بال

It is explained^[1] as reanalysis of بَاءَ لِي (bāʔa lī, “it has come upon me”); predating Arabic literature by a millennium at least since there is^[2] Biblical Aramaic בָּל (bāl, “mind, heed”).

• IPA^(key): /baːl/

بَال • (bāl) m

1. mind, state
2. attention, mindfulness, heed

Denominal verb of بَوْل (bawl, “urine”), itself related by metathesis, univerbation, or another process happening before the record of Arabic, to وَبْل (wabl, “a heavy, large-dropped rain”).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /baː.la/
  • (Central Asia) IPA^(key): /boːl/^[4]

بَالَ • (bāla) I (non-past يَبُولُ (yabūlu), verbal noun بَوْل (bawl))

1. to urinate

• Maltese: biel

Derived from the active participle of بَلِيَ (baliya, “to wear out”).

• IPA^(key): /baː.lin/

بَالٍ • (bālin) (informal بَالِي (bālī), feminine بَالِيَة (bāliya), masculine plural بَالُون (bālūn), feminine plural بَالِيَات (bāliyāt))

1. worn out

   Synonym: بَلِيّ (baliyy)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

بَالِ • (bāli) (form III) /baː.li/

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of بَالَى (bālā)

• Freytag, Georg (1830), “بال”, 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 174
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “بال”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 180
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “بال”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “بال”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 124

Inherited from Karakhanid بال (bal), from Proto-Turkic *bal (“honey”). Cognate with Azerbaijani bal, Bashkir бал (bal), Chuvash пыл (pyl), Kazakh бал (bal), Kyrgyz бал (bal), Ottoman Turkish بال (bal), and Turkmen bal.

بال • (bal)

1. honey

   Synonym: عسل (asal)

2. mead

• Uyghur: بال (bal)
• Uzbek:

  Latin script: bol

  Cyrillic script: бол

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870), “بال”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[5] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 153

Borrowed from Urdu بال (bāl).

• (Lisan ud-Dawat) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑl/

بال • (bāl) m

1. Lisan ud-Dawat form of વાળ (vāḷ)

From Arabic بَال (bāl).

• IPA^(key): /baː.l/

بال • (bāl) m

1. mind

Inherited from Sanskrit वाल (vāla), possibly from Proto-Indo-Aryan *wālás, or possibly from वृ (vṛ).

• Tone class: H(L)
• IPA^(key): /báːl/

بال (bāl) m

1. hair

• Baart, Joan L. G. (1997), “bāl”, in The sounds and tones of Kalam Kohistani: with wordlist and texts (Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan; 1)‎^[6], National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University; Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 79

بال (bâl) (definite accusative بالؽ, plural باللار)

1. Arabic spelling of bâl (“wing”)

Inherited from Shina بال (bál), Sanskrit बाल (bāla).

• IPA^(key): /báːl/

باٗل (baál) m

1. child

بال (báal)

1. hair

• https://fli-online.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/kundal_shahi_introduction.pdf

From Middle Persian b’lk’ (bālag, “wing”).

بال (bâl)

1. hand
2. wing

• IPA^(key): /baːl/

• Audio:

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From Arabic بَالَ (bāla).

بال • (bāl) I (non-past يبول (ybūl))

1. to urinate

From Arabic بَال (bāl).

بال • (bāl) m

1. mind, state

• بالى (bāla)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bal (“honey”); cognate with Azerbaijani bal, Bashkir бал (bal), Chuvash пыл (pyl), Kazakh бал (bal), Kyrgyz бал (bal), Turkmen bal, Uyghur بال (bal) and Uzbek bol.

بال • (bal)

1. honey, a viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees

   Synonyms: انگبین (engübin), عسل (asel)

• Turkish: bal
• → Armenian: պալ (pal)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bal1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 446
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “بال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[7], Vienna: F. Beck, page 104b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[8] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 245
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Mel”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1026
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[10], Vienna, column 679
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[11], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 333

Borrowed from Arabic بَال (bāl, “attention, heed”).

بال • (bâl)

1. condition, status, a particular state of being in a specific moment
2. attention, care, heed, regard, concern for someone or something

   Synonym: دقت (dikkat)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bal5”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 447
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “bâl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[12] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 85
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[13] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 245
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[14], Vienna, columns 679-680
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[15], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 333

Borrowed from Persian بال (bâl, “wing”).

بال • (bâl)

1. (poetic) wing, the appendage of an animal's body that enables it to fly

   Synonym: قنات (kanat)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bal4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 447
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “bâl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[16] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 85
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[17] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 245
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[18], Vienna, column 680
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[19], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 333

From Middle Persian b’lk’ (bālag, “wing”).

Readings
Classical reading?	bāl
Dari reading?	bāl
Iranian reading?	bâl
Tajik reading?	bol

بال • (bāl / bâl) (plural بال‌ها (bāl-hā / bâl-hâ), Tajik spelling бол)

1. wing

• → Khalaj: bâl

Inherited from Sanskrit बाल (bāla).

• IPA^(key): /báːl/

بال (baál) m

1. boy, child

From Arabic بَال (bāl).

• IPA^(key): /baːl/, [bæːl]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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بال • (bāl) m

1. mind

   طوّل بالك. ― ṭawwel bālak ― Be patient. (literally, “Lengthen your mind.”)

   Audio (Ramallah):

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   دير بالك. ― dīr bālak ― Be careful. (literally, “Direct your mind.”)

   Audio (Ramallah):

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   دير بالك على إمّك. ― dīr bālak ʕala ʔimmak ― Take care of your mother.

• دار باله (dār bālo, “to be careful”)
• طوّل باله (ṭawwal bālo, “to be patient”)
• طويل البال (ṭawīl il-bāl, “patient”, adj.)
• جاي عباله (jāy ʕa-bālo, “to feel like doing”)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑːl/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮 (vāla), from Sanskrit वाल (vāla).

بال • (bāl) m (Hindi spelling बाल)

1. hair

• → Lisan ud-Dawat Gujarati: بال (bāl)

Borrowed from Sanskrit बाल (bāla).

بال • (bāl) m (Hindi spelling बाल)

1. (chiefly in compounds) child

   Synonym: بچہ (baccā)

2. young boy

• بالی (bālī, “young girl”)
• بال بچے (bāl-bacce, “children”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian بال (bāl), from Middle Persian b’lk’ (bālag, “wing”).

بال • (bāl) m (Hindi spelling बाल)

1. feather
2. wing