balla
English edit
Noun edit
balla (plural ballas)
- (slang, nonstandard) Alternative form of baller (all senses except "person who divides molten metal")
Catalan edit
Verb edit
balla
- inflection of ballar:
Cimbrian edit
Noun edit
balla f (plural balln)
- (Mezzaselva) Alternative form of valla
Declension edit
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
Related to sense 3 of English bale (“to wrap into a bale”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balluz.
Verb edit
balla (third person singular past indicative ballaði, third person plural past indicative ballað, supine ballað)
- to wrap
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of balla (group v-30) | ||
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infinitive | balla | |
supine | ballað | |
participle (a6)1 | ballandi | ballaður |
present | past | |
first singular | balli | ballaði |
second singular | ballar | ballaði |
third singular | ballar | ballaði |
plural | balla | ballaðu |
imperative | ||
singular | balla! | |
plural | ballið! | |
1Only the past participle being declined. |
Further reading edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
balla
- third-person singular past historic of baller
Icelandic edit
Noun edit
balla
Ilocano edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ballá
Derived terms edit
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish *balla, from Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wallą (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈbˠɑl̪ˠə/
- (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈbˠal̪ˠə/
- Homophone: baladh (Cois Fharraige)
Noun edit
balla m (genitive singular balla, nominative plural ballaí)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- balla adóibe (“adobe wall”)
- balla beag (“bed-wall (in old houses)”)
- balla brící (“brick wall”)
- balla cloiche (“stone wall”)
- balla fód (“earthen wall”)
- balla fuar (“dry, unmortared, wall”)
- balla istigh (“inner wall; inner side of wall”)
- balla mór (“main wall”)
- balla taca (“breast-wall”)
- ballachlár (“wallboard”)
- ceannbhalla (“headwall; hanging wall”)
- cúlbhalla (“back wall”)
- donnóg an bhalla (“wall brown”)
- frithbhalla (“counterscarp”)
- idirbhalla (“party wall”)
- páipéar balla (“wallpaper”)
- taobh-bhalla (“side-wall”)
- uchtbhalla (“parapet”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
balla | bhalla | mballa |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “balla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Uncertain.
- From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu.
- From Lombardic *palla, *balla.
Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla.
Noun edit
balla f (plural balle, diminutive ballétta or ballettìna, augmentative ballóna, pejorative ballàccia)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
balla
- inflection of ballare:
Lombard edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from Lombardic *palla or Frankish *ball.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
balla f (plural ball)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
balla n pl
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
balla n pl
Romansch edit
Noun edit
balla f (plural ballas)
Synonyms edit
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish *balla, from Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wallą (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
balla m (genitive singular balla, plural ballachan)
Declension edit
Indefinite | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | balla | ballachan |
Genitive | balla | bhallachan |
Dative | balla | ballachan |
Definite | ||
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | (am) balla | (na) ballachan |
Genitive | (a') bhalla | (nam) ballachan |
Dative | (a') bhalla | (na) ballachan |
Vocative | (a) bhalla | (a) bhallachan |
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
balla | bhalla |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “balla”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page balla
Swedish edit
Adjective edit
balla