German

Noun

Beleg m ‎(genitive Belegs or Beleges, plural Belege)

1. (countable) evidence; piece of evidence (particularly in the context of science)
   • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 30/2010, page 62:

     Die Turbulenzen am Kakaomarkt sind nur der jüngste Beleg dafür, dass wieder spekuliert wird, dass die internationalen Finanzmärkte die Agrarrohstoffe erneut entdeckt haben.

     The turbulences on the cocoa market are only the most recent evidence that speculation is happening again, that the international financial markets have discovered anew the agricultural commodities.

2. receipt; voucher; record

   Wir sammeln alle Belege für die Steuererklärung.

   We’re gathering all receipts for the tax return.

3. reference

Declension

Synonyms

• (evidence): Indiz

See also

• Beweis

Dutch

Noun

beleg n ‎(uncountable)

1. (military) siege on a city (shortened form of belegering)
2. bread topping

Synonyms

• (siege): belegering
• (bread topping): broodbeleg, broodbelegsel

Related terms

• belegeren

Verb

beleg

1. first-person singular present indicative of beleggen
2. imperative of beleggen

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bělěgъ, from a Turkic language.

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): bìljeg
• (regional Ijekavian): bjèleg, bjèljeg

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /běleɡ/
• Hyphenation: be‧leg

Noun

bèleg m ‎(Cyrillic spelling бѐлег)

1. mark, marker

   tumorski beleg‎ ― tumor marker

   molekularni beleg‎ ― molecular marker

2. feature, trait, characteristic
3. birthmark
4. (Croatia) tax stamp, stamp (for applications and administrative expenses, not for postal services)

   svaka firma ima svoj logo i beleg‎ ― each company has its own logo and a stamp

5. sign, signal, symptom

Declension

References

• “beleg” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Skok, Petar (1971) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Zagreb: JAZU, page 150
• Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (1990, Друго фототипско издање), Матица српска, Matica hrvatska (Нови Сад, Zagreb), volume 1, page 171