bellen

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: bel‧len
• Rhymes: -ɛlən

From Middle Dutch bellen. Equivalent to bel +‎ -en.

bellen

1. (intransitive) to ring, like using a bell
2. (transitive) to call, by bell (originally) or (now mostly) telephone; to dial

• → Indonesian: bel
• → Papiamentu: bèl
• → Sranan Tongo: bèl
  • → Trió: bel

From Middle Dutch bellen, from Old Dutch *bellan, from Proto-West Germanic *bellan, from Proto-Germanic *bellaną. Cognate with English bellow, German bellen and Russian блеять (blejatʹ, “to bleat”).

bellen

1. (regional, Southern) (intransitive) to bark, like a canine
2. (regional, Southern) (transitive) to bark, scold, insult, rage at

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bellen

1. plural of bel

From Middle High German bëllen, from Old High German bellan from Proto-Germanic *bellaną, cognate with English bellow, Russian блеять (blejatʹ, “baa", "bleat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlən/

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• Hyphenation: bel‧len
• Homophone: Bällen

bellen (weak, third-person singular present bellt, past tense bellte, past participle gebellt, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to bark:
   1. (literally) like a canine
      • 1929, Kurt Tucholsky, Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband), Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, page 138:

        Ein Hund bellt, wenn er mit den Sinnen etwas wahrgenommen hat; daraufhin, weil ihn sein Bellen erschreckt und aufregt, und des weiteren, weil sich das wahrgenommene Objekt um ihn kümmert, nicht um ihn kümmert oder davonläuft.

        A dog barks when he perceived something with the senses; thereupon, because his barking scares and upsets him, and furthermore, because the perceived object looks after him, does not look after him, or runs away.

   2. (figuratively) in a rude, loud human voice

Obsolete forms are present billt, preterite ball or boll, past participle gebollen.

• Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht

• “bellen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “bellen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “bellen” in Duden online
• “bellen” in OpenThesaurus.de
• “bellen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlən/

bellen

1. plural of bel