beli

See also: Appendix:Variations of "beli"

English

Noun

beli (plural belis)

1. Alternative form of bael (“Indian tree”)

Anagrams

• -ible, bile, Biel, Lieb

Balinese

Romanization

beli

1. Romanization of ᬩᭂᬮᬶ

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɛ.li]

Verb

beli

1. inflection of belar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Iban

Etymology 1

From Proto-Austronesian *bəli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəli/
• Rhymes: -li
• Hyphenation: be‧li

Verb

beli

1. to buy

Derived terms

• meli

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beliʔ/
• Hyphenation: be‧li

Adjective

beli

1. stupid, idiotic

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay beli, from Proto-Malayic *bəli, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *bəli, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *bəli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəli, from Proto-Austronesian *bəli.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /bəˈli/ [bəˈli]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: be‧li

Verb

beli (root imperative actor beli)

1. to buy (to obtain for money)

Conjugation

Conjugation of beli (meng-, transitive)

root	beli
	active	reflective passive	ordinary passive	imperative	emphatic / jussive
	ordinary
active	membeli	terbeli	dibeli	beli	belilah
locative
perfective causative / applicative1	membelikan	terbelikan	dibelikan	belikan	belikanlah
	causative
active
locative
perfective causative / applicative1

¹ The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

• belian
• berbeli-beli
• berbeli-belian
• membeli
• membeli-beli
• membelikan
• pembeli
• pembelian
• terbeli

• beli angsur
• beli kembali
• beli panik

Further reading

• “beli” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.li/
• Rhymes: -ɛli
• Hyphenation: bè‧li

Verb

beli

1. inflection of belare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• bile

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English belly, from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”).

Noun

beli (plural beli dem, quantified beli)

1. (anatomy) stomach
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 4:2:

     Afta Jiizas neehn nyam notn fi uol-a faati die an faati nait, im beli did a baal tu ou im onggri.

     After Jesus hadn't eaten anything for forty days and forty nights in a row, his stomach rumbled, due to how hungry he was.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bəli, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *bəli, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *bəli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəli, from Proto-Austronesian *bəli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəli/
• Rhymes: -əli, -li, -i

• Audio (Malaysia):

  (file)

Verb

beli (Jawi spelling بلي)

1. to buy (to obtain for money)

Derived terms

• belian
• membeli
• membelikan
• pembelian
• terbeli

Descendants

• Indonesian: beli

Middle English

Noun

beli

1. Alternative form of bely