bla

bla

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Blackfoot.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Blackfoot terms

bla

1. Alternative form of blah (“imitative of idle, meaningless talk”).
   • 2016, Richard Bean, Up On Roof:

     […] Chair of the Women's Committee, bla bla bla, said she won't vote to let Turkey into the EU until Turkish men improve as lovers, […]

• Lab, BAL, Alb., alb, LAB, Lab., lab, abl.

bla

1. alternative form of blanga

• blan (Balearic)

Inherited from Latin blandus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbla]

bla (feminine blana, masculine plural blans, feminine plural blanes)

1. soft

   Synonym: tou

2. (figurative) mild, docile

   Synonym: dòcil

3. smooth

   Synonym: suau

4. (figurative) smooth, gentle

   Synonyms: suau, dolç, benigne

• blandícia
• Blanes

• “bla”, 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

bla (Old Fribourgeois, Old Lyonnais, Old Dauphinois) (Valdôtain, Dauphinois)

1. alternative form of blât (“wheat”)

• bllât in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*blād”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 15/1: Germanismes: A–Bryman, page 126

From Arabic بِلا (bi-lā, literally “with not”). By surface analysis, b’ +‎ le.

• IPA^(key): /blaː/
• Usually unstressed and then automatically shortened to /bla/.

bla

1. without (an ingredient, means, concomitant, quality)

   bla ħalib ― without milk

   • 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Ir-Riħ u l-Bnazzi”, in Mill-Gallerija ta’ Żgħożiti:

     Ħarbat, mewwet dawk id-dwieli,
     wild il-għaraq tal-ħaddiem,
     żomm il-fqir ġol-gorboġ waħdu,
     u bla ħobż, bla dawl, bla sliem!

     Destroy, kill those vines,
     the offspring of the worker’s sweat,
     keep the poor man in the hovel alone,
     without bread, without light, without peace!

• Bla negates the preposition b’. It is followed by a noun without any article or determiner. In all other cases, especially for the negation of ma’, the preposition mingħajr is used.

bla

1. alternative form of blo

bla m (plural blas)

1. blah (idle talk)

• blablablá, bla bla bla, bla-bla-bla
• blablá, bla bla, bla-bla

• “bla”, 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

bla

1. misspelling of bl.a.

• IPA^(key): /blaː/

bla

1. soft mutation of pla