balda

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (aḍḍábba, “latch”). Displaced Latin pessulus, which would have yielded *péssol.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbal.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbal.da]

balda f (plural baldes)

1. bolt (metal fastener)
2. doorknocker

   Synonym: picaporta

• baldada
• baldell
• baldó

• baldufa

• “balda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “balda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

balda

1. inflection of baldar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Spanish baldar.

• Hyphenation: bal‧da
• IPA^(key): /balˈda/ [bɐl̪ˈd̪a]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbalda/ [ˈbal̪.d̪ɐ]

baldá

1. to cripple; to maim; to disable
2. to disturb

• baldado

Inherited from Spanish baldar (“to cripple”).

• IPA^(key): /balˈda/, [bal̪ˈd̪a]
• Hyphenation: bal‧da

baldá

1. to sprain

Ultimately from Arabic بَاطِل (bāṭil, “invalid; null; futile”). Compare Portuguese baldar and Spanish baldar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalda/ [ˈbɑl̪.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -alda
• Hyphenation: bal‧da

balda f (plural baldas)

1. bagatelle, trifle
2. flaw, defect

• baldar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “balda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “balda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “balda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “balda”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “balda” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Esperanto baldaŭ, from German bald.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalda/

balda

1. soon to happen, impending, imminent

   La balda futuro. ― The imminent future.

• balde (“soon, shortly”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal.da/
• Rhymes: -alda
• Hyphenation: bàl‧da

balda

1. feminine singular of baldo

balda

1. physically disabled or defective

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -aldɐ, (Brazil) -awdɐ
• Hyphenation: bal‧da

balda

1. inflection of baldar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalda/ [ˈbal̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -alda
• Syllabification: bal‧da

Of unknown origin.

balda f (plural baldas)

1. shelf (flat structure fixed to a wall)

   Synonyms: anaquel, estante, repisa

From Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (báṭ[i]la), itself from Arabic بَاطِلَة (bāṭila, “vain, useless”).

balda f (plural baldas)

1. (obsolete) a cheap and worthless thing; a trinket, trifle

balda

1. inflection of baldar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “balda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish baldar.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /balˈda/ [bɐlˈd̪a], /ˈbalda/ [ˈbal.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -a, -alda
• Syllabification: bal‧da

baldá or balda (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎ᜔ᜇ)

1. crippleness; lameness

   Synonyms: paglumpo, pagkalumpo

2. omission

   Synonyms: palya, pagpalya

3. absence; non-attendance

   Synonyms: liban, pagliban

• baldado

balda

1. locative singular of bal