balai

• Hyphenation: ba‧la‧i

balai

1. the godmother of one's child
2. the mother of one's godchild

From French balai.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalai/

balai (present balaas, past balais, future balaos, conditional balaus, volitive balau)

1. to sweep

From Old French balain (“bundle of broom”), from Middle Breton balain, balazn, from Old Breton balan or Gaulish *balano-, from Proto-Celtic *banatlo- (“broom plant”).

• IPA^(key): /ba.lɛ/

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balai m (plural balais)

1. broom
2. broomstick flown by witches
3. (colloquial) the last bus or train (at night)
4. tail (of a bird of prey)
5. brush (electrical contact)
6. blade (of windscreen wiper)
7. (slang) year (used in referring to someone’s age)

   Elle a quarante balais ― She’s forty

• manche à balai
• voiture-balai

• “balai” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Malay balai, from Proto-Malayic *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

balai (plural balai-balai, first-person possessive balaiku, second-person possessive balaimu, third-person possessive balainya)

1. a public hall or building
2. an office or bureau
3. a house of parliament

From Proto-Malayic *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

• IPA^(key): /balai̯/
• Rhymes: -alai̯, -lai̯, -ai̯

balai (Jawi spelling بلاي‎, plural balai-balai, informal first-person possessive balaiku, informal second-person possessive balaimu, third-person possessive balainya)

1. hall, large building, or station for public uses
2. (possibly obsolete) house

• (house): rumah

• balai polis
• balai raya

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpalaj/

balai

1. third-person singular past indicative of ballat

balai

1. second-person plural (vós, sometimes used with vocês) affirmative imperative of balar

• Hyphenation: ba‧la‧e

balai

1. co-parent-in-law
2. co-mother-in-law
3. co-father-in-law