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Catalan

Adjective

bella

1. feminine singular of bell

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l.la/
• Rhymes: -?lla
• Hyphenation: bèl?la

Etymology 1

Substantivization of the singular feminine form of bello (“beautiful”).

Noun

bella f (plural belle)

1. beauty, belle (beautiful woman)
2. sweetheart

   Synonyms: compagna, fidanzata, innamorata

3. fair copy (final draft of a piece of writing)
4. showdown (deciding match)
5. a Renaissance-style ceramic plate decorated with portraits of young women.

Derived terms

• bella di notte

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

bella

1. feminine singular of bello

Anagrams

• balle

References

• bella in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

bella

1. nominative plural of bellum
2. accusative plural of bellum
3. vocative plural of bellum

Adjective

bella

1. nominative feminine singular of bellus
2. nominative neuter plural of bellus
3. accusative neuter plural of bellus
4. vocative feminine singular of bellus
5. nominative neuter plural of bellus

Adjective

bell?

1. ablative feminine singular of bellus

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bel?a]

Adjective

bella (Lontara spelling ???)

1. far

   Antonym: ambani

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Verb

bella (present bellr, past singular ball)

1. (transitive, with dative) hit, hurt

Etymology 2

Verb

bella

1. (with dative) to dare, venture

Conjugation

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: belle

References

• bella1 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bella2 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Adjective

bella

1. feminine singular of bello

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) bula
• (Surmiran) pula

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bella f (plural bellas)

1. (Sursilvan) butterfly, moth

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) spler
• (Rumantsch Grischun) tgiralla
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) tschitta
• (Puter) chüralla
• (Vallader) splerin

Spanish

Pronunciation

Adjective

bella

1. feminine singular of bello

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?l, IPA^(key): /b?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bell?. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.

Noun

bell (plural bells)

1. A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
   • 1848, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells"

     HEAR the sledges with the bells —

     Silver bells!

     What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

2. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
3. (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.

   I’ll give you a bell later.

4. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
5. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
6. (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
7. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
8. (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
9. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
10. (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
11. An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

Synonyms

• (in heraldry): campane
• (rare): tintinnabule

Hyponyms

Meronyms

• (internally suspended tool for striking): clapper, tongue
• (flaring open end): mouth

Holonyms

• (structure housing bells): bell tower, campanile
• (sets of bells): carillon, peal

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Fiji Hindi: belo
• ? Japanese: ?? (beru)

Translations

See also

• (study of bells): campanology
• (expert in bells): campanist, campanologist
• (player of bells): bell-ringer, carilloner, carilloneur, carillonist, ringer, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulist
• (playing of bells): bell-ringing, tintinnabulation, tintinnabulism, tintinnation
• (bell-related): campanistic, campanologic, campanarian, tintinnabular, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulatory, tintinnabulous
• (related to a peal of bells or bell tower): campanilian
• (bell-shaped): bell-shaped, campanal, campaniform, campaniliform, campanular, campanulate, campanulated, campanulous, tintinnabulate
• (containing bells): campaned
• (sounding like a small bell): jingling, tinkling, tintinnabulant, tintinnabulating, tintinnating

Verb

bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)

1. (transitive) To attach a bell to.

   Who will bell the cat?

2. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

   to bell a tube

3. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
4. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

   Hops bell.

See also

• bell out

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bellen, from Old English bellan (“to bellow; make a hollow noise; roar; bark; grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *bellan? (“to sound; roar; bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to sound; roar; bark”). Cognate with Scots bell (“to shout; speak loudly”), Dutch bellen (“to bark”), German Low German bellen (“to ring”), German bellen (“to bark”), Swedish böla (“to low; bellow; roar”).

Verb

bell (third-person singular simple present bells, present participle belling, simple past and past participle belled)

1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
   • As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!

   • 1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair:

     You acted part so well, went al?-fours upon earth / The live-long day, brayed, belled.

   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, page 128:

     Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.

2. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel:

     Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.

Derived terms

• belling

Translations

Noun

bell (plural bells)

1. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin bellus. Compare Occitan bèll, bèu, French beau, Spanish bello.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?be?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: vell

Adjective

bell (feminine bella, masculine plural bells, feminine plural belles)

1. beautiful

Derived terms

• bellament
• bellesa
• belles arts
• embellir

Further reading

• “bell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bell” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “bell” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

German

Verb

bell

1. singular imperative of bellen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of bellen

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (balla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ll/

Verb

bell (imperfect jbill, past participle miblul)

1. to dip (immerse something shortly or partly into a liquid)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/
• (South Wales, also) IPA^(key): /be??/

Adjective

bell

1. Soft mutation of pell.

Mutation