# balle
## Afrikaans
### Noun

balle
* plural of bal

## Dutch
### Verb

balle
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of ballen

### Anagrams

* label

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bal/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -al

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French balle, from northern Italian balla. Doublet of balle (Etymology 2).

#### Noun

balle f (plural balles)
* (small) ball
    balle de golfgolf ball
    balle de tennistennis ball
* bullet
* (colloquial) franc (French franc), euro

##### Derived terms

* à deux balles
* à fond de balle
* balle de break
* balle de match
* balle de plastique
* balle de set
* balle rapide
* hockey-balle
* renvoyer la balle
* saisir la balle au bond
* se tirer une balle
* trou de balle

##### Descendants

* → Portuguese: bala
* → Russian: балл (ball)
** → Armenian: բալ (bal)
** → Azerbaijani: bal
** → Georgian: ბალი (bali)

#### See also

* ballon (larger ball)
* boule, boulette
* pare-balles

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French balle (“large bundle, package”), from Old French bale (“rolled-up bundle, packet of goods”) and Medieval Latin bala, of Germanic origin. Cognate with English ball. Doublet of Etymology 1.

#### Noun

balle f (plural balles)
* bundle of goods; packet tied and held together with string

### Etymology 3

From Gaulish *balu.

#### Alternative forms

* bale

#### Noun

balle f (uncountable)
* chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)

### References

* Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

### Further reading

* “balle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* label

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alə

### Verb

balle
* inflection of ballen:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbal.le/
* Rhymes: -alle
* Hyphenation: bàl‧le

### Noun

balle f
* plural of balla

### Anagrams

* bella

## Latvian
### Etymology

From French bal (“a dance”).

### Noun

balle f (5th declension)
* ball (old-fashioned spacious, luxurious dancing party)
    balles tērps ― ball dress, clothes
    zaļumu balle ― open-air ball, dancing party
    masku balle ― masquerade (lit. mask ball)
* (colloquial) a small party, with food and drinks
    vakar pēc sapulces ceplī bijusi īsta balle ― yesterday after the meeting in the kiln there was a real ball

#### Derived terms

* zaļumballe, zaļumu balle

### Noun

balle f (5th declension)
* point (on a scale), grade, level
    atzīmes 10-ballu skalā ― marks on a 10-point scale

#### Declension
## Limburgish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɑ.lə/
* Hyphenation: bal‧le
* Rhymes: -ɑlə

### Etymology 1

From bal +‎ -e.

#### Verb

balle
* (intransitive) to play with a ball

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

balle
* inflection of bal:
** (some dialects, mainly West Limburgish) nominative plural
** (archaic) accusative singular

## Middle English
### Noun

balle
* Alternative form of bal

## Middle French
### Etymology 1

From northern Italian balla (“ball”).

#### Noun

balle f (plural balles)
* ball (spherical object used in games)
** small metal ball used as artillery

##### Coordinate terms

* boulet

##### Descendants

* French: balle
** → Portuguese: bala
*** → Shona: bala

### Etymology 2

From Old French balle, from Frankish *balla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”).

#### Noun

balle f (plural balles)
* bundle

##### Descendants

* French: balle

## Moore
### Etymology

from French balle

### Noun

balle
* ball (object)

## Norman
### Etymology

Of Germanic origin.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Noun

balle f (plural balles)
* (Jersey) ball
* (Jersey) bullet

#### Derived terms

* balle-à-leunettes (“jack o'lantern”)
* balle dé l'yi (“eyeball”)

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈpalle/

### Verb

balle
* inflection of ballat:
** first-person dual present indicative
** third-person plural past indicative

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbaˌlɛ/

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

balle
* definite natural masculine singular of ball

### Etymology 2

From Old Swedish balder, baller, from Old Norse bǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Doublet of boll and bulle. Compare Old English bealluc, English bollock, Danish balde (“buttock”). First attested in 1520.

#### Noun

balle c (colloquial)
* (colloquial, vulgar) a schlong, cock ((larger) penis)
** 1993, Helga Kress, “Vad en kvinna kväder. Kultur och kön på Island i fornnordisk medeltid [What a woman feels. Culture and gender in Iceland in the Old Norse Middle Ages]”, in Elisabeth Møller Jensen, editor, Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria I [Nordic history of women's literature I]‎, page 59:Trälen skär av "med ett raskt snitt den lem, som efter naturens ordning det slags skapelser har till avlande... och som, efter vad de gamla skalderna säger, heter ballen på hästar". Bondsonen kommer skrattande in i rummet till sin mor, syster och trälkvinnan och hotar dem med ballen. Han kväder en smädevers. där han ger ballen namnet Völse (etymologiskt detsamma som fallos).The thrall cuts off "with a quick cut the limb, which, according to the order of nature, this kind of creation [(horse)] has for breeding... and which, according to what the old poets say, is on horses called the [penis]". The farm-son comes laughing into the room of his mother, sister and thrall woman and threatens them with the [penis]. He chants a slanderous verse, where he gives the [penis] the name Völse (etymologically the same as phallus).
* (colloquial, usually in the plural) a testicle
* (Southern) a buttock

##### Derived terms

* raggarballe med svängdörr
* suga balle (“suck cock”)
* vinballe (“whiskey dick”)

#### See also

* kuk

### Etymology 3

Originally formed in its definitive form ballen as a humorous contraction of balkongen (“the balcony”), partly influenced by the sense ballen (“the penis; the scrotum”).

#### Noun

balle c (colloquial)
* (humorous) a balcony
    Synonym: balkong
** 2011 September 21, Kenza Zouiten, “Sitter på ballen med en kall cola”, in Kenzas.se‎ (blog):Jag har hittat internet ute på ballen! Inte så stark signalstyrka dock så det går lite segt…I've found internet out on the balcony! The signal strength isn't that strong though, so it's a bit slow...
** 2013 July 7, “Kulan och jag på ballen”, in Hon kallas Tess‎ (blog):Solen skiner, jag och kulan [gravidmage] sitter på ballen och försöker få lite färg, orkar inte sitta i denna hetta egentligen känner mig som en svullen flodhäst!The sun is shining, me and the bump [pregnant belly] are sitting on the balcony trying to get some color, don't really have the energy to sit in this heat, feeling like a swollen hippo!
** 2021 April 21, Patrik Isaksson, “patrikisakssonofficial”, in Instagram‎ (social media):Sitter på ballen nu å njuter. Hoppas ni har en härlig dag.Sitting on the balcony now enjoying. Hope you have a wonderful day.

##### Declension
### References

* ↑ balle in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* balle in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* balle in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* balle in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* Fula Ordboken
* Slangopedia
* balder in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L