# bedel
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pedellus, bedellus, bidellus, from Middle English bedel; cognate with beadle.

### Noun

bedel (plural bedels)
* (historical) An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.
    Oxford today has four bedels, representing Divinity, Law, Medicine, and Arts.
** 1837, William Harrison Ainsworth, “The Rector”, in Crichton, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, page 59:Next came the bedels and minor-bedels of all the Faculties, who by some accident were so jumbled together, that it was impossible to determine or arrange any order of precedence. […] These bedels or greffiers were jolly robustious souls, bending beneath the weight of their ponderous silver maces, and attired in gowns of black, blue, violet, or dark red, each colour denoting the Faculty to which the wearer pertained.

#### Derived terms

* bedelship

### Anagrams

* Lebed, debel, beled, deleb, bleed

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch bedelen.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

bedel (present bedel, present participle bedelende, past participle gebedel)
* To beg

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

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### Noun

bedel
* A toll, due, fee, contribution

#### Declension
### References

* “bedel”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɛdɛl]
* Rhymes: -ɛdel
* Hyphenation: be‧del

### Noun

bedel
* genitive plural of bedla

## Dutch
### Etymology 1

From bedelen.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbeːdəl/
* Hyphenation: be‧del
* Rhymes: -eːdəl

#### Noun

bedel m (plural bedels, diminutive bedeltje n)
* a charm (small trinket or pendant on a bracelet or necklace)
* the practice of begging, mendicancy

##### Usage notes

In the sense “charm” most commonly used in the diminutive form bedeltje. When used as the first component in a compound noun, however, as in bedelarmband = bedel +‎ armband, the main form is used.

##### Synonyms

* (begging): gebedel
* (begging): bedelen

##### Derived terms

* bedelbidden
* bedelbruiker

### Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin bidellus, bedellus, pedellus, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *budilaz.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bəˈdɛl/
* Hyphenation: be‧del
* Rhymes: -ɛl

#### Noun

bedel m (plural bedels, diminutive bedeltje n)
* Obsolete form of pedel (“beagle, academic usher”).

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbeːdəl/
* Hyphenation: be‧del
* Rhymes: -eːdəl

#### Verb

bedel
* inflection of bedelen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* beeld, belde

## Old French
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin bidellus, bedellus, pedellus, from a merger of Frankish *bidil (“candidate, volunteer”) (from Proto-Germanic *bidilaz (“seeker”), from *bidjaną (“to ask, beseech”)) and Frankish *budil (“herald, beadle”) (from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”)). Akin to Old High German bitil (“candidate”), Old High German butil (“beadle”) (German Büttel), Old English bydel (“apparitor, messenger, beadle”) (English beadle).

### Noun

bedel oblique singular, m (oblique plural bedeaus or bedeax or bediaus or bediax or bedels, nominative singular bedeaus or bedeax or bediaus or bediax or bedels, nominative plural bedel)
* A beadle, academic usher

#### Descendants

* Middle French: bedeau
** French: bedeau
* → Italian: bidello

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beˈdel/ [beˈð̞el]
* Rhymes: -el
* Syllabification: be‧del

### Noun

bedel m or f by sense (plural bedeles)
* janitor, porter

#### See also

* conserje m
* portero m

### Further reading

* “bedel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بدل, from Arabic بَدَل (badal, “substitution, equivalent”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beˈdel/, [beˈdæl]
* Hyphenation: be‧del

### Adjective

bedel
* equivalent
    Bir dolar, beş Türk lirasına bedel. ― One dollar is equivalent to five Turkish liras.

### Noun

bedel (definite accusative bedeli, plural bedeller)
* value, price
    Synonyms: paha, fiyat
* substitute
    Synonym: yedek
* substitute hajji (someone who performs the hajj for payment in place of someone else)

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
bedel
bedeller
definite accusative
bedeli
bedelleri
dative
bedele
bedellere
locative
bedelde
bedellerde
ablative
bedelden
bedellerden
genitive
bedelin
bedellerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
bedelim
bedellerim
2nd singular
bedelin
bedellerin
3rd singular
bedeli
bedelleri
1st plural
bedelimiz
bedellerimiz
2nd plural
bedeliniz
bedelleriniz
3rd plural
bedelleri
bedelleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
bedelimi
bedellerimi
2nd singular
bedelini
bedellerini
3rd singular
bedelini
bedellerini
1st plural
bedelimizi
bedellerimizi
2nd plural
bedelinizi
bedellerinizi
3rd plural
bedellerini
bedellerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
bedelime
bedellerime
2nd singular
bedeline
bedellerine
3rd singular
bedeline
bedellerine
1st plural
bedelimize
bedellerimize
2nd plural
bedelinize
bedellerinize
3rd plural
bedellerine
bedellerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
bedelimde
bedellerimde
2nd singular
bedelinde
bedellerinde
3rd singular
bedelinde
bedellerinde
1st plural
bedelimizde
bedellerimizde
2nd plural
bedelinizde
bedellerinizde
3rd plural
bedellerinde
bedellerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
bedelimden
bedellerimden
2nd singular
bedelinden
bedellerinden
3rd singular
bedelinden
bedellerinden
1st plural
bedelimizden
bedellerimizden
2nd plural
bedelinizden
bedellerinizden
3rd plural
bedellerinden
bedellerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
bedelimin
bedellerimin
2nd singular
bedelinin
bedellerinin
3rd singular
bedelinin
bedellerinin
1st plural
bedelimizin
bedellerimizin
2nd plural
bedelinizin
bedellerinizin
3rd plural
bedellerinin
bedellerinin
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
bedelim
bedellerim
2nd singular
bedelsin
bedellersin
3rd singular
bedel bedeldir
bedeller bedellerdir
1st plural
bedeliz
bedelleriz
2nd plural
bedelsiniz
bedellersiniz
3rd plural
bedeller
bedellerdir :

#### Derived terms

* bedelli

### References

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bedel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük