bel

See also: bel-, Bel, bél, bèl, bël, BEL, and ␇

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Homophones: bell, belle

Etymology 1

Named after Alexander Graham Bell.

Noun

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. See also decibel.
Translations

References

  • Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary

Etymology 2

Noun

bel (plural bels)

  1. Alternative form of bael (Indian tree)

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (“waist; spade”) (Turkish bel).

Noun

bel m

  1. (anatomy) waist
  2. spade

Catalan

Noun

bel m (plural bels)

  1. baa, bleat

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛl
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Noun

bel m, f (plural bellen, diminutive belletje n)

  1. bell
  2. bubble

Derived terms

Verb

bel

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bellen
  2. imperative of bellen

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛl/

Etymology 1

see beau

Adjective

bel

  1. form of beau used before a masculine noun that starts with a vowel sound
Usage notes
  • 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.bɛl.ɔm/)
  • bel air

Etymology 2

Noun

bel m (plural bels)

  1. bel

Anagrams

Further reading

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English belt.

Noun

bêl m

  1. belt
  2. seatbelt

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛːl/
    Rhymes: -ɛːl

Noun

bel n (genitive singular bels, nominative plural bel)

  1. bel (measure of relative power)

Declension

Italian

Adjective

bel

  1. preconsonantal masculine singular form of bello

Descendants

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English bell.

Noun

bel

  1. bell

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish bel (“waist”).

Noun

bel m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ביל‎)

  1. (anatomy) waist

Middle English

Noun

bel (plural bels)

  1. fine (clarification of this definition is needed)

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse bǿli.

Noun

bel m (plural bels)

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

Derived terms

Novial

Adjective

bel

  1. Shortened form of beli.

Old French

Adjective

bel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bele)

  1. Alternative form of biau

Declension

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

  • belh

Etymology

From Latin bellus

Adjective

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

  1. beautiful

San Pablo Güilá Zapotec

Alternative forms

  • behld (San Dionisio Ocotepec)

Noun

bel

  1. (San Pablo Güilá) fish

References

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bêːl/

Adjective

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

  1. Alternative form of bȅo

Slovene

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbéːw/
  • Tonal orthography: bẹ̑ł

Adjective

bél (comparative bòlj bél or belêjši, superlative nàjbolj bél or nàjbelêjši)

  1. white

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

See also

Colors in Slovene · barve (layout · text)
     bela      siva      črna      rjava
             roza              rdeča ; škrlatna              oranžna              rumena ; krem
             svetlozelena, limeta              zelena                           sinja, cian ; turkizna
             azurna              modra              vijolična ; indigo              magenta, fuksija ; vijolična, lila

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English belly

Noun

bel

  1. abdomen, belly (of a human)
  2. underside
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 3:14 (translation here):
      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.
  3. the fuselage of an airplane.

Derived terms

  • bel i hevi/bel hevi
  • rausim bel
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Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛl/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bel (definite accusative beli, plural beller)

  1. waist
Declension
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
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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bel (definite accusative beli, plural beller)

  1. (dated) spade

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German Berg.

Noun

bel (plural bels)

  1. mountain

Declension

Wiyot

Adjective

bel

  1. flat, wide

References

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