balai
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ba‧la‧i
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbalai/
Verb
balai (present balaas, past balais, future balaos, conditional balaus, volitive balau)
- to sweep
Conjugation
Conjugation of balai
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French
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.lɛ/
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Noun
balai m (plural balais)
- broom
- broomstick flown by witches
- (colloquial) the last bus or train (at night)
- tail (of a bird of prey)
- brush (electrical contact)
- blade (of windscreen wiper)
- (slang) year (used in referring to someone’s age)
- Elle a quarante balais ― She’s forty
Derived terms
Further reading
- “balai” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay balai, from Proto-Malayic *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /balai̯/
- Rhymes: -alai̯, -lai̯, -ai̯
Noun
balai (Jawi spelling بلاي, plural balai-balai, informal first-person possessive balaiku, informal second-person possessive balaimu, third-person possessive balainya)
Synonyms
- (house): rumah
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpalaj/
Portuguese
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ba‧la‧e
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