bellen
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛlə(n)/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: bel‧len
- Rhymes: -ɛlən
Etymology 1
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Equivalent to bel + -en.
Verb
bellen
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
- aanbellen
- afbellen
- beller
- beltoon
- belkrediet
- doorbellen
- gebel
- inbellen
- nabellen
- opbellen
- platbellen
- rondbellen
- terugbellen
- uitbellen
- videobellen
Etymology 2
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Dutch *bellan, from Proto-West Germanic *bellan, from Proto-Germanic *bellaną. Cognate with English bellow, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and Russian блеять (blejatʹ, “to bleat”).
Verb
bellen
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
German
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old High German bellan from Proto-Germanic *bellaną, cognate with English bellow, Russian блеять (blejatʹ, “baa", "bleat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛlən/
Audio (Austria) (file) Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bel‧len
- Homophone: Bällen
Verb
bellen (weak, third-person singular present bellt, past tense bellte, past participle gebellt, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to bark:
- (literally) like a canine
- 1929, Kurt Tucholsky, Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband), Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, page 138:
- Ein Hund bellt, wenn er mit den Sinnen etwas wahrgenommen hat; daraufhin, weil ihn sein Bellen erschreckt und aufregt, und des weiteren, weil sich das wahrgenommene Objekt um ihn kümmert, nicht um ihn kümmert oder davonläuft.
- A dog barks when he perceived something with the senses; thereupon, because his barking scares and upsets him, and furthermore, because the perceived object looks after him, does not look after him, or runs away.
- (figuratively) in a rude, loud human voice
- (literally) like a canine
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Obsolete forms are present billt, preterite ball or boll, past participle gebollen.