bela
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بلا (bela, “calamity, misfortune, evil, trouble”).[1]
Noun edit
bela m (plural belatë)
- (colloquial) trouble
- Ç'na gjeti belaja!
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (colloquial) annoyance, nuisance
References edit
Further reading edit
- “bela”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
Aragonese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bela f
- strange (in certain expressions)
Determiner edit
bela f
References edit
- Badia I Margarit, Antonio. 1950. El habla del Valle de Bielsa. Barcelona: Instituto de Estudios Pirenaicos. 88, 232.
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bela
- inflection of belar:
Chibcha edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bela
- candle, cylindrical piece made of wax with a wick in its center, which serves to light
References edit
- Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Common Romance, from Latin bellus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bela (accusative singular belan, plural belaj, accusative plural belajn)
- beautiful, pretty
- 1907, Filipina Esperantisto, Volumes 1-2[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 edit
Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bela
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Esperanto bela, French beau, Italian bello, Spanish belo, from Latin bellus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bela
Antonyms edit
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Verb edit
bela
- to look after (used in the form membela)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of bela (meng-, transitive) | |||||
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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 edit
Further reading edit
- “bela” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bela
- inflection of belare:
Anagrams edit
Mirandese edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *vela, from the plural of Latin velum.
Noun edit
bela f (plural belas)
- (nautical) sail
- sail, blade of a windmill
- spark plug
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ).
Noun edit
bela ?
Northern Sotho edit
Verb edit
bela
- to boil
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
bela
Old Irish edit
Noun edit
bela
- Alternative spelling of béla
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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 edit
Adjective edit
bela
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Back-formation from belka.
Noun edit
bela f
- Augmentative of belka; large beam, large plank
- spool, reel, bolt (of paper or fabric)
- bale (a rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation)
- bale (ten reams of paper)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
bela m inan
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bela
- feminine singular of belo
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, 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.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bȅla f (Cyrillic spelling бе̏ла)
Adjective edit
bela
- inflection of beo:
References edit
- “bela” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Sotho edit
Verb edit
bela
- to boil (something)
Swazi edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
-béla
- to steal from
Inflection edit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Tswana edit
Verb edit
bela
- to boil
Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish بلا (belâ), from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ, “affliction”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bela (definite accusative belayı, plural belalar)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turkmen edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: be‧la
Noun edit
bela (definite accusative belany, plural belalar)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Volapük edit
Noun edit
bela