বল্লাল

Old Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from a Dravidian source (compare Kannada ಬಲ್ಲಾಲ್ (ballāl)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɒlːɑlɒ/

Proper noun

বল্লাল (ballāla)

1. a male given name from Dravidian, held by Ballāla Sena (বল্লাল সেন), an early medieval king of Bengal

Further reading

• Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.‎^[1], volume vi, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.