belə
Azerbaijani
Cyrillic | белә | |
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Abjad | بئله |
Pronunciation
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[1]. Starostin et al. reject this with a reference to a proposed Proto-Turkic form *bEd-le [2], which they reconstruct with the support of Karakhanid [script needed] (böyle)[3], Turkish böyle, Turkmen beýle and Azerbaijani belə, that is, based almost exclusively on Oghuz material.
Alternative forms
- beylə (archaic)
Determiner
belə
- such; like this (that, these, those)[4]
- Belə insanlarla bir yerdə işləmək olmur.
- It's impossible to work with such people.
- Synonym: bu cür
Adverb
belə
- 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.
- (when added to sentences containing wh-questions), surprisement or disfavour
- Gecənin bu vaxtında hara gedirsən belə?
- Where are you going at this late hour?
- (with ablative) after, since
- bundan belə ― after this
- o gündən belə ― since that day
See also
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
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “böyle”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bEd-le”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Borovkov, Aleksandr Konstantinovič (1963) “бöјлä”, in Leksika sredneaziatskovo tefsira. [Lexicon of the Central Asian Tafsir], Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Vostočnoj Literatury, pages 107-108
- ^ Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “belə”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language] (in Azerbaijani), volume I, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, pages 255-256