underwear, skivvies, underclothes, undergarment, undies · bedclothes, linen · washing (textiles that have been or are to be washed)
çekim: tamlayan белья́
köken: From бе́лый (bélyj) + -ьё (-ʹjó). Compare Polish bielizna. Also compare Hungarian fehérnemű, German Weißwaren, and English tighty whities or whites. Compare typologically Czech prádlo (“laundry (things to be laundered)”), prádélko (“diminutive of prádlo; lingerie”) (note бельи́шко (belʹíško)).
clothing, clothes · dress · washing (textiles that have been or are to be washed)
çekim: çoğul paltarlar · tamlayan paltarın
köken: Uncertain. Possibly cognate with Turkish partal (“worn-out”), from Persian پرتل (“pack, bundle, packet”), in which case derived through metathesis.
linen · a tank top, a singlet, (UK) a vest · a camisole
çekim: çoğul linnen · tamlayan linnes
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish linne, from Middle Low German linne. Doublet of lin. Arguably a back-formation by misinterpreting archaic linnet n (adjective), from linnen c (adjective), as a noun. See Proto-West Germanic *līnīn.
underwear, undergarments, lingerie · whites (linen, especially laundry, that is white)
çekim: tamlayan bielizny
köken: Inherited from Old Polish bielizna, from Proto-Slavic *bělizna. By surface analysis, biel + -izna. Compare Russian бельё (belʹjó) (whence Bulgarian бельо (beljo)). Also compare Hungarian fehérnemű, German Weißwaren, and English tighty whities or whites.
köken: From fehér (“white”) + nemű (“-wear”). Possibly coined under the influence of German Weißwaren. Compare Polish bielizna and English tighty whities or whites.
köken: Derived from the stem of the verb velt (“to full, walk (cloth)”). At first used only to refer to clothes that were to be fulled; the modern meanings 'linen', 'undergarment', 'bed clothes' are attested only from the 19th century on.