	bélo
locative	bélem	béli	bélem
instrumental	bélim	bélo	bélim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	béla	béli	béli
genitive	bélih	bélih	bélih
dative	bélima	bélima	bélima
accusative	béla	béli	béli
locative	bélih	bélih	bélih
instrumental	bélima	bélima	bélima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	béli	béle	béla
genitive	bélih	bélih	bélih
dative	bélim	bélim	bélim
accusative	béle	béle	béla
locative	bélih	bélih	bélih
instrumental	bélimi	bélimi	bélimi

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Colors in Slovene · barve (layout · text)

bela	siva	črna
rdeča; škrlatna	oranžna; rjava	rumena; krem
svetlozelena, limeta	zelena
sinja, cian; turkizna	azurna	modra
vijolična; indigo	magenta, fuksija; vijolična, lila	roza, rožnata

• “bel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “bel”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

From English belly.

bel

1. abdomen, belly (of a human)
2. underside
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:14:

     Na God, Bikpela i tokim snek olsem, “Yu bin mekim dispela pasin nogut, olsem na nau mi gat strongpela tok bilong daunim yu. Bai yu gat bikpela hevi. Hevi yu karim bai i winim hevi bilong olgeta arapela animal. Nau na long olgeta taim bihain bai yu wokabaut long bel bilong yu tasol. Na bai yu kaikai das bilong graun.

     →New International Version translation

3. the fuselage of an airplane.

• bel i hevi/bel hevi
• rausim bel

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛl/

From Ottoman Turkish بل (bel, “waist, loins”), from Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄l(k) (“waist”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /⁠bél⁠/, “waist”).

bel (definite accusative beli, plural beller)

1. waist

Inflection
Nominative	bel
Definite accusative	beli
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bel	beller
Definite accusative	beli	belleri
Dative	bele	bellere
Locative	belde	bellerde
Ablative	belden	bellerden
Genitive	belin	bellerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular belim bellerim 2nd singular belin bellerin 3rd singular beli belleri 1st plural belimiz bellerimiz 2nd plural beliniz belleriniz 3rd plural belleri belleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular belimi bellerimi 2nd singular belini bellerini 3rd singular belini bellerini 1st plural belimizi bellerimizi 2nd plural belinizi bellerinizi 3rd plural bellerini bellerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular belime bellerime 2nd singular beline bellerine 3rd singular beline bellerine 1st plural belimize bellerimize 2nd plural belinize bellerinize 3rd plural bellerine bellerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular belimde bellerimde 2nd singular belinde bellerinde 3rd singular belinde bellerinde 1st plural belimizde bellerimizde 2nd plural belinizde bellerinizde 3rd plural bellerinde bellerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular belimden bellerimden 2nd singular belinden bellerinden 3rd singular belinden bellerinden 1st plural belimizden bellerimizden 2nd plural belinizden bellerinizden 3rd plural bellerinden bellerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular belimin bellerimin 2nd singular belinin bellerinin 3rd singular belinin bellerinin 1st plural belimizin bellerimizin 2nd plural belinizin bellerinizin 3rd plural bellerinin bellerinin

From Ottoman Turkish بل (bel, “spade”), variant of بیل (bil), from Persian بیل (bil, “spade”).

bel (definite accusative beli, plural beller)

1. (dated) spade

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 274
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bel2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From Proto-Turkic *bel.

bel

1. mark, sign

• bel etmek

bel (definite accusative beli, plural beller)

1. archaic and dialectal form of pil (“shovel, spade”)

Other scripts
Yangi Imlo
Cyrillic	бел‍
Latin	bel‍
Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan)

From Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄l (“waist”).

bel (plural bellar)

1. waistline

Borrowed from Persian بیل (bêl, “spade”).

bel (plural bellar)

1. shovel, spade

Borrowed from German Berg.

bel (nominative plural bels)

1. mountain
   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: V:

     Ven Yesus älogom menamödotis, äbexänom beli.

     Seeing the crowds, Jesus went onto the mountain.

From Old Frisian *belle, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

bel c (plural bellen, diminutive beltsje)

1. bell
2. doorbell

• earbel

• “bel”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

bel

1. flat, wide

• Reconstructing Languages and Cultures: Abstracts and Materials from the First International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory, Ann Arbor, 8-12 November, 1988