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.

• bil

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bělъ. First attested in the 15th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /bjɛːlʲ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bjelʲ/

biel m animacy unattested

1. wheat flour
   • 1930 [c. 1455], “Ex”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎, 9, 32:

     Pszenycza a byel nye gest zabyta (triticum autem et far non sunt laesa)

     [Pszenica a biel nie jest zabita (triticum autem et far non sunt laesa)]

   • 1874-1891 [15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume XXIV, page 65:

     Saciatus hoc ex adipe bely tritico

     [Saciatus hoc ex adipe bieli tritico]

2. unsalted fat
   • 1900 [1472], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2‎, number 472:

     Beel, polecz slonini albugium, lardum

     [Biel, połeć, słoniny albugium, lardum]

3. mud, swamp
   • 1912 [1426], Monumenta Iuris cura praepositorum Chartophylacio Maximo Varsoviensi, volume V, page 40:

     Paludinem dictam byel

     [Paludinem dictam biel]

   • 1912 [1427], Monumenta Iuris cura praepositorum Chartophylacio Maximo Varsoviensi, volume V, page 82:

     Octo mansos... in vertice Maslowa byel sitos

     [Octo mansos... in vertice Masłowa biel sitos]

4. white lead
   • 1900 [1472], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2‎, number 33:

     Byel cerusa

     [Biel cerusa]

5. The meaning of this term is uncertain.
   • 1907 [c. 1470], Jakub Parkoszowic, edited by Jan Łoś, Traktat o ortografii polskiej‎, Żurawica, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Krakow, page 401:

     Omnes eciam vocales modo longantur modo patulo breviantur. Ex quarum longacione et breviacione diversus consurgit sensus diccionum. Exemplum... de e sicut beel, bel

     [Omnes eciam vocales modo longantur modo patulo breviantur. Ex quarum longacione et breviacione diversus consurgit sensus diccionum. Exemplum... de e sicut biēl, biĕl]

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “biel”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /bjɛl/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈbjel/

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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