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^[2] (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^[3] (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^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 124

Inherited from Karakhanid بال (bal), from Proto-Turkic *bal (“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 [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[5] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 153

Borrowed from Urdu بال (bāl).

• (Lisan ud-Dawat) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑl/

بال • (bāl) m

1. Lisan ud-Dawat form of વાળ (vāḷ)

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

بال (bâl)

1. hand
2. wing

• IPA^(key): /baːl/

• Audio:

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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 *bal (“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)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bal1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 446
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 104b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 245
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mel”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[8], Vienna, column 1026
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 679
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 333

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)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bal5”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 447
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “bâl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[11] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 85
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[12] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 245
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[13], Vienna, columns 679-680
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[14], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 333

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)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bal4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 447
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “bâl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[15] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 85
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[16] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 245
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[17], Vienna, column 680
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[18], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 333

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

Readings
Classical reading?	bāl
Dari reading?	bāl
Iranian reading?	bâl
Tajik reading?	bol

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/, [bæːl]

• 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):

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   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