بال

• IPA^(key): /baː.la/
  • (Central Asia) IPA^(key): /bōl/[1]

Found in dictionaries as if from the root ب و ل‎ (b-w-l), but actually not relatable to any root. It is explained as reanalysis of بَاءَ لِي‎ (bāʾa lī, “it has come upon me”); predating Arabic literature by a millenium at least since there is Biblical Aramaic בָּל‎ (bāl, “mind, heed”).

بَال • (bāl) m

1. mind, state
2. attention, mindfulness, heed

• بَالَى‎ (bālā)

From the root ب و ل‎ (b-w-l) related to urine.

بَالَ • (bāla) I, non-past يَبُولُ‎‎ (yabūlu)

1. to urinate

See the etymology of the main entry.

بَالِ • (bāli) (form III)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of بَالَى‎ (bālā)

• “bl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Bauer, Hans (1935), “Etymologica I”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete (in German), volume 10, page 1
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “بال”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 174
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “بال”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 180
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “بال”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “بال”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 124

From Urdu بال‎ (bāl), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮 (vāla), from Sanskrit वाल (vāla).

بال • (bāl) m

1. (LDA) hair

   Synonym: વાળ (vāḷ) (Standard Gujarati)

IPA^(key): /báːl/

بال (baál) m

1. child

From Middle Persian b’lk’ (bālag, “wing”)

• IPA^(key): /bɒːl/

بال • (bâl)

1. wing

IPA^(key): /báːl/

بال (baál) m

1. boy, child

• IPA^(key): /bɒːl/

From Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮 (vāla), from Sanskrit वाल (vāla)

بال • (bāl) m (Hindi spelling बाल)

1. hair

• → Lisan ud-Dawat Gujarati: بال (bāl)

Borrowed from Persian بال‎ (bâl)

بال • (bāl) m (Hindi spelling बाल)

1. feather
2. wing