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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بالیه (balya), from Italian balla.
Noun
balya (definite accusative balyayı, plural balyalar)
- bale
1939 February 14, “500.000 balya pamuk [500,000 bales of cotton]”, in Aydin:Hükûmet, pamuk mahsulümüzün 500.000 balyaya çıkartılması hakkında, Millî Şef İsmet İnönünün vermiş olduğu direktifin tahakkuku içiu hazırlanmış olan programın tatbikine devam etmektedir.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “balya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 336
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN