ᠪᠡᠯᠡᠨ

Middle Mongol

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *belen.

Adjective

ᠪᠡᠯᠡᠨ (belen)

  1. ready

Descendants

  • Central Mongolic:
  • Daur: belen
  • Southern Mongolic:
    • East Yugur: belen
    • Shirongolic:
      • Bonan: [Term?] (bəlaŋ)
      • Dongxiang: belien
      • Kangjia: [Term?] (beilian)
      • Monguor:
        • Mangghuer: [Term?] (bulen)
        • Mongghul: [Term?] (bulen)
  • 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)

  1. Mongolian spelling of бэлэн (belen)

Further reading


  • ᠪᠡᠯᠡᠨ
    [belen]”, in Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь [Dictionary of the Mongolian Language] (in Mongolian), Institute of Linguistics of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2016–present