bel

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

Named after Alexander Graham Bell.

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.

• decibel

• Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary

bel (plural bels)

1. Alternative form of bael (Indian tree)

• BLE, EBL, LEB, Leb, Leb.

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

bel m

1. (anatomy) waist
2. spade

bel m (plural bels)

1. baa, bleat

• belar

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

• audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

From Middle Dutch belle, from Old Dutch bella, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

bel f (plural bellen, diminutive belletje n)

1. bell
2. (obsolete) segment of a rattlesnake's rattle

bel f (plural bellen, diminutive belletje n)

1. bubble

   Synonym: bubbel

• luchtbel
• zeepbel

See the etymology of the main entry.

bel

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

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

see beau

bel

1. form of beau used before a masculine noun that starts with a vowel sound

• 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

bel m (plural bels)

1. bel

• blé

• “bel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English belt.

bêl m

1. belt
2. seatbelt

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛːl/

  Rhymes: -ɛːl

bel n (genitive singular bels, nominative plural bel)

1. bel (measure of relative power)

• desibel, desíbel

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛl/

bel

1. preconsonantal masculine singular form of bello

From English bell.

bel

1. bell

Borrowed from Turkish bel (“waist”).

bel m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ביל‎)

1. (anatomy) waist

• bele, beele, beale, bealle

From Old French bel, biau, from Latin bellus, from Old Latin *duenelos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛːl/, /ˈbɛl/

bel

1. Of fine quality: good, nice, appealing.
2. Physically appealing; attractive, pretty.

• beaute, bewte

• “bē̆l (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-24.

Borrowed from Old Norse bǿli.

bel m (plural bels)

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

• bel à balle (“ball court, ball park”)

bel

1. Shortened form of beli.

bel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bele)

1. Alternative form of biau

• belh

From Latin bellus

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

1. beautiful

• behld (San Dionisio Ocotepec)

bel

1. (San Pablo Güilá) fish

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

• IPA^(key): /bêːl/

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

1. Alternative form of bȅo

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

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

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

1. white

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

From English belly

bel

1. abdomen, belly (of a human)
2. underside
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:14:

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3. the fuselage of an airplane.

• bel i hevi/bel hevi
• rausim bel

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛl/

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

bel (definite accusative beli, plural beller)

1. waist

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

bel (definite accusative beli, plural beller)

1. (dated) spade

Borrowed from German Berg.

bel (plural bels)

1. mountain

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

bel c (plural bellen, diminutive beltsje)

1. bell
2. doorbell

• earbel

• “bel”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

bel

1. flat, wide

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