# balot
## English
### Noun

balot (plural balots)
* Alternative form of balut

### Anagrams

* Balto-, Blato, bloat

## Bikol Central
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Tagalog balut.

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧lot
* IPA: /baˈlot/ [baˈl̪ot]

#### Noun

balót
* an Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧lot
* IPA: /ˈbaʔlot/ [ˈbaʔ.l̪ot]

#### Noun

bâlot
* alternation

##### Derived terms

* baro-balot

## Cebuano
### Alternative forms

* balut — nonstandard

### Etymology

From Tagalog balut.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧lot

### Noun

balot
* an Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English ballot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /balɔt̚/
* Hyphenation: ba‧lot

### Noun

balot (plural balot-balot)
* (government, politics) a vote in election
* (government, politics) ballot, a list of candidates running for office; a ticket

### Further reading

* “balot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ballot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈba.lɔt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alɔt
* Syllabification: ba‧lot

### Noun

balot m inan
* bale (rounded bundled goods)
* bale (rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation, ten reams)
    Synonyms: bal, bela
* (historical) ballot (process of voting in secret by means of a small ball placed in a container to cast a vote or a piece of paper or card)
    Synonym: balotaż

#### Derived terms

* balotować impf

#### Related terms

* balotaż

### Further reading

* balot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* balot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ballot.

### Noun

balot n (plural baloturi)
* bundle, package

#### Declension
## Tagalog
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balut. Compare Malay balut.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /ˈbalot/ [ˈbaː.lot̪̚] (“wrapper; (act of) wrapping; package”, noun)
*** Rhymes: -alot
** IPA: /baˈlot/ [bɐˈlot̪̚] (“wrapped”, adjective; “balut”, noun)
*** Rhymes: -ot
* Syllabification: ba‧lot

### Noun

balot (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓᜆ᜔)
* wrapper; wrapping material
    Synonym: pambalot
* act of wrapping
* package
    Synonyms: pakete, kaha

#### Derived terms

* alsa-balutan
* balot-aklat
* balutan
* balutin
* bumalot
* ibalot
* ipabalot
* ipagbalot
* mabalot
* mabalutan
* magbalot

#### See also

* sharon

### Adjective

balót (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓᜆ᜔)
* wrapped; covered with wrapping material

#### Derived terms

* balot sa puti

### Noun

balót (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓᜆ᜔)
* Alternative form of balut

### Further reading

* “balot”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*balut₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

### Anagrams

* tabol, lobat, bolta, talob