ბალი

• IPA^(key): /bɑli/
• Hyphenation: ბა‧ლი

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *bal-, from an unknown Asianic source. Cognate with Mingrelian ბული (buli) and Laz ბული (buli). Compare Persian بالو‎ (bālū)

ბალი • (bali) (plural ბალები)

1. cherry
2. sweet cherry

• Ossetian: бал (bal)
• Hunzib: бали́, багӏли́

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 7
• penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 92
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 46
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “բալ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

From French balle, possibly via Russian балл (ball)

ბალი • (bali) (plural ბალები)

1. (in describing wave, wind etc.) point
2. (in compounds) mark, grade, score

From French bal

ბალი • (bali) (plural ბალები)

1. ball, dance