բալ

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /bɑl/ [bɑl]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /pɑl/ [pʰɑl]

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

բալ • (bal)

1. sour cherry (fruit)

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”).

բալ • (bal)

1. fog
2. (dialectal) white fleck

Borrowed from Russian балл (ball).

բալ • (bal)

1. point, mark, grade, score, magnitude

   6 բալ ուժգնությամբ երկրաշարժ ― 6 bal užgnutʻyamb erkrašarž ― a 6 magnitude earthquake

• բալլ (ball) (dated)

Borrowed from Russian бал (bal).

բալ • (bal) (colloquial)

1. ball, dance

   Synonym: պարահանդես (parahandes)

From Persian بالو (bâlu).

բալ • (bal), genitive singular բալի (bali)

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

• Armenian: բալ (bal)

• 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, Ṙuben; Avetisyan, Henrik (2009), “բալ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 105b

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥H-i-, from *bʰel- (“shiny, white”).^[1][2][3]

բալ • (bal)

1. fog, mist
2. (rare) cloud of smoke
3. (as an adjective, of sight) hazy, dim

• Armenian: բալ (bal)

• 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

բալ • (bal)

1. infinitive of բամ (bam)