balle

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See also: Balle, ballé, ballē, ballë, and Bälle

Afrikaans

Noun

balle

  1. plural of bal

Dutch

Verb

balle

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of ballen

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bal/
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  • Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French balle, from northern Italian balla. Doublet of balle (Etymology 2).

Noun

balle f (plural balles)

  1. (small) ball
    balle de golf
    golf ball
    balle de tennis
    tennis ball
  2. bullet
  3. (colloquial) franc (French franc), euro
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Portuguese: bala

See also

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French balle (“large bundle, package”), from Old French bale (“rolled-up bundle, packet of goods”) and Medieval Latin bala, of Germanic origin. Cognate with English ball. Doublet of Etymology 1.

Noun

balle f (plural balles)

  1. bundle of goods; packet tied and held together with string

Etymology 3

From Gaulish *balu.

Alternative forms

Noun

balle f (uncountable)

  1. chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)

References

  • Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

Verb

balle

  1. inflection of ballen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative
    3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbal.le/
  • Rhymes: -alle
  • Hyphenation: bàl‧le

Noun

balle f

  1. plural of balla

Anagrams

Latvian

Balle

Etymology

From French bal (“a dance”).

Noun

balle f (5th declension)

  1. ball (old-fashioned spacious, luxurious dancing party)
    balles tērps ― ball dress, clothes
    zaļumu balle ― open-air ball, dancing party
    masku balle ― masquerade (lit. mask ball)
  2. (colloquial) a small party, with food and drinks
    vakar pēc sapulces ceplī bijusi īsta balle ― yesterday after the meeting in the kiln there was a real ball

Declension

Declension of balle (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) balle balles
accusative (akuzatīvs) balli balles
genitive (ģenitīvs) balles baļļu
dative (datīvs) ballei ballēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) balli ballēm
locative (lokatīvs) ballē ballēs
vocative (vokatīvs) balle balles

Derived terms

Noun

balle f (5th declension)

  1. point (on a scale), grade, level
    atzīmes 10-ballu skalā ― marks on a 10-point scale

Declension

Declension of balle (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) balle balles
accusative (akuzatīvs) balli balles
genitive (ģenitīvs) balles ballu
dative (datīvs) ballei ballēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) balli ballēm
locative (lokatīvs) ballē ballēs
vocative (vokatīvs) balle balles

Limburgish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From bal +‎ -e.

Verb

balle

  1. (intransitive) to play with a ball
Conjugation
Montfortian conjugation of balle (first conjugation)
non-finite forms infinitive gerund present participle past participle adjective adverb
(tö) balle 't balle n ballendj höbbe gebal gebaldje, gebaldjer, gebaldjes gebaldj, gebaldjelik
number & tense verb-second order verb-first order
present past subjunctive present past subjunctive
first person singular bal baldje balle bal baldje-n balle-n
second person singular bals baldjes balle bals baldjes baller
third person singular baltj baldje balle baltj'r baldje baller
first person plural balle baldje balle baltj baldje balle
second person plural baltj baldje balle baltj baldje balletj
third person plural balle baldje balle balle baldje baller
other forms noun imperative singular impolite imperative singular polite imperative dual imperative plural inclusive
't gebal n bal! baltj! baltj, balletj! baltj! ballem

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

balle

  1. inflection of bal:
    1. (some dialects, mainly West Limburgish) nominative plural
    2. (archaic) accusative singular

Middle English

Noun

balle

  1. Alternative form of bal

Middle French

Etymology 1

From northern Italian balla (“ball”).

Noun

balle f (plural balles)

  1. ball (spherical object used in games)
    1. small metal ball used as artillery
Coordinate terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Old French balle, from Frankish *balla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”).

Noun

balle f (plural balles)

  1. bundle
Descendants

Moore

Etymology

from French balle

Noun

balle

  1. ball (object)

Norman

Etymology

Of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Noun

balle f (plural balles)

  1. (Jersey) ball
  2. (Jersey) bullet

Derived terms

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpalle/

Verb

balle

  1. inflection of ballat:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

balle

  1. definite natural masculine singular of ball

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish balder, baller, from Old Norse bǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Doublet of boll and bulle. Compare Old English bealluc, English bollock, Danish balde (“buttock”). First attested in 1520.

Noun

balle c (colloquial)

  1. (colloquial, vulgar) a schlong, cock ((larger) penis)
    • 1993, Helga Kress, “Vad en kvinna kväder. Kultur och kön på Island i fornnordisk medeltid [What a woman feels. Culture and gender in Iceland in the Old Norse Middle Ages]”, in Elisabeth Møller Jensen, editor, Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria I [Nordic history of women's literature I]‎, page 59:
      Trälen skär av "med ett raskt snitt den lem, som efter naturens ordning det slags skapelser har till avlande... och som, efter vad de gamla skalderna säger, heter ballen på hästar". Bondsonen kommer skrattande in i rummet till sin mor, syster och trälkvinnan och hotar dem med ballen. Han kväder en smädevers. där han ger ballen namnet Völse (etymologiskt detsamma som fallos).
      The thrall cuts off "with a quick cut the limb, which, according to the order of nature, this kind of creation has for breeding... and which, according to what the old poets say, is on horses called the ". The farm-son comes laughing into the room of his mother, sister and thrall woman and threatens them with the . He chants a slanderous verse, where he gives the the name Völse (etymologically the same as phallus).
  2. (colloquial, usually in the plural) a testicle
  3. (Southern) a buttock
Declension
Declension of balle 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative balle ballen ballar ballarna
Genitive balles ballens ballars ballarnas
Derived terms

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Etymology 3

Originally formed in its definitive form ballen as a humorous contraction of balkongen (“the balcony”), partly influenced by the sense ballen (“the penis; the scrotum”).

Noun

balle c (colloquial)

  1. (humorous) a balcony
    • 2011 September 21, Kenza Zouiten, “Sitter på ballen med en kall cola”, in Kenzas.se‎ (blog):
      Jag har hittat internet ute på ballen! Inte så stark signalstyrka dock så det går lite segt…
      I've found internet out on the balcony! The signal strength isn't that strong though, so it's a bit slow...
    • 2013 July 7, “Kulan och jag på ballen”, in Hon kallas Tess‎ (blog):
      Solen skiner, jag och kulan [gravidmage] sitter på ballen och försöker få lite färg, orkar inte sitta i denna hetta egentligen känner mig som en svullen flodhäst!
      The sun is shining, me and the bump are sitting on the balcony trying to get some color, don't really have the energy to sit in this heat, feeling like a swollen hippo!
    • 2021 April 21, Patrik Isaksson, “patrikisakssonofficial”, in Instagram‎ (social media):
      Sitter på ballen nu å njuter. Hoppas ni har en härlig dag.
      Sitting on the balcony now enjoying. Hope you have a wonderful day.

References

  1. ^ balle in Svensk ordbok (SO)
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