balo

balo

1. ruining, spoiling, destruction

• bal (“to ruin, spoil”, verb)

• Blackings, Mairi John (2009), Acholi English – English Acholi Dictionary‎^[1], Munich: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 13

From French ballon.

balo

1. ball

• bool

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN)

• bawo

• Hyphenation: ba‧lo

balo

1. the houndfish (Tylosurus crocodilus)

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalo/ [ˈba.l̪o]
• Hyphenation: ba‧lo

bálo (Basahan spelling ᜊᜎᜓ)

1. widow

   Synonym: biyuda

2. widower

   Synonym: biyudo

• IPA^(key): /baˈloʔ/ [baˈl̪oʔ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧lo

balô (plural baralo, Basahan spelling ᜊᜎᜓ)

1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) to try; to attempt

   Synonym: probar

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalo/

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: ba‧lo

balo (accusative singular balon, plural baloj, accusative plural balojn)

1. ball (formal dance)

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

balo

1. widow

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

bálo

1. widow

balò

1. an alarm or warning

balò

1. to warn of danger

balô

1. a slip knot or noose

baló

1. (obsolete) to know

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalo/ [ˈbɐ.lo]
• Hyphenation: bá‧lo

bálo

1. widow; widower

• ballo

From Toraja-Sa'dan [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalo/
• Hyphenation: ba‧lo

balo (plural balo-balo)

1. alcoholic beverage made of aren palm

• “balo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Italian ballo.

balo m

1. dance, ball

• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 36

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

balo

1. widow; widower

• bēlō

From an onomatopoeic Proto-Indo-European *bē-. Compare Ancient Greek βῆ (bê) and Latin bebō (“I yell, scream”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbaː.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbaː.lo]

bālō (present infinitive bālāre, perfect active bālāvī, supine bālātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. (intransitive) to bleat, baa
2. (intransitive) to talk foolishly

• ⇒ Late Latin: bēlō
  • > French: bêler (inherited)
  • > Italian: belare (inherited)
• > Portuguese: balar (inherited)
• > Spanish: balar (inherited)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin:
  • *exbēlō
    • Romanian: zbera

• “balo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “balo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “balo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

balo

1. widow

From Proto-West Germanic *balu, see also Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (balweins, “torture”), Old English bealu, Old Norse bǫl.

balo n

1. destruction

• Old High German: balolīhho

• Middle High German: bale
  • ⇒ Middle High German: balheit

balo n

1. alternative form of balu

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.lo]

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balo

1. widow

• Perangin Angin, Dalan Mehuli (2023), Kamus Pagu-Indonesia-Inggris, Jakarta: Penerbit BRIN

balo

1. first-person singular present indicative of balar
2. first-person singular present indicative of balir

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀩𑀸𑀮 (bāla),^[1][2] from Sanskrit बाल (bāla).^[1][2]

balo m (nominative plural bale)

1. pig^[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbalo]

balo f

1. vocative singular of bală

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

balo

1. widow; widower

balô

1. but

balo

1. first-person singular present indicative of balar

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu. Compare Aklanon baeo and Malay balu.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbalo/ [ˈbaː.lo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: ba‧lo

balo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ)

1. widow; widower

   Synonyms: (female) biyuda, (male) biyudo

• bao
• bauo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• bawo — obsolete

• bulandal

balo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ)

1. widowed (of a person)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbalo/ [ˈbaː.lo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: ba‧lo

balo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ) (obsolete)

1. act of fooling oneself into thinking one over the other
2. act of losing one's strength

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaloʔ/ [ˈbaː.loʔ]
• Rhymes: -aloʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧lo

balò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ) (obsolete)

1. rope made from a strange liana

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaloʔ/ [ˈbaː.loʔ]
• Rhymes: -aloʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧lo

balò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ) (obsolete)

1. nothing!

   Synonym: wala

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈlo/ [bɐˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ba‧lo

baló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ) (obsolete)

1. act of scaring children with duendes

• Rosalio Serrano (1854), Diccionario de terminos comunes tagalo-castellano‎^[2] (in Spanish), page 16
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[3] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.

• bola, labo

Likely related to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baluj; see Uneapa balu (“dove”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.lo/

balo

1. either the wood pigeon or the green pigeon

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بالو (balo), from Italian ballo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ɫo/
• Hyphenation: ba‧lo

balo (definite accusative baloyu, plural balolar)

1. ball, a formal dance

   mezuniyet balosu ― graduation ball

• “balo”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “balo”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “balo”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Borrowed from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ).

balo (plural balolar)

1. affliction