balg

See also: Balg

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch balch, from Old Dutch balg, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɑlx/
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  • Hyphenation: balg
  • Rhymes: -ɑlx
  • Rhymes: -ɑlx

Noun

balg m (plural balgen, diminutive balgje n)

  1. leather bag
  2. bellows
  3. (falconry) fake bait for training birds
  4. cover for moving joints, as in articulated buses
  5. (dialectal) belly

Derived terms
  • (bellows): blaasbalg (bellows)
  • (cover): vouwbalg
  • (belly): balgpijn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bolg m (“bag, satchel; sack; belly, stomach; (smith's) bellows”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).

Noun

balg m (genitive singular builg, plural builg)

  1. (anatomy) abdomen, belly
  2. bladder
  3. blister
  4. (dated) bag

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • balg-abhrais m (“wool-bag; batch of wool”)
  • balgaich (“belly out, as a sail; stow in a bag or satchel; puff, blister, swell”)
  • balg-béice m (“fuzzball, sponge mushroom”)
  • balg-bhonn m (“pneumatic tyre of a cycle”)
  • balg-buachrach m (“mushroom”)
  • balg-chasach (“bow-legged, bandy-legged”)
  • balg-dhubh (“cloudy, dark, gloomy”)
  • balg-dubh m (“large fuzzball”)
  • balg-iongrach m (“abscess”)
  • balg-meadhain m (“waist, belly”)
  • balg-péiteach m, balg-smùid m (“puffball”)
  • balg-séididh m (“pair of bellows; puffball”)
  • balg-shaighde m (“quiver”)
  • balg-shùil f (“large prominent eye”)
  • balg-solair m (“magazine”)
  • balg-thional m (“wallet”)

References
  • “1 bolg” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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