balas

From Old English bales, balais, from Old French balais, from Arabic بَلَخْش (balaḵš), from Persian بلخش (balaxš), a form of بدخش (badaxš, “balas”), related to بدخشان (badaxšân, “Badakhshan”), the region where they are found.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaləs/

balas (plural balases)

1. (archaic, now chiefly attributive) A type of rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a form of ruby.

• balace, balass, ballace

• balas-ruby, balas ruby

• Labas, basal, balsa, Baals, laabs, blaas, albas, baals, Baʿals, sabal, Ba'als, LABAs

• bas — dialectal

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *badas (“grit, coarse sand, gravel”).

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /baˈlas/ [bɐˈl̪as̪]
• (l-eliding dialects) IPA^(key): /ˈba(ː)s/ [ˈba(ː)s̪]
• Hyphenation: ba‧las

balás (Badlit spelling ᜊᜎᜐ᜔)

1. sand

   Synonym: bunbon

balas

1. plural of bala

Borrowed from English balance.

• IPA^(key): /bá.làs/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bə́.làs]

balàs m

1. (financial) balance
2. payment due for work done

balas

1. sand

balás

1. sand

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbalas/ [ˈba.las]
• Rhymes: -alas
• Syllabification: ba‧las

Inherited from Malay balas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baləs (“to answer, retaliate; reciprocate good or evil”).

balas (plural balas-balas)

1. answer

   Synonym: jawaban

2. response

   Synonyms: tanggapan, respon

3. (uncommon) punishment

   Synonyms: ganjaran, hukuman

Borrowed from Dutch ballast, from Middle Dutch ballast.

balas (plural balas-balas)

1. ballast,
   1. (nautical) heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability

      Synonyms: tolak bahara, pengimbang kapal, pemberat

   2. (rail transport) coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete
2. (figurative) baggage, something that hampers functioning

• “balas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *badas (“grit, coarse sand, gravel”).

• IPA^(key): /bəˈlas/ [bəˈläs]
• Hyphenation: ba‧las

balas

1. sand

bālās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of bālō

bãlas m (feminine balà) stress pattern 4

1. alternative form of báltas (“white”)

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *baləs (“to answer, retaliate; reciprocate good or evil”). Cognate with Malagasy valy and Javanese wales.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalas/ [ˈba.las]

• Audio (Malaysia):

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• Rhymes: -alas, -as
• Hyphenation: ba‧las

balas (Jawi spelling بالس)

1. to reply; to respond; to answer

   Synonyms: jawab, sahut

   Antonyms: pulau, tanya, soal

   Anton membalas pertanyaan itu dengan perasaan penuh yakin.

   Anton answered the question with full confindence.

• > Indonesian: balas (inherited)

• “balas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bales₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

balas

1. bush

balas

1. plural of bala

Borrowed from Old Spanish bala (plural balas).^[1][2] First attested in 1461–1467.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /balʲas/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /balʲas/
• Homophone: balaz

balas m animacy unattested

1. (architecture) baluster
   • 1461–1467, Sermones. Rękopiśmienne ekscerpty pochodzące z rkpsu Archiwum i Biblioteki Krakowskiej Kapituły Katedralnej o sygn. 230 (dawna sygn. 1421/108 Mns) z roku 1461-1467, page 415v:

     Ustawal ballaszami malovanimy, toczonimy sculpsit variis celaturis et torno (parietes templi... sculpsit variis caelaturis et torno III Reg 6, 29, 1471 MPKJ V 43: drangy torno)

     [Ustawiał balasami malowanymi, toczonymi sculpsit variis celaturis et torno (parietes templi... sculpsit variis caelaturis et torno III Reg 6, 29, 1471 MPKJ V 43: drągi torno)]

• Polish: balas (“baluster”)
• Silesian: balas

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “balas”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alas
• Syllabification: ba‧las

Inherited from Old Polish balas.

balas m inan (diminutive balasek or balasik)

1. (architecture) baluster

   Synonym: tralka

2. (Middle Polish, in the plural) turned furniture legs
3. (Podegrodzie) church partition (partition in a church, separating the nave from the sanctuary)

balas m inan (diminutive balasek)

1. (colloquial) chocolate hot dog (long piece of fecal matter)

Borrowed from German Ballas.

balas m inan (diminutive balasek)

1. (Middle Polish, gemology) type of red gemstone

• balas in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• balas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “balas”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Dorota Adamiec (27.09.2009) “BALAS”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “balas”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “balas”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “balas”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 87
• M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Balas on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl
• balas in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Karol Mátyás (1891) “balas”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 319

balas f

1. plural of bala

balas

1. second-person singular present indicative of balar
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of balir

Inherited from Old Polish balas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.las/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alas
• Syllabification: ba‧las

balas m inan

1. sawhorse for drying hay

• Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “balas”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 38

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalas/ [ˈba.las]
• Rhymes: -alas
• Syllabification: ba‧las

balas

1. plural of bala

balas

1. second-person singular present indicative of balar

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *badas (“grit, coarse sand, gravel”). Compare Kapampangan balas, Hanunoo baras, Aklanon baeas, and Cebuano balas.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈlas/ [bɐˈlas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: ba‧las

balás (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜐ᜔)

1. coarse granulated sugar; crystallized syrup
2. coarse grains of starch
3. northwind

• sabalas

• balaklaot

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbalas/ [ˈbaː.lɐs]
• Rhymes: -alas
• Syllabification: ba‧las

balas (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜐ᜔)

1. poles used as prop to roofs to prevent a house from falling

   Synonyms: suhay, puntal, tukod

• “balas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• labas, salba, balsa, sabal, salab

From Malay balas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.l̪as̪/

balas

1. (intransitive) to avenge, to pay back

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics