biel

Borrowed from French bille.

• IPA^(key): /bil/

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• Hyphenation: biel
• Rhymes: -il

biel f (plural biels, diminutive bieltje n)

1. (archaic) railway sleeper

The plural form has been reanalysed as a new singular form. The original singular is no longer commonly used.

• biels
• dwarsligger

From Latin bellus.

biel m (plural biei, feminine biele, feminine plural bielis)

1. beautiful, handsome

• bielece

• bielo

From Latin bellus.

biel m (plural bai, feminine biela, feminine plural biele)

1. beautiful
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:

     Ma sulo i tuoi bai uoci, anema meîa,

     But only your beautiful eyes, oh soul of mine,

• balissa

From Arabic بالَ‎ (bāla).

• IPA^(key): /bɪːl/

biel (imperfect jbul)

1. (chiefly informal) to pee, piss, urinate

   Synonyms: għadda l-awrina, għamel l-awrina, (rarely) awrina

• This verb is usually equivalent to English “pee” or “piss” (though not as vulgar as the latter). However, biel is at times found in formal texts, as it is the inherited Arabic word and may thus be favoured in purist style.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bělъ.

biel

1. mud, swamp

• IPA^(key): /bjɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: biel

Inherited from Old Polish biel, from Proto-Slavic *bělь.

biel f

1. white (color)

   Synonym: białość

2. white (dye)
3. white (clothes)

   ubrany w biel ― dressed in white

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bělь.

biel m inan

1. sapwood

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

biel

1. second-person singular imperative of bielić

• biel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• biel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

biel (Cyrillic spelling биел)

1. Obsolete spelling of bijel