bla

Clipping of English Blackfoot.

bla

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Blackfoot.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Blackfoot terms

bla

1. Alternative form of blah (“imitative of idle, meaningless talk”).
   • 2016, Richard Bean, Up On Roof:

     […] Chair of the Women's Committee, bla bla bla, said she won't vote to let Turkey into the EU until Turkish men improve as lovers, […]

• Lab, BAL, Alb., alb, LAB, Lab., lab, abl.

bla

1. alternative form of blanga

• blan (Balearic)

Inherited from Latin blandus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbla]

bla (feminine blana, masculine plural blans, feminine plural blanes)

1. soft

   Synonym: tou

2. (figurative) mild, docile

   Synonym: dòcil

3. smooth

   Synonym: suau

4. (figurative) smooth, gentle

   Synonyms: suau, dolç, benigne

• blandícia
• Blanes

• “bla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

bla (Old Fribourgeois, Old Lyonnais, Old Dauphinois) (Valdôtain, Dauphinois)

1. alternative form of blât (“wheat”)

• bllât in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*blād”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 15/1: Germanismes: A–Bryman, page 126

• mbla, mebla

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic بلا (blā), from Arabic بِلَا (bilā).

• IPA^(key): /bla/

bla

1. without

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

From Arabic بِلَا (bi-lā, literally “with not”). By surface analysis, b’ +‎ le.

• IPA^(key): /blaː/
• Rhymes: -aː
• Usually unstressed and then automatically shortened to /bla/.

bla

1. without (an ingredient, means, concomitant, quality)

   bla ħalib ― without milk

   • 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Ir-Riħ u l-Bnazzi”, in Mill-Gallerija ta’ Żgħożiti:

     Ħarbat, mewwet dawk id-dwieli,
     wild il-għaraq tal-ħaddiem,
     żomm il-fqir ġol-gorboġ waħdu,
     u bla ħobż, bla dawl, bla sliem!

     Destroy, kill those vines,
     the offspring of the worker’s sweat,
     keep the poor man in the hovel alone,
     without bread, without light, without peace!

• Bla negates the preposition b’. It is followed by a noun without any article or determiner. In all other cases, especially for the negation of ma’, the preposition mingħajr is used.

bla

1. alternative form of blo

From Old Norse blár.

bla

1. blue

• Danish: blå

bla m (plural blas)

1. blah (idle talk)

• blablablá, bla bla bla, bla-bla-bla
• blablá, bla bla, bla-bla

• “bla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

bla

1. misspelling of bl.a.

• IPA^(key): /blaː/

bla

1. soft mutation of pla

From Middle English blawen (“to blow; to bluster, scold”), from Old English blāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāan.

• IPA^(key): /blaː/
• Homophone: blah

bla (present participle blayeen)

1. to blow
2. to shout

• blowe

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 26