belə
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bele"
Azerbaijani edit
| Cyrillic | белә | |
|---|---|---|
| Abjad | بئله | |
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (böyle), which is attested in the XIVth-century Anatolian epic Danishmendnâme. Origination from merging of bu (“this”) and ile, ilə (“with”) (thus, from an expression that had the meaning with it) has been suggested.[1] Starostin et al. reject this with a reference to a proposed Proto-Turkic form *bEd-le,[2] which they reconstruct with the support of Karakhanid [script needed] (böyle),[3] Turkish böyle, Turkmen beýle, Azerbaijani belə and Salar bele, that is, based almost exclusively on Oghuz material.
Alternative forms edit
Determiner edit
belə
- such; like this (that, these, those)[4]
- Synonym: bu cür
- Belə insanlarla bir yerdə işləmək olmur.
- It's impossible to work with such people.
Adverb edit
belə
- so; in this way; like this (that)
- Bu həmişə belə olub, belə də qalacaq.
- It's always been like this, and it's going to remain like this.
- (when added to sentences containing wh-questions), surprisement or disfavour
- Gecənin bu vaxtında hara gedirsən belə?
- Where are you going at this late hour?
- after, since [+ablative]
- bundan belə ― after this
- o gündən belə ― since that day
See also edit
Derived terms edit
- belə-belə (“such”) (used with plural referents)
- beləcə (“in this manner”)
- belənçik (“like this”) (colloquial)
- beləlikdə (“in such a case”)
- beləliklə (“thus”)
- elə-belə (“for no reason, just like that; so-so”)
Etymology 2 edit
Probably from Proto-Turkic *bile (“with, together, also”), whence also the postposition ilə (“with”). Cognate with Turkish bile; possibly contaminated by Etymology 1.
Adverb edit
belə
- (used after the verb) even
- Synonym: hətta
- 2017 April 2, Publika.az[1]:
- Amma bəzən fotolarla reallıq arasında o qədər fərq olur ki, həyatda üz-üzə gəlsən belə o insanları tanımaq mümkün olmur.
- But sometimes there is such a gap between the photographs and the reality, that even if you come face-to-face with those people, it's impossible to recognize them.
References edit
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “böyle”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bEd-le”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Borovkov, Aleksandr Konstantinovič (1963) “бöјлä”, in Leksika sredneaziatskovo tefsira. [Lexicon of the Central Asian Tafsir], Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Vostočnoj Literatury, pages 107-108
- ^ Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “belə”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language] (in Azerbaijani), volume I, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, pages 255-256