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Adjective

belaj

1. plural of bela

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish بلا ‎(bela), from Arabic بَلَاء ‎(balāʾ, “misfortune, calamity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bělaːj/
• Hyphenation: be‧laj

Noun

bèlāj m ‎(Cyrillic spelling бѐла̄ј)

1. misfortune, calamity, trouble
2. (in phrases) devil

Declension

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:belaj.