bedel
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin pedellus, bedellus, bidellus, from Middle English bedel; cognate with beadle.
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bedel (plural bedels)
- (historical) An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.
- Oxford today has four bedels, representing Divinity, Law, Medicine, and Arts.
- 1837, William Harrison Ainsworth, “The Rector”, in Crichton, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, page 59:
- Next came the bedels and minor-bedels of all the Faculties, who by some accident were so jumbled together, that it was impossible to determine or arrange any order of precedence. […] These bedels or greffiers were jolly robustious souls, bending beneath the weight of their ponderous silver maces, and attired in gowns of black, blue, violet, or dark red, each colour denoting the Faculty to which the wearer pertained.
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bedel (present bedel, present participle bedelende, past participle gebedel)
- To beg
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
bedel
- A toll, due, fee, contribution
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| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bedel | bedeller |
| genitive | bedelniñ | bedellerniñ |
| dative | bedelge | bedellerge |
| accusative | bedelni | bedellerni |
| locative | bedelde | bedellerde |
| ablative | bedelden | bedellerden |
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bedel
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Etymology 1 edit
From bedelen.
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Noun edit
bedel m (plural bedels, diminutive bedeltje n)
Usage notes edit
In the sense “charm” most commonly used in the diminutive form bedeltje. When used as the first component in a compound noun, however, as in bedelarmband = bedel + armband, the main form is used.
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from German Pedell, from Medieval Latin bidellus, bedellus, pedellus.
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Noun edit
bedel m (plural bedels, diminutive bedeltje n)
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Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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bedel
- inflection of bedelen:
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Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin bidellus, bedellus, pedellus, from a merger of Frankish *bidil (“candidate, volunteer”) (from Proto-Germanic *bidilaz (“seeker”), from *bidjaną (“to ask, beseech”)) and Frankish *budil (“herald, beadle”) (from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”)). Akin to Old High German bitil (“candidate”), Old High German butil (“beadle”) (German Büttel), Old English bydel (“apparitor, messenger, beadle”) (English beadle).
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bedel oblique singular, m (oblique plural bedeaus or bedeax or bediaus or bediax or bedels, nominative singular bedeaus or bedeax or bediaus or bediax or bedels, nominative plural bedel)
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bedel m or f by sense (plural bedeles)
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Further reading edit
- “bedel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish بدل, from Arabic بَدَل (badal, “substitution, equivalent”).
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bedel
- equivalent
- Bir dolar, beş Türk lirasına bedel. ― One dollar is equivalent to five Turkish lira.
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bedel (definite accusative bedeli, plural bedeller)
- value, price
- Bu hatasının bedelini ödemelidir.
- He has to pay for his error (literally: “He must pay the price of this error of his”).
- substitute
- substitute hajji (a person who performs the hajj for payment in place of someone else)
- Hacca gitmemiş bir kimse, başkasının yerine bedel olarak hacca gidebilir mi?
- Can someone who has not performed the hajj go as substitute in someone else’s place?
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- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bedel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük