белка

From бел (bel, “white”) +‎ -ка (-ka).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛɫka]

белка • (belka) f (plural белки)

1. egg white, albumen, white (white of the egg; albumen)
2. sclera, white (white of the eye)
3. (nonstandard) white female (Caucasian person)

   Synonym: (standard) белкинка f (belkinka)

• белковина f (belkovina)

• црнка f (crnka)
• жолчка f (žolčka)

• бѣ́лка (bě́lka) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited from Old East Slavic бѣлъка (bělŭka, “squirrel”), diminutive of бѣла (běla, “squirrel”) (see -ка (-ka)), from бѣла вѣверица (běla věverica, “white squirrel”), from Proto-Slavic *bělъka. See бе́лый (bélyj, “white”), ве́верица (véverica, “squirrel; ermine, stoat”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbʲeɫkə]

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бе́лка • (bélka) f anim (genitive бе́лки, nominative plural бе́лки, genitive plural бе́лок, related adjective бе́личий, diminutive бе́лочка)

1. squirrel (mammal)

   Synonym: (regional) ве́кша (vékša)

• IPA^(key): [bʲɪɫˈka]

белка́ • (belká) m inan

1. genitive singular of бело́к (belók)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “белка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “белка”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 82
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “белка”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 217