bela

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Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بلا (bela, calamity, misfortune, evil, trouble).

Noun

bela m (plural belatë)

  1. (colloquial) trouble
    Ç'na gjeti belaja!
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. (colloquial) annoyance, nuisance

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “bela”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 74

Further reading

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

Aragonese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin bella (pretty).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

bela f

  1. strange (in certain expressions)

Determiner

bela f

  1. any, anyone

References

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

bela

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

Chibcha

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vela.

Pronunciation

Noun

bela

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

References

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

Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance, from Latin bellus.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Derived terms

Galician

Pronunciation

Adjective

bela

  1. feminine singular of belo

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto belaFrench beauItalian belloSpanish belo, from Latin bellus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bela

  1. beautiful

Antonyms

Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

Verb

bela

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of bela (meng-, transitive)
Root bela
Active Involuntary Passive Imperative Jussive
Active membela dibela bela belalah
Locative membelai dibelai belai belailah
Causative / Applicative1 membelakan dibelakan belakan belakanlah
Causative
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.

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛla
  • Hyphenation: bè‧la

Verb

bela

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

Anagrams

Mirandese

Etymology

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

Noun

bela f (plural belas)

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

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ).

Noun

bela ?

  1. affliction

Northern Sotho

Verb

bela

  1. to boil

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

bela

  1. simple past of belegge

Old Irish

Noun

bela

  1. Alternative spelling of béla

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bela bela
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
mbela
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Occitan

Adjective

bela

  1. feminine singular of bel

Polish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Back-formation from belka.

Noun

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)
Declension
Related terms
adjectives
noun
verbs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

bela m inan

  1. genitive/accusative singular of bel

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Adjective

bela

  1. feminine singular of belo

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bèlot, belȍt.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bȅla f (Cyrillic spelling бе̏ла)

  1. belote

Adjective

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

References

  • bela” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Sotho

Verb

bela

  1. to boil (something)

Swazi

Etymology

From -ba +‎ -ela.

Verb

-béla

  1. to steal from

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Tswana

Verb

bela

  1. to boil

Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

bela (definite accusative belayı, plural belalar)

  1. affliction, trouble

Declension

Inflection
Nominative bela
Definite accusative belayı
Singular Plural
Nominative bela belalar
Definite accusative belayı belaları
Dative belaya belalara
Locative belada belalarda
Ablative beladan belalardan
Genitive belanın belaların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular belam belalarım
2nd singular belan belaların
3rd singular belası belaları
1st plural belamız belalarımız
2nd plural belanız belalarınız
3rd plural belaları belaları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular belamı belalarımı
2nd singular belanı belalarını
3rd singular belasını belalarını
1st plural belamızı belalarımızı
2nd plural belanızı belalarınızı
3rd plural belalarını belalarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular belama belalarıma
2nd singular belana belalarına
3rd singular belasına belalarına
1st plural belamıza belalarımıza
2nd plural belanıza belalarınıza
3rd plural belalarına belalarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular belamda belalarımda
2nd singular belanda belalarında
3rd singular belasında belalarında
1st plural belamızda belalarımızda
2nd plural belanızda belalarınızda
3rd plural belalarında belalarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular belamdan belalarımdan
2nd singular belandan belalarından
3rd singular belasından belalarından
1st plural belamızdan belalarımızdan
2nd plural belanızdan belalarınızdan
3rd plural belalarından belalarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular belamın belalarımın
2nd singular belanın belalarının
3rd singular belasının belalarının
1st plural belamızın belalarımızın
2nd plural belanızın belalarınızın
3rd plural belalarının belalarının
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular belayım belalarım
2nd singular belasın belalarsın
3rd singular bela
beladır
belalar
belalardır
1st plural belayız belalarız
2nd plural belasınız belalarsınız
3rd plural belalar belalardır

Turkmen

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: be‧la

Noun

bela (definite accusative belany, plural belalar)

  1. disaster, catastrophe

Declension

Further reading

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

Volapük

Noun

bela

  1. genitive singular of bel