See also: բամ

Armenian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Armenian բալ (bal), from Persian بالو (bâlu).

Noun edit

բալ (bal)

  1. sour cherry (fruit)
Declension edit
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Etymology 2 edit

The literary sense "fog" is a learned borrowing from Old Armenian բալ (bal). The dialectal sense is inherited from the same, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥H-i-, from *bʰel- (shiny, white).

Noun edit

բալ (bal)

  1. fog
  2. (dialectal) white fleck
Declension edit

Etymology 3 edit

From Russian балл (ball).

Noun edit

բալ (bal)

  1. point, mark, grade, score, magnitude
    6 բալ ուժգնությամբ երկրաշարժ6 bal užgnutʻyamb erkrašarža 6 magnitude earthquake
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Alternative forms edit

Etymology 4 edit

From Russian бал (bal).

Noun edit

բալ (bal) (colloquial)

  1. ball, dance
    Synonym: պարահանդես (parahandes)
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Middle Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Persian بالو (bâlu).

Noun edit

բալ (bal), genitive singular բալի (bali)

  1. sweet cherry (fruit)
  2. sour cherry (fruit)

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: բալ (bal)

References edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բալ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բալ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 263
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “բալ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 105b

Old Armenian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥H-i-, from *bʰel- (shiny, white).[1][2][3] See also բիլ (bil).

Noun edit

բալ (bal)

  1. fog, mist
  2. (rare) cloud of smoke
  3. (as an adjective, of sight) hazy, dim
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 40–41
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բալ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  3. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 162

Further reading edit

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բալ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բալ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

բալ (bal)

  1. infinitive of բամ (bam)
Declension edit