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.
underpants (boxers, briefs, panties, etc.) and bras: (in common informal usage) underwear · other clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing
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.