Bala

In Wales, from Welsh Bala, from bala (“effluent from a lake”).

Bala

1. A small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH9235). ^[1]
2. A rural community of Muskoka Lakes municipality, Ontario, Canada, named after Bala, Wales.
3. An unincorporated community in Riley County, Kansas, United States, named after Bala in Wales.

• Bala Lake

From Mandarin 巴拉語 / 巴拉语 (Bālāyǔ, “Bala language”).

Bala

1. An extinct Jurchenic language formerly spoken in northeastern China.

• Category:Bala lemmas

• AABL, Alba, Ba'al, Baal, Baʿal, LABA, alba, baal, blaa, laab

Definite form of Balë, from balë (“white spot”). See balë for more.

Bala m (definite Bala)

1. nominative singular definite of Balë
2. a male given name

   Balë m, Bal m

3. a surname originating as a patronymic

   Synonym: Balaj m

• Dražić, Marina, Antić, Ivana, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена [Catalogue of the most common Albanian names and surnames]‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), page 65

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• IPA^(key): [ˈbala]

Bala m anim (female equivalent Balová)

1. a male surname

• “Bala”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Bala

1. romanization of ꦧꦭ

From a regional variant of bela.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: Ba‧la

Bala m pers

1. a male surname

Bala f

1. a female surname

• “Bala”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic бѣла (běla), feminine of бѣлъ (bělŭ).

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Bala f

1. a commune of Mehedinți County, Romania
2. a village in Bala, Mehedinți County, Romania

From bala (“effluent”).

Y Bala f

1. Bala (a small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales)