ᠪᠡᠯᠡᠨ
Middle Mongol
Alternative scripts
- (Arabic script) بیلان (bylʾn /belen/)
- (Han script) 別連 (biélián /belen/)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *belen.
Adjective
ᠪᠡᠯᠡᠨ (belen)
Descendants
- Central Mongolic:
- Daur: belen
- Southern Mongolic:
- → Kyrgyz: белен (belen)
- → Southern Altai: белен (belen)
- → Tuvan: белен (belen)
Further reading
- D. Tumurtogoo, editor (2006), Mongolian monuments in Uighur-Mongolian script (XIII-XVI centuries) (Language and Linguistics monograph series; A-11), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 320
- Haenisch, Erich (1939), Wörterbuch zu Mangḥol un Niuca Tobca’an (Yüan-Ch‘ao Pi-Shi) geheime Geschichte der Mongolen [Dictionary of the Secret History of the Mongols] (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, page 14
- Poppe, Nicholas (1938), Mongolʹskij Slovarʹ Mukaddimat al-Adab[1] (in Russian), page 116
- Nugteren, Hans (2011), Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)[2], Utrecht: LOT, page 280
- Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2015), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 84
Mongolian
Adjective
ᠪᠡᠯᠡᠨ • (belen)
- Mongolian spelling of бэлэн (belen)