bela

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بلا (bela, “calamity, misfortune, evil, trouble”).^[1] from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ).

bela m (plural belatë)

1. (colloquial) trouble

   Ç'na gjeti belaja!

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (colloquial) annoyance, nuisance

• “bela”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980

• bel-la (with geminate /ll/)
• bel (masculine)

From Latin bella (“pretty”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbela/
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: be‧la

bela f

1. strange (in certain expressions)

bela f

1. any, anyone

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

bela

1. inflection of belar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Spanish vela.

• IPA^(key): /βela/

bela

1. candle, cylindrical piece made of wax with a wick in its center, which serves to light

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Common Romance, from Latin bellus.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbela/
• Hyphenation: be‧la
• Rhymes: -ela

bela (accusative singular belan, plural belaj, accusative plural belajn)

1. beautiful, pretty
   • 1907, Filipina Esperantisto, Volumes 1-2‎:

     Kiaj belaj estas ĝiaj altaj montoj tute kovritaj de kreskaĵoj!

     How beautiful are its tall mountains completely covered with plants!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1915, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Malnova Testamento, Genezo 12:14.

     Kaj kiam Abram venis Egiptujon, la Egiptoj vidis, ke la virino estas tre bela.

     And when Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

   Antonym: malbela

• belega

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.lɐ/
• Rhymes: -ɛlɐ, -ɛla
• Hyphenation: be‧la

bela

1. feminine singular of belo

Borrowed from Esperanto bela, French beau, Italian bello, Spanish belo, from Latin bellus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.la/

bela

1. beautiful

• leda

• beleskar (“to embellish”)
• beligar (“to beautify, embellish”)

From Malay bela (“advocate, defend, avenge”), from Old Javanese bela (“be prepared to die with another person, die for and with another person”), welā (“limit of time, period, hour, last hour, hour of death”), from Sanskrit वेला (velā, “point, time, end”).

• IPA^(key): /bɛ.la/
• Rhymes: -la, -a
• Hyphenation: bèla

bela

1. to look after (used in the form membela)

• “bela” 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): /ˈbɛ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: bè‧la

bela

1. inflection of belare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Abèl, Elba, albe

From Vulgar Latin *vela, from the plural of Latin velum.

bela f (plural belas)

1. (nautical) sail
2. sail, blade of a windmill
3. spark plug

Borrowed from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ).

bela ?

1. affliction

bela

1. to boil

bela

1. simple past of belegge

bela

1. Alternative spelling of béla

bela

1. feminine singular of bel

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Syllabification: be‧la

Back-formation from belka.

bela f

1. Augmentative of belka; large beam, large plank
2. spool, reel, bolt (of paper or fabric)
3. bale (a rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation)

   Synonyms: bal, balot

4. bale (ten reams of paper)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bela m inan

1. genitive/accusative singular of bel

• bela in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bela in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Homophone: vela (Northern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: be‧la

bela

1. feminine singular of belo
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 135:

     Ele agora tem uma casa nas montanhas, foi Dumbledore que arranjou, uma bela caverna.

     He now has a home in the mountains, Dumbledore is who provided it, a beautiful cave.

From bèlot, belȍt.

• IPA^(key): /bêla/
• Hyphenation: be‧la

bȅla f (Cyrillic spelling бе̏ла)

1. belote

bela

1. inflection of beo:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
   3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
   4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

• “bela”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

bela

1. to boil (something)

From -ba +‎ -ela.

-béla

1. to steal from

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

bela

1. to boil

• belâ

From Ottoman Turkish بلا (belâ), from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ, “affliction”).

• IPA^(key): /be.laː/

bela (definite accusative belayı, plural belalar)

1. affliction, trouble

From Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ).

• Hyphenation: be‧la

bela (definite accusative belany, plural belalar)

1. disaster, catastrophe

• “bela” in Enedilim.com
• “bela” in Webonary.org

bela

1. genitive singular of bel