bal

Clipping of English Baluchi or Baluchi بلوچی.

bal

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Baluchi terms

bal (plural bals)

1. (Cornwall) The surface of a mine.
   • 1856, A Hand-book for Travellers in Devon & Cornwall, John Murray, page xxxvii:

     The surface of the mine is called the bal, and every level and shaft has a name.

   • 2014, Bill Smith, Pendeen, page 44:

     Penny arrived dressed for the day as a bal-maiden and told us all about the delights of a surface worker's life at a mine in Pendeen days, which was, she told us, what a bal-maiden did.

   • 2025, George Thomas Newton, The Long Winter Ends:

     "Oo will do un, maister?" asked Jim.
     "The bal authorities," said Hunt.

• bal-chatri

• IPA^(key): /bal/

bal class III gender m

1. ball

• SIL International (2020), “Abau Dictionary”, in Webonary.org‎^[2]

• 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).

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 (plural bala, definite bali, definite plural balat)

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

• balosh

• balë

• IPA^(key): [bɑɫ]

• Audio (Baku):

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

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

bal m (plural balyow)

1. (mining) digging, mine

• “bal” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

From Proto-Turkic *bal (“honey”).

bal (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. honey, mead
2. ball, dance party

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[3], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈbal]

bal

1. second-person singular imperative of balit

• IPA^(key): /bɑl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bal
• Rhymes: -ɑl

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

bal m (plural ballen, diminutive balletje n)

1. a ball or any object with such a shape

   De kinderen speelden met een rode bal in het park. ― The children played with a red ball in the park.

   De hond rende achter de bal aan en bracht hem terug naar zijn baasje. ― The dog chased after the ball and brought it back to its owner.

2. (informal) testicle, nut

   Hij kreeg een flinke trap tegen zijn ballen. ― He got a hard kick to his testicles.

3. (sports) pass, shot

   De voetballer gaf een perfecte bal naar zijn teamgenoot. ― The soccer player made a perfect pass to his teammate.

   Ze gaf een hoge bal naar voren om de aanval te beginnen. ― She sent a high pass forward to start the attack.

4. (informal, derogatory) toff, posh person

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

From French bal, from Late Latin ballare.

bal n (plural bals, diminutive balletje n)

1. ball, dance party

   Er was een groot feest in de stad en iedereen was uitgenodigd voor het bal.

   There was a big party in the city, and everyone was invited to the ball.

   Het eindejaarsbal op school was een groot succes.

   The end-of-year dance party at school was a great success.

   Ze dansten de hele nacht door op het zomerse bal in het park.

   They danced all night at the summer ball in the park.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. akin to sense spheric ball

bal

1. inflection of ballen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

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

• IPA^(key): /bal/

• Audio; “un bal”:

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• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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bal m (plural bals)

1. dance party, ball

• Haitian Creole: bal
• → Dutch: bal
  • Afrikaans: bal
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: bál
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bal
  • → Indonesian: bal
  • → Papiamentu: bala, balchi
  • → Saramaccan: balí
  • → Sranan Tongo: bal
  • → Sundanese: bal
• → Hunsrik: Baal
• → Russian: бал (bal), балъ (bal) — pre-1918 spelling
  • → Armenian: բալ (bal)
  • → Azerbaijani: bal
  • → Eastern Mari: бал (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

• IPA^(key): /bal/

From French bal (“dance”).

bal

1. dance party, ball

From French balle.

bal

1. bullet

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[4], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 19

Borrowed from English ball.

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

bâl f (plural bàlā̀bàlai)

1. ball

Uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *palɜ (“left”).^[1][2] Cognate with Udmurt паллян (palľan, “left”). First attested in 1086.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒl]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɒl

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

1. left

   Antonym: jobb

   bal kéz ― left hand

   a bal oldalon ― on the left side

2. (figuratively) bad, unlucky
3. (rare) left, left-wing (pertaining to the political left)

   Synonym: baloldali

   Antonym: jobb

• bal in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• bal in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbal/ [ˈbal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bal

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

bal (plural bal-bal)

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.

bal (plural bal-bal)

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

Unknown

bal (plural bal-bal)

1. (nautical) a package made of soft, non-rigid, box-shaped material

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?].

bal (plural bal-bal)

1. (music, dialect Java) musical notation

• “bal”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Proto-Turkic *bal.

bal

1. honey.

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “bal”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

• 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

• Dutch: bal
  • Afrikaans: bal
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: bál
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bal
  • → Indonesian: bal
  • → Papiamentu: bala, balchi
  • → Saramaccan: balí
  • → Sranan Tongo: bal
  • → Sundanese: 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 (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: baw, ba, baa, ball
• Yola: ball

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

• 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 prøver 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.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /baːlʲ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bɒlʲ/

bal m animacy unattested

1. bale (rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation)
   • 1890 [1481], Adam Chmiel, editor, Zbiór dokumentów znajdujących się w Bibliotece hr. Przezdzieckich w Warszawie‎^[5], page 41:

     Telam aut his similia ulna extra cameras mercimoniorum vendere audeant, preter... barchanum..., et telam stamine al. palem dumtaxat quilibet extra cameras predictas vendat

     [Telam aut his similia ulna extra cameras mercimoniorum vendere audeant, preter... barchanum..., et telam stamine al. balem dumtaxat quilibet extra cameras predictas vendat]

• Polish: bal
• Silesian: bal

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “bal”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bal

Borrowed from French bal.^[1] First attested in 1665–1683.^[2]

bal m inan (diminutive balik)

1. ball (formal dance)

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:impreza

• → Silesian: bŏl

Borrowed from German Balken / Baal.^[1] First attested in 1594.^[3]

bal m inan

1. log (large cut piece of wood)

   Synonyms: dyl, kloc

Inherited from Old Polish bal.

bal m inan

2. 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^[6] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “bal”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[7] (in Polish)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “bal”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “bal”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bal”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 86
• bal in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Jan Łoś (1886), “bal”, in “Gwara opoczyńska. Studium dialektologiczne”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (1), volume 11, page 182

From Late Latin ballāre (“dance”).

• (Central Romagnol) IPA^(key): [ˈbaɐ̯l]
  • (Ravenna) 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, Milena Hübschmannová, “Origin of Roma”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎^[8], archived from the original on 27 October 2014:

     mire bala kale hin

     My hair is black

• balalo

• 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^[9], 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] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 71-72

Borrowed 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 *bal. Compare to Turkish bal, Kazakh бал (bal), etc.

• (Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /pɑl/

bal (3rd person possessive balı, plural ballar)

1. honey

   Bal köp vosı acidır, yilım köp vosı yaxılmes.

   Excess honey loses its sweetness; excess glue loses its grip.^[1]

• bal cüyin (“bee”)

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “pal”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow: Nauka, page 435
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985), “bal”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[10], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 7
• 马伟 [Ma Wei], 朝克 [Chaoke] (2014), “bal”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader]‎^[11], 1^st 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 [Sā-Wéi-Hàn cídiǎn, Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 32
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “bal”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[12], 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^[13] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 25

bal m inan (Cyrillic spelling бал)

1. ball (dance)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bal

Borrowed from German Ball.

bal m inan (related adjective balowy)

1. ball (round or roundish object, most commonly used in games)
2. ball game (game with such an object)

• bala

Inherited from Old Polish bal.

bal m inan

1. bale (rounded bundled goods, especially straw etc.)

• bala

Likely borrowed from German Schneeball (“snowball; viburnum”), after which the second element was clipped and nativized as bal.

bal m inan

1. hortensia, hydrangea (any of several shrubs, of the genus Hydrangea)
2. viburnum, guelder rose, any shrub of genus Viburnum

• bala

• bal in dykcjonorz.eu
• bal in silling.org
• Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022), “bal”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 62
• Aleksandra Wencel (2023), “bal”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 38

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bal

Borrowed from German Ball (“toy”).

bal m inan (diminutive balëk, related adjective balôwy)

1. ball (round or roundish object, most commonly used in games)

Borrowed from German Ball (“dance”).

bal m inan (diminutive balëk, related adjective balôwy)

1. ball (formal dance)

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “bãl”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[14] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 13

• IPA^(key): /pa⁵⁵/

bal

1. fish

bal

1. romanization of 𒁄 (bal)

From Dutch bal

bal

1. a ball or any object with such a shape
2. football; the ball used in a "football" game

   Ujang nepi ka ayeuna kénéh teu tiasa maén bal.

   Ujang still can't play football to this day.

• maén bal
• méngbal

From Low German bal, bale, ultimately from the root of boll (“ball”).

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 Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “bal”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “bal”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• 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 *bal (“honey”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɫ/, [ˈbɑɫ̟̊]

• Audio:

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bal (definite accusative balı, plural ballar)

1. honey

Other scripts
Latin	bal‍
Cyrillic	бал‍
Arabic	بال

From Proto-Turkic *bal (“honey”).

bal (definite accusative baly, plural ballar)

1. honey

   Synonym: asal

• “bal” in Enedilim.com
• “bal” in Webonary.org

Volapük numbers ^(edit)

		10
	←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: bal     Ordinal: balid     Adverbial: balna

bal

1. one (1)

bal (definite form bal bi)

1. ball

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

bal

1. fish