بالة

From Spanish pala.

بالة (bāla) f (plural بالات (bālāt))

1. winnowing shovel

• Stuhlmann, Franz (1912) Ein kulturgeschichtlicher Ausflug in den Aures (Atlas von Süd-Algerien): nebst Betrachtungen über die Berber-Völker (Abhandlungen des Hamburgischen Kolonialinstituts; X)‎ (in German), Hamburg: L. Friederichsen & Co., page 173b

• بَآلَة (baʔāla), بَأْلَة (baʔla)

Via an Aramaic dialect form equivalent Classical Syriac ܒܠܬܐ (balləṯā, “perfume flask, ampulla”) from Middle Persian (pygʾl /⁠*paygāl⁠/, “goblet, chalice, cup”), which is in Persian پیاله (piyâla) and thence has been reborrowed in Arabic dialects as بيالة (biyāla, “cup”).

• IPA^(key): /baː.la/

بَالَة • (bāla) f (plural بَالَات (bālāt) or بَال (bāl))

1. (obsolete, Banū al-Ḥāriṯ and few other dialects) a large flask, flagon, bottle

   Synonyms: فِلَسْقِيَّة (filasqiyya), قِنِّينَة (qinnīna), زُجَاجَة (zujāja), قَارُورَة (qārūra)

   • a. 786, Kitāb al-ʿAyn:

     والبألة: القارورة بلغة بلحارث، وهي بالنّبطية بالتّاء.

     Al-baʾla is the flask in the dialect of the Balḥāriṯ, and in Nabataean with t.

   • 2015 May 25, “ازيثروميسين اقراص مضاد حيوي فعال Azithromycin tablets”, in Al-ʾAjzaḵāna‎:

     اشكال الدواء
     ١- مسحوق للحل ( للزرق ) معبأ في قارورة ( بالة ) : 500 مغ.

     Dosage
     Grinding or dissolving, filling into a flask: 500 mg

• Elmaz, Orhan (2014) “Investigating South Arabian words in al-Khalīl's Kitāb al-ʿayn”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies‎, volume 44, Supplement: Language of Southern Arabia: Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 27 July 2013, Oxford: Archaeopress, page 34a
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 81
• “pyly²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “blh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

From Spanish pala.

• IPA^(key): /baː.la/

بالة • (bāla) f (plural بالات (bālāt))

1. shovel