beleg

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛːlek/

beleg m (plural beleien)

1. priest

• belegiezh

• IPA^(key): /bəˈlɛx/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: be‧leg
• Rhymes: -ɛx

From Middle Dutch belegge, from beleggen (modern beleggen).

beleg n (uncountable)

1. (military) siege on a city
2. bread topping

(siege):

• belegering

(bread topping):

• broodbeleg
• broodbelegsel

• → Papiamentu: belèg

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

beleg

1. inflection of beleggen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• (Ijekavian): bìljeg
• (regional Ijekavian): bjèleg, bjèljeg

From Proto-Slavic *bělěgъ, from a Turkic language.

• IPA^(key): /běleɡ/
• Hyphenation: be‧leg

bèleg m (Cyrillic spelling бѐлег)

1. mark, marker

   tumorski beleg ― tumor marker

   molekularni beleg ― molecular marker

2. feature, trait, characteristic
3. birthmark
4. (Croatia) tax stamp, stamp (for applications and administrative expenses, not for postal services)

   svaka firma ima svoj logo i beleg ― each company has its own logo and a stamp

5. sign, signal, symptom

• “beleg” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Skok, Petar (1971) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Zagreb: JAZU, page 150
• “beleg”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Друго фототипско издање edition, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 171