beden

bedén m

1. bulwark

• “beden”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

Derived from Arabic بَدَن (badan).

beden

1. body

   Synonyms: cısım, kevde, ceset, madde, ten

   beden azaları ― body parts

• “beden”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛdɛn]

beden f

1. genitive plural of bedna

beden n

1. definite singular of bede

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beden

1. plural of bede

• bieden

From Middle Low German bêden, from Old Saxon biodan. Compare Dutch bieden, German bieten, English bid, bede, Danish byde.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːdən/, [ˈbɛɪ̯dⁿn̩]

beden (third-person singular simple present büddt, past tense bood, past participle baden, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to offer
2. to provide

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• bäden
• biäden

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeːdⁿn̩]
• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛːdⁿn̩]
• IPA^(key): [ˈbiɛ̯dⁿn̩] 'Westphalian; also ⟨biäden⟩'
• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛɪ̯dⁿn̩] in accents that merged /ɛɪ̯ : eː/

beden

1. to pray

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• weak verb

From Old English bēodan, from Proto-West Germanic *beudan, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéwdʰeti.

• beoden, boden, buden, bieden, beiden, beade, bedden

beden (third-person singular simple present bedeth, present participle bedende, bedynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative bede, past participle boden)

1. To offer, present
2. To proclaim
3. To command (sense borrowed from bidden)

• English: bid, bede
• Scots: bid, bede

• “bẹ̄den, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From bede +‎ -en (plural suffix).

beden

1. (Early Middle English) plural of bede

From Old Saxon biodan, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną.

• Stem vowel: ê⁴
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /beːðən/

bêden

1. to offer

• bedd

beden (neuter bede, definite singular and plural bedne)

1. past participle of be
2. past participle of beda

• bende, edb-en, EDB-en

beden

1. past participle of biddan

From Proto-Slavic *bědьnъ. Morphologically, from beda +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /bèːdən/

bẹ́dən (comparative bẹ́dnejši, superlative nȁjbẹ́dnejši)

1. miserable

• “beden”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بدن (beden), from Arabic بَدَن (badan).

• IPA^(key): /beˈdɛn/, [beˈdæn]

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• Hyphenation: be‧den

beden (definite accusative bedeni, plural bedenler)

1. body

   Synonym: vücut

2. size (a specific set of dimensions for clothing)
3. ellipsis of beden eğitimi

   Sizin bedene kim giriyor?

   Who's your PE teacher?

   Could be understood as "Who enters your body?"

• In the sense "size", beden isn't used for footwear. See numara.

• “beden”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “beden”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “beden”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beden”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 485