Arabic edit

Root
ب ل ع (b-l-ʕ)

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

بَلُّوعَة (ballūʕaf (plural بَلُّوعَات (ballūʕāt) or بَلَالِيع (balālīʕ))

  1. sinkhole, drain, sewer

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Catalan: albelló
  • Spanish: albañal

References edit

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بلوعة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 112
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “بلوعة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 153
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “بلوعة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 250
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بلوعة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 109