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.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese roupa, from Gothic *𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍀𐌰 (*raupa), from 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (raupjan). Cognate with Spanish ropa. See also Portuguese roubar.
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.
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.