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English

Etymology

From Italian bemolle.

Noun

bemol (plural bemols)

1. (music, obsolete) The flat symbol (?), or a flattened note.
   • 1753, The Deist Triumphant, page 154 [1]

     F natural has a Bemol on b. [...] B flat has a Bemol on b and e.

   • 1818, George Jones, History of the Rise and Progress of Music, Theoretical and Practical, page 345 [2]

     Now B?, which is ?uppo?ed to be repre?ented by Nº 6. of the hammers, is the generator of the next modulation or key in the bemol or flat mode, F.

   • 1841, Terence Joseph O'Donnelly, The Academy of Elementary Music, page 133 [3]

     Sol major has only one dièse for a signature; therefore sol ? major must have six bemols; six and one make seven.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lembo, moble

Albanian

Etymology

From Italian bemolle.

Adjective

bemol

1. flat (lowered by one semitone)

Polish

Etymology

From Italian bemolle.

Noun

bemol m inan

1. (music) flat (note played a semitone lower than a natural)

Declension

Further reading

• bemol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian bemolle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?m??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /be?m?w/
• Hyphenation: be?mol

Adjective

bemol (plural bemóis, not comparable)

1. (music, note) flat (lowered by one semitone)

Noun

bemol m (plural bemóis)

1. (music) flat (note played a semitone lower than a natural)

Romanian

Etymology

From French bémol or Italian bemolle

Noun

bemol m (plural bemoli)

1. bemol

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From B (“musical letter”) + mol, from mole (“soft”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?mol/, [be?mol]

Adjective

bemol (plural bemoles)

1. (music) flat

Derived terms

• abemolar

Noun

bemol m (plural bemoles)

1. (music) flat symbol

Further reading

• “bemol” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

be- +? moil, from French mouiller to wet; but compare also Old English bimolen to soil, and English mole.

Verb

bemoil (third-person singular simple present bemoils, present participle bemoiling, simple past and past participle bemoiled)

1. (obsolete) To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew Act IV, Scene I.

     Tell thou the tale: –but hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard, in how miry a place; how she was bemoiled; ... .

Anagrams

• -mobile, Mobile, emboil, emboli, mobile