balsa

Borrowed from Spanish balsa, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably Basque or Iberian . Not related to balsam.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːl.sə/, /ˈbæl.sə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlsə/

balsa (countable and uncountable, plural balsas)

1. A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight.
2. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
3. A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

• → Irish: balsa

• balsa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• balsa tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Labas, basal, balas, Baals, laabs, blaas, albas, baals, Baʿals, sabal, Ba'als, LABAs

• IPA^(key): /balˈsa/
• Hyphenation: bal‧sa

balsá f 

1. reputation

balsa

1. wooden boat

From Spanish balsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlsɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlsɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): bal‧sa

balsa

1. balsa (wood)

• “balsa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• slaba

• Audio:

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balsa m (plural balsas)

1. balsa (tree, wood)

• “balsa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Attested since circa 1300. From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• IPA^(key):

balsa f (plural balsas)

1. raft; also raft-like group of trunks which are left to flow downriver
2. dam
3. balsa (tree)
4. balsa (wood)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “balsa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “balsa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “balsa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “balsa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “balsa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from English balsa, from Spanish balsa.

balsa m (genitive singular balsa)

1. balsa (tree, wood)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “balsa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Samic *pëlsë (whence also Inari Sami polssâ), of unknown further origin. Probably ultimately from a substrate.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpalːsa/

balsa

1. palsa, mound, tussock

• → Finnish: palsa
  • → English: palsa
• Swedish: pals
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pals

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

balsa

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Borrowed from Spanish balsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal.sa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alsa
• Syllabification: bal‧sa

balsa f (related adjective balsowy)

1. balsa (Ochroma pyramidale)
2. balsa (wood of this tree)

• balsa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• balsa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Spanish balsa.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -alsɐ, (Brazil) -awsɐ
• Hyphenation: bal‧sa

balsa f (plural balsas)

1. raft
2. ferry

   Synonym: ferryboat

Borrowed from French balsa.

balsa m (uncountable)

1. balsa

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably Basque or Iberian .

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalsa/
• Rhymes: -alsa
• Syllabification: bal‧sa

balsa f (plural balsas)

1. puddle, pool, pond

   Synonym: charco

2. raft
3. ferry
4. balsa (tree)

• → English: balsa
  • → Irish: balsa
• → Portuguese: balsa
• → Tagalog: balsa

• “balsa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed from Spanish balsa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /balˈsa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: bal‧sa

balsá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎ᜔ᜐ)

1. raft

• labas, salba, sabal, salab, balas

balsa

1. raft