balle

balle

1. plural of bal

balle

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of ballen

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• IPA^(key): /bal/

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• Rhymes: -al

Inherited from Middle French balle, from northern Italian balla. Doublet of balle (Etymology 2).

balle f (plural balles)

1. (small) ball

   balle de golf

   golf ball

   balle de tennis

   tennis ball

2. bullet
3. (colloquial) franc (French franc), euro

• → Portuguese: bala
• → Russian: балл (ball)
  • → Armenian: բալ (bal)
  • → Azerbaijani: bal
  • → Georgian: ბალი (bali)

• ballon (larger ball)
• boule, boulette
• pare-balles

Inherited from Middle French balle (“large bundle, package”), from Old French bale (“rolled-up bundle, packet of goods”) and Medieval Latin bala, of Germanic origin. Cognate with English ball. Doublet of Etymology 1.

balle f (plural balles)

1. bundle of goods; packet tied and held together with string

From Gaulish *balu.

• bale

balle f (uncountable)

1. chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• “balle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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• Rhymes: -alə

balle

1. inflection of ballen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal.le/
• Rhymes: -alle
• Hyphenation: bàl‧le

balle f

1. plural of balla

• bella

From French bal (“a dance”).

balle f (5th declension)

1. ball (old-fashioned spacious, luxurious dancing party)

   balles tērps ― ball dress, clothes

   zaļumu balle ― open-air ball, dancing party

   masku balle ― masquerade (lit. mask ball)

2. (colloquial) a small party, with food and drinks

   vakar pēc sapulces ceplī bijusi īsta balle ― yesterday after the meeting in the kiln there was a real ball

• zaļumballe, zaļumu balle

balle f (5th declension)

1. point (on a scale), grade, level

   atzīmes 10-ballu skalā ― marks on a 10-point scale

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.lə/
• Hyphenation: bal‧le
• Rhymes: -ɑlə

From bal +‎ -e.

balle

1. (intransitive) to play with a ball

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

balle

1. inflection of bal:
   1. (some dialects, mainly West Limburgish) nominative plural
   2. (archaic) accusative singular

balle

1. alternative form of bal

From northern Italian balla (“ball”).

balle f (plural balles)

1. ball (spherical object used in games)
   1. small metal ball used as artillery

• boulet

• French: balle
  • → Portuguese: bala
    • → Shona: bala

From Old French balle, from Frankish *balla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”).

balle f (plural balles)

1. bundle

• French: balle

from French balle

balle

1. ball (object)

Of Germanic origin.

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balle f (plural balles)

1. (Jersey) ball
2. (Jersey) bullet

• balle-à-leunettes (“jack o'lantern”)
• balle dé l'yi (“eyeball”)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpalle/

balle

1. inflection of ballat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaˌlɛ/

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

balle

1. definite natural masculine singular of ball

From Old Swedish balder, baller, from Old Norse bǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Doublet of boll and bulle. Compare Old English bealluc, English bollock, Danish balde (“buttock”). First attested in 1520.^[1]

balle c (colloquial)

1. (colloquial, vulgar) a schlong, cock ((larger) penis)
   • 1993, Helga Kress, “Vad en kvinna kväder. Kultur och kön på Island i fornnordisk medeltid [What a woman feels. Culture and gender in Iceland in the Old Norse Middle Ages]”, in Elisabeth Møller Jensen, editor, Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria I [Nordic history of women's literature I]‎^[1], page 59:

     Trälen skär av "med ett raskt snitt den lem, som efter naturens ordning det slags skapelser har till avlande... och som, efter vad de gamla skalderna säger, heter ballen på hästar". Bondsonen kommer skrattande in i rummet till sin mor, syster och trälkvinnan och hotar dem med ballen. Han kväder en smädevers. där han ger ballen namnet Völse (etymologiskt detsamma som fallos).

     The thrall cuts off "with a quick cut the limb, which, according to the order of nature, this kind of creation [(horse)] has for breeding... and which, according to what the old poets say, is on horses called the [penis]". The farm-son comes laughing into the room of his mother, sister and thrall woman and threatens them with the [penis]. He chants a slanderous verse, where he gives the [penis] the name Völse (etymologically the same as phallus).

2. (colloquial, usually in the plural) a testicle
3. (Southern) a buttock

• raggarballe med svängdörr
• suga balle (“suck cock”)
• vinballe (“whiskey dick”)

• kuk

Originally formed in its definitive form ballen as a humorous contraction of balkongen (“the balcony”), partly influenced by the sense ballen (“the penis; the scrotum”).

balle c (colloquial)

1. (humorous) a balcony

   Synonym: balkong

   • 2011 September 21, Kenza Zouiten, “Sitter på ballen med en kall cola”, in Kenzas.se‎^[2] (blog):

     Jag har hittat internet ute på ballen! Inte så stark signalstyrka dock så det går lite segt…

     I've found internet out on the balcony! The signal strength isn't that strong though, so it's a bit slow...

   • 2013 July 7, “Kulan och jag på ballen”, in Hon kallas Tess‎^[3] (blog):

     Solen skiner, jag och kulan [gravidmage] sitter på ballen och försöker få lite färg, orkar inte sitta i denna hetta egentligen känner mig som en svullen flodhäst!

     The sun is shining, me and the bump [pregnant belly] are sitting on the balcony trying to get some color, don't really have the energy to sit in this heat, feeling like a swollen hippo!

   • 2021 April 21, Patrik Isaksson, “patrikisakssonofficial”, in Instagram‎^[4] (social media):

     Sitter på ballen nu å njuter. Hoppas ni har en härlig dag.

     Sitting on the balcony now enjoying myself. Hope you have a wonderful day.

• balle in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• balle in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• balle in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Fula Ordboken
• Slangopedia
• balder in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L