# balla
## English
### Noun

balla (plural ballas)
* (slang, nonstandard) Alternative form of baller (all senses except "person who divides molten metal")

## Catalan
### Verb

balla
* inflection of ballar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Cimbrian
### Noun

balla f (plural balln)
* (Mezzaselva) Alternative form of valla

#### Declension
## Faroese
### Etymology

Related to sense 3 of English bale (“to wrap into a bale”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

### Verb

balla (third person singular past indicative ballaði, third person plural past indicative ballað, supine ballað)
* to wrap

#### Conjugation

$^1$Only the past participle being declined.

### Further reading

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Balla”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: ballas, ballât

### Verb

balla
* third-person singular past historic of baller

## Icelandic
### Noun

balla
* indefinite genitive plural of böllur

## Ilocano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: bal‧lá
* IPA: /balˈla/, [bɐlˈla]

### Noun

ballá
* frenzy
* (medicine) rabies
* white fish

#### Derived terms

* agballa

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* falla (Munster)

### Etymology

From Middle Irish *balla, from Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wallą (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).

### Pronunciation

* (Aran) IPA: /ˈbˠɑl̪ˠə/
* (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA: /ˈbˠal̪ˠə/
* Homophone: baladh (Cois Fharraige)

### Noun

balla m (genitive singular balla, nominative plural ballaí)
* (Connacht, Ulster) wall

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
balla
ballaí
vocative
a bhalla
a bhallaí
genitive
balla
ballaí
dative
balla
ballaí
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an balla
na ballaí
genitive
an bhalla
na mballaí
dative
leis an mballa don bhalla
leis na ballaí :

#### Derived terms

* balla adóibe (“adobe wall”)
* balla beag (“bed-wall (in old houses)”)
* balla brící (“brick wall”)
* balla cloiche (“stone wall”)
* balla fód (“earthen wall”)
* balla fuar (“dry, unmortared, wall”)
* balla istigh (“inner wall; inner side of wall”)
* balla mór (“main wall”)
* balla taca (“breast-wall”)
* ballachlár (“wallboard”)
* ceannbhalla (“headwall; hanging wall”)
* cúlbhalla (“back wall”)
* donnóg an bhalla (“wall brown”)
* frithbhalla (“counterscarp”)
* idirbhalla (“party wall”)
* páipéar balla (“wallpaper”)
* taobh-bhalla (“side-wall”)
* uchtbhalla (“parapet”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 206, page 79

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “balla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbal.la/
* Rhymes: -alla
* Hyphenation: bàl‧la

### Etymology 1

Uncertain.
* From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu.
* From Lombardic *palla, *balla.
Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla. Cognate with Sicilian baḍḍa, whence the dialectal doublet badda.

#### Noun

balla f (plural balle, diminutive ballétta or ballettìna, augmentative ballóna, pejorative ballàccia)
* large bundle, bale, reap
    Synonyms: fagotto, fardello, torsello
* falsehood, lie, malarkey
    Synonyms: bugia, frottola, fandonia
* (vulgar, usually in the plural) testicle, bollock
    Synonyms: palla, coglione

##### Derived terms

* imballare
* sballare

##### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: بالیه (balya)
** Turkish: balya

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

balla
* inflection of ballare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Lombard
### Etymology

Possibly from Lombardic *palla or Frankish *ball.

### Pronunciation

* (Milanese) IPA: /ˈballa/

### Noun

balla f (plural ball)
* ball

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* ballene

### Noun

balla n pl
* definite plural of ball (Etymology 2)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

balla n pl
* definite plural of ball (Etymology 2)

## Romansch
### Noun

balla f (plural ballas)
* (sports, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) ball

#### Synonyms

* (Sutsilvan) bura
* (Surmiran) bora

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish *balla, from Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wallą (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaɫ̪ə/

### Noun

balla m (genitive singular balla, plural ballachan)
* (architecture) wall

#### Declension
### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “balla”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page balla

## Swedish
### Adjective

balla
* inflection of ball:
** definite singular
** plural

#### See also

* balla ur