بال

• IPA^(key): /baː.la/
  • (Central Asia) IPA^(key): /boːl/^[1]

It is explained^[2] as reanalysis of بَاءَ لِي (bāʔa lī, “it has come upon me”); predating Arabic literature by a millennium at least since there is^[3] Biblical Aramaic בָּל (bāl, “mind, heed”).

بَال • (bāl) m

1. mind, state
2. attention, mindfulness, heed

• مَا بَال (mā bāl)

• بَالَى (bālā)

Denominal verb of بَوْل (bawl, “urine”), itself related by metathesis, univerbation, or another process happening before the record of Arabic, to وَبْل (wabl, “a heavy, large-dropped rain”).^[4]

بَالَ • (bāla) I (non-past يَبُولُ (yabūlu), verbal noun بَوْل (bawl))

1. to urinate

• Maltese: biel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

بَالِ • (bāli) (form III) /baː.li/

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of بَالَى (bālā)

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “بال”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 174
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “بال”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 180
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “بال”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بال”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 124

Inherited from Karakhanid بال (bal), from Proto-Turkic *bạl (“honey”). Cognate with Azerbaijani bal, Bashkir бал (bal), Chuvash пыл (pyl), Kazakh бал (bal), Kyrgyz бал (bal), Ottoman Turkish بال (bal), and Turkmen bal.

بال (bal)

1. honey

   Synonym: عسل (asal)

2. mead

• Uyghur: بال (bal)
• Uzbek:

  Latin script: bol

  Cyrillic script: бол

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “بال”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental‎ (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 153

Borrowed from Urdu بال (bāl), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮 (vāla), from Sanskrit वाल (vāla).

• (Standard Gujarati) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑl/

بال • (bāl) m (Standard Gujarati બાલ) (Lisan ud-Dawat)

1. hair

   Synonym: વાળ (vāḷ) (Standard Gujarati)

From Arabic بَال (bāl).

• IPA^(key): /baː.l/

بال • (bāl) m

1. mind

بال (bâl) (definite accusative بالؽ, plural باللار)

1. Arabic spelling of bâl (“wing”)

Inherited from Shina بال (bál), Sanskrit बाल (bāla).

IPA^(key): /báːl/

باٗل (baál) m

1. child

بال (báal)

1. hair

• https://fli-online.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/kundal_shahi_introduction.pdf

From Mazanderani b’lk’ (bālag, “wing”).

بال (bâl)

1. hand
2. wing

• IPA^(key): /baːl/

• Audio:

  (file)

From Arabic بَالَ (bāla).

بال • (bāl) I (non-past يبول (ybūl))

1. to urinate

From Arabic بَال (bāl).

بال • (bāl) m

1. mind, state

• بالى (bāla)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bạl (“honey”); cognate with Azerbaijani bal, Bashkir бал (bal), Chuvash пыл (pyl), Kazakh бал (bal), Kyrgyz бал (bal), Turkmen bal, Uyghur بال (bal) and Uzbek bol.

بال • (bal)

1. honey, a viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees

   Synonyms: انگبین (engübin), عسل (asel)

• Turkish: bal
• → Armenian: պալ (pal)

Borrowed from Arabic بَال (bāl, “attention, heed”).

بال • (bâl)

1. condition, status, a particular state of being in a specific moment
2. attention, care, heed, regard, concern for someone or something

   Synonym: دقت (dikkat)

Borrowed from Persian بال (bâl, “wing”).

بال • (bâl)

1. (poetic) wing, the appendage of an animal's body that enables it to fly

   Synonym: قنات (kanat)

From Middle Persian b’lk’ (bālag, “wing”).

بال • (bâl)

1. wing

• → Khalaj: bâl

Inherited from Sanskrit बाल (bāla).

• IPA^(key): /báːl/

بال (baál) m

1. boy, child

From Arabic بَال (bāl).

• IPA^(key): /baːl/,

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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بال • (bāl) m

1. mind

   طوّل بالك.

   ṭawwel bālak

   Be patient.

   (literally, “Lengthen your mind.”)

   Audio (Ramallah):

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   دير بالك.

   dīr bālak

   Be careful.

   (literally, “Direct your mind.”)

   Audio (Ramallah):

   (file)

   دير بالك على إمّك.

   dīr bālak ʕala ʕimmak

   Take care of your mother.

• دار باله (dār bālo, “to be careful”)
• طوّل باله (ṭawwal bālo, “to be patient”)
• طويل البال (ṭawīl il-bāl, “patient”, adj.)
• جاي عباله (jāy ʕa-bālo, “to feel like doing”)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑːl/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮 (vāla), from Sanskrit वाल (vāla).

بال • (bāl) m (Hindi spelling बाल)

1. hair

• → Lisan ud-Dawat Gujarati: بال (bāl)

Borrowed from Sanskrit बाल (bāla).

بال • (bāl) m (Hindi spelling बाल)

1. (chiefly in compounds) child

   Synonym: بچہ (baccā)

2. young boy

• بالی (bālī, “young girl”)
• بال بچے (bāl-bacce, “children”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian بال (bāl), from Middle Persian b’lk’ (bālag, “wing”).

بال • (bāl) m (Hindi spelling बाल)

1. feather
2. wing