bal

bal

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Baluchi.

• IPA^(key): /bal/

From Dutch bal, from Middle Dutch bal, from Old Dutch *bal, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

bal (plural balle, diminutive balletjie)

1. A ball (spherical object, used as a toy).

• basketbal
• handbal
• muurbal
• pluimbal
• sokkerbal
• tennisbal
• voetbal

From Dutch bal, from French bal.

bal (plural balle or bals)

1. A ball (formal dance event).

• balo

From Proto-Albanian *bala, cognate to Lithuanian bãlas (“white”), Latvian bàls (“pale”) and Greek (Hes.) φαλός λευκός (falós lefkós), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-.[1]

bal m (indefinite plural bala, definite singular bali, definite plural balat)

1. dog or goat (with a white spot on the forehead)

• balosh

• balë

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bạl (“honey”).

• IPA^(key): [bɑɫ]

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bal (definite accusative balı, plural ballar)

1. honey

Borrowed from Russian балл (ball), from French balle (“voting ball”).

bal (definite accusative balı, plural ballar)

1. point
2. mark, grade, score

Borrowed from Russian бал (bal), from French bal, from Late Latin ballō.

bal (definite accusative balı, plural ballar)

1. ball, dance

From Proto-Turkic *bạl (“honey”).

bal

1. honey, mead
2. ball, dance party

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈbal]

bal

1. second-person singular imperative of balit

• IPA^(key): /bɑl/

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• Hyphenation: bal
• Rhymes: -ɑl

From Middle Dutch bal, from Old Dutch *bal, from Proto-Germanic *balluz. Doublet of baal.

bal m (plural ballen, diminutive balletje n)

1. a ball or any object with such a shape
2. (informal) testicle, nut
3. (sports) pass, shot

   Lekker balletje! ― Nice pass/shot!

4. (informal, derogatory) toff, posh person

• Afrikaans: bal
• → Caribbean Hindustani: bál
• → Caribbean Javanese: bal
• → Indonesian: bal
• → Papiamentu: bala, balchi
• → Saramaccan: balí
• → Sranan Tongo: bal

From French bal, from Late Latin ballare.

bal n (plural bals, diminutive balletje n)

1. ball, dance party

• Negerhollands: bal
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: bal
• →? Sranan Tongo: bal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bal

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

From Old French bal, deverbal of baller, from Late Latin ballare (“to dance”).

• IPA^(key): /bal/

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bal m (plural bals)

1. dance party, ball

• → Dutch: bal
  • Afrikaans: bal
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: bál
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bal
  • → Indonesian: bal
  • → Papiamentu: bala, balchi
  • → Saramaccan: balí
  • → Sranan Tongo: bal
• → Russian: бал (bal)
  • → Armenian: բալ (bal)
  • → Azerbaijani: bal
  • → Georgian: ბალი (bali)
  • → Kazakh: бал (bal)
  • → Yakut: баал (baal)

• “bal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

French bal (“dance”).

bal

1. dance party, ball

Borrowed from English ball.

• IPA^(key): /bâl/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bâl]

bâl f (plural bàlā̀bàlai)

1. ball

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒl]

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• Rhymes: -ɒl

bal (not generally comparable, comparative balabb, superlative legbalabb)

1. left

   bal kéz ― left hand

   a bal oldalon ― on the left side

   Antonym: jobb

2. (figuratively) bad, unlucky

• bal in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• bal in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

From Dutch bal (“ball”), from Middle Dutch bal, from Old Dutch *bal, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbal]
• Hyphenation: bal

bal (first-person possessive balku, second-person possessive balmu, third-person possessive balnya)

1. (colloquial) ball, a solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

   Synonym: bola

From Dutch baal, from Middle Dutch bale, from Old French bale.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbal]
• Hyphenation: bal

bal (first-person possessive balku, second-person possessive balmu, third-person possessive balnya)

1. bale, a rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
2. A closed bag or package of wares.

   Synonyms: bandela, karung

• “bal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• bol, ból, baol (some dialects, mainly in West-Limburg, sense 1, 2, and 3)
• baal
• Ball (Eupen, Krefeld)
• Balle (Eupen)

From Middle Dutch bal, from Old Dutch *bal, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

• IPA^(key): /bɑ(ː)l/, [bɑ(ː)˨l], [bɑ(ː)˦l]

  IPA^(key): (Tungers) [bɑ̃l]

• Hyphenation: bal
• Rhymes: -ɑl, -ɑːl

bal m (plural balle or bel, diminutive belke or belsje)

1. (most dialects) ball (round or roundish object, most commonly used in games)
2. (most dialects, informal) testicle, nut
3. (most dialects, anatomy) ball (of the hand or foot)
4. (most dialects, chiefly in the negative) anything

   Heer snap dao geinen bal vaanaof. (Maastrichtian)

   He doesn't understand anything.

From Middle High German balde, from Old High German baldo, adverb of bald, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognate with German bald, Dutch boud, English bold.

• IPA^(key): /baːl/
  • Rhymes: -aːl
  • Homophone: Bal

bal

1. nearly, almost
2. soon

From Old Dutch *bal, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

bal m

1. ball (round object), sphere
2. something worthless

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: bal
  • Afrikaans: bal
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: bál
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bal
  • → Indonesian: bal
  • → Papiamentu: bala, balchi
  • → Saramaccan: balí
  • → Sranan Tongo: bal
• Limburgish: bal
• West Flemish: bol

• “bal (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bal”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• ball, balle

Inherited from Old English *beall, from Proto-West Germanic *ballu, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

• IPA^(key): /bal/

bal (plural balles)

1. A ball (an object of spherical shape)
2. A rounded or spherical lump or bump, especially in medical terminology; a boil.
3. A ball used in sports or other entertainment.
4. The eyeball; the eye viewed as a spherical object.
5. A sport with a ball as a key component of play.
6. One's head (top part of one's body)
7. A projectile resembling a ball in form
8. (rare) A node of muscles supporting the fingers or toes.
9. (rare) A ball-shaped container or box.
10. (rare, vulgar) One's testes (compare to the much more frequent Modern English sense)

• ballok
• fotbal

• English: ball
• Scots: baw, ba, baa, ball
• Yola: ball

• “bal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.

• IPA^(key): /ᵐbɑl/

bal

1. fish

• Heather and Don Mc Lean, North Wahgi (Yu We) Organised Phonology Data (2005), p. 2

From the verb bala.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːl/

bal n (definite singular balet, uncountable)

1. bother, fuss, trouble (annoying, difficult or stressful activity)

   Det blir berre bal om me prøvar å gjera det no.

   It will only cause bother if we try to do that now.

• “bal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Middle High German balle. First attested in 1481.

bal m

1. bale (rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation)

• Polish: bal

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “bal”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /bal/

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bal

Borrowed from French bal,[1] from Late Latin ballare (“to dance”).

bal m inan (diminutive balik)

1. ball (formal dance)

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:impreza

Borrowed from German Balken or Baal.[1]

bal m inan

1. log (large cut piece of wood)

   Synonyms: dyl, kloc

Inherited from Old Polish bal, from Middle High German balle. First attested in 1481.[2]

bal m inan

1. bale (rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation, ten reams)

   Synonyms: balot, bela

• bal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Late Latin ballāre (“dance”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈbaɐ̯l]

bal m (plural bël)

1. dance

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮 (vāla), from Sanskrit वाल (vāla). Cognate with Hindi बाल (bāl), Punjabi ਵਾਲ (vāl, “hair”).

bal m (nominative plural bala)

1. a single hair
2. (in the plural) hair

   2002 July 1, Milena Hübschmannová, “Origin of Roma”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎, archived from the original on 2014-10-27:

   mire bala kale hin

   My hair is black

• balalo

• Kalo Finnish Romani: baalo

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “vāˊla”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 675
• Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “bal”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 18
• Yaron Matras (2002), “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 40
• Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o bal, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 71-72

From French bal.

bal n (plural baluri)

1. ball (party)

Borrowed from French bal, from Late Latin ballare.

bal m (plural bals)

1. ball (formal dance)

From Proto-Turkic *bạl. Compare to Kazakh бал (bal), etc.

• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): [pɑl], [pɑɫ]

bal (3rd person possessive [[{{{1}}}#Salar|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Salar|{{{2}}}]])

1. honey

• balçüyin

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “pal”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 435
• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985), “bal”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, OCLC 17467570, page 7
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2014), “bal”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader], 1st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 (Social Science Literature Press), →ISBN, page 17

• Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “bal”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 32
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “bal”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 54

From Proto-Zapotec *kwella(k).

bal

1. fire

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 25

bal m (Cyrillic spelling бал)

1. ball (dance)

• IPA^(key): /pa⁵⁵/

bal

1. fish

bal

1. Romanization of 𒁄 (bal)

bal c

1. bale, bundle (big packet of things)
2. Formal gathering for dance, ball

bale

• bala
• balning
• balpress
• halmbal
• höbal
• pappersbal

ball

• baldrottning
• balett
• balklänning
• balsal
• maskeradbal
• operabal

• bal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• bl a, bl.a.

bal

1. honey

bal

1. Alternative spelling of pa·l

• Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

From Ottoman Turkish بال‎, from Proto-Turkic *bạl (“honey”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɫ/

bal (definite accusative balı, plural ballar)

1. honey

From Proto-Turkic *bạl (“honey”).

bal (definite accusative baly, plural ballar)

1. honey

bal

1. one

• balam, balamovik
• balan
• balat, balatam, balatik, balato
• baläd, balädön, balädam, balädü
  • balädik, balädikön, balädikam
    • balädükön, balädükam
  • baibalädik
• baläl, balälik
• balid, balido
• balik, baliko
• balil
• balion, balionan, balionat
• balna, balnaik
• balo
• balön
• balug, balugön
  • balugäl, balugälik
  • balugik, balugiko
    • balugükön
• balüd
• balüf
• balüm
• balyim

bal (definite form bal bi)

1. ball

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN

bal

1. fish