белег

Continues Proto-Slavic *bělěgъ, ultimately of Oghur origin, from Proto-Turkic *bel- (“to denote”). Apparently, the Bulgarian term was reanalyzed to fit the Slavic morphology as if from Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”) + -ег (-eg). Cognate with Hungarian bélyeg (“post mark”), Chuvash палӑк (palăk, “sign, symbol”), Kazakh белгі (belgı, “mark, sign”). Akin to the nickname Бѣлгоунъ (Bělgunŭ) of tzar Ivan Asen I, one of the founders of the Second Bulgarian Tzardom.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛlɛk]

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бе́лег • (béleg) m

1. scar

   (by extension) → mark

2. sign, symbol

• бележа (beleža, “to note, to remark”)
• белязан (beljazan, “marked”)
• бележка (beležka, “note”)
• белчуг (belčug, “ring, handcuff”)

• “белег”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бѐлег”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 41

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bělěgъ, ultimately of Oghur origin, from Proto-Turkic *bel- (“to denote”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛlɛk]

белег • (beleg) m

1. mark

• бѝљег (Ijekavian)
• бјѐлег, бјѐљег (regional Ijekavian)

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

• IPA^(key): /běleɡ/
• Hyphenation: бе‧лег

бѐлег m (Latin spelling bèleg)

1. mark, marker

   туморски белег ― tumor marker

   молекуларни белег ― molecular marker

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

   свака фирма има свој лого и белег. ― Each company has its own logo and a stamp.

5. sign, signal, symptom

• “белег” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Skok, Petar (1971) “белег”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 150
• “белег”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 1, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 171