belə

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		белә
Abjad		بئله

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [beˈlæ]
• Hyphenation: be‧lə

Etymology 1

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (böyle), which is attested in the XIVth-century Anatolian epic Danishmendnâme. Origination from merging of bu (“this”) and ile, ilə (“with”) (thus, from an expression that had the meaning with it) has been suggested. Starostin et al. reject this with a reference to a proposed Proto-Turkic form *bEd-le , which they reconstruct with the support of Karakhanid [script needed] (böyle), Turkish böyle, Turkmen beýle and Azerbaijani belə, that is, based almost exclusively on Oghuz material.

Alternative forms

• beylə (archaic)

Determiner

belə

1. such; like this (that, these, those)

   Belə insanlarla bir yerdə işləmək olmur.

   It's impossible to work with such people.

   Synonym: bu cür

Adverb

belə

1. so; in this way; like this (that)

   Bu həmişə belə olub, belə də qalacaq.

   It's always been like this, and it's going to remain like this.

2. (when added to sentences containing wh-questions), surprisement or disfavour

   Gecənin bu vaxtında hara gedirsən belə?

   Where are you going at this late hour?

3. (with ablative) after, since

   bundan belə ― after this

   o gündən belə ― since that day

See also

• elə

Derived terms

• belə-belə (“such”) (used with plural referents)
• beləcə (“in this manner”)
• belənçik (“like this”) (colloquial)
• beləlikdə (“in such a case”)
• beləliklə (“thus”)
• elə-belə (“for no reason, just like that; so-so”)

Etymology 2

Probably from Proto-Turkic *bile (“with, together, also”), whence also the postposition ilə (“with”). Cognate with Turkish bile; possibly contaminated by Etymology 1.

Adverb

belə

1. (used after the verb) even

   Synonym: hətta