# balo
## Acholi
### Verb

balo
* to spoil

## Bikol Central
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbalo/ [ˈba.l̪o]
* Hyphenation: ba‧lo

#### Noun

bálo (Basahan spelling ᜊᜎᜓ)
* widow
    Synonym: biyuda
* widower
    Synonym: biyudo

##### Derived terms

* mabalo
* makabalo

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baˈloʔ/ [baˈl̪oʔ]
* Hyphenation: ba‧lo

#### Verb

balô (plural baralo, Basahan spelling ᜊᜎᜓ)
* (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) to try; to attempt
    Synonym: probar

##### Derived terms

* baluan
* magbalo

## Bwatoo
### Etymology

From French ballon.

### Noun

balo
* ball

#### Synonyms

* bool

### References

* Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN)

## Cebuano
### Alternative forms

* bawo

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧lo

### Noun

balo
* the houndfish (Tylosurus crocodilus)

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbalo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alo
* Hyphenation: ba‧lo

### Noun

balo (accusative singular balon, plural baloj, accusative plural balojn)
* ball (formal dance)

## Higaonon
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

### Noun

balo
* widow

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

#### Noun

bálo
* widow

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

balò
* an alarm or warning

#### Verb

balò
* to warn of danger

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

balô
* a slip knot or noose

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

baló
* (obsolete) to know

## Ilocano
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbalo/ [ˈbɐ.lo]
* Hyphenation: bá‧lo

### Noun

bálo
* widow; widower

#### Derived terms

* mabalo
* nabaluan

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* ballo

### Etymology

From Toraja-Sa'dan [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbalo/
* Hyphenation: ba‧lo

### Noun

balo (plural balo-balo)
* alcoholic beverage made of aren palm

### Further reading

* “balo” 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.

## Karao
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

### Noun

balo
* widow; widower

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* bēlō

### Etymology

From an onomatopoeic Proto-Indo-European *bē-. Compare Ancient Greek βῆ (bê) and Latin bebō (“I yell, scream”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbaː.loː/, [ˈbäːɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈba.lo/, [ˈbäːlo]

### Verb

bālō (present infinitive bālāre, perfect active bālāvī, supine bālātum); first conjugation, no passive
* (intransitive) to bleat, baa
* (intransitive) to talk foolishly

#### Derived terms

* bālāns
* bālātus
* dībālō

#### Descendants

* Italian: belare
* Portuguese: balar
* Spanish: balar

### References

* “balo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “balo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* balo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bē-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 96-97

## Maranao
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

### Noun

balo
* widow

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *balu, see also Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (balweins, “torture”), Old English bealu, Old Norse bǫl.

### Noun

balo n
* destruction

#### Derived terms

* Old High German: balolīhho

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: bale
** ⇒ Middle High German: balheit

## Old Saxon
### Noun

balo n
* Alternative form of balu

## Portuguese
### Verb

balo
* first-person singular present indicative of balar
* first-person singular present indicative of balir

## Romani
### Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀩𑀸𑀮 (bāla), from Sanskrit बाल (bāla).

### Noun

balo m (nominative plural bale)
* pig

### References

* 1 2 3 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bālá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 520
* 1 2 3 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “baló”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 19a
* ↑ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o bal/o, -es m. -e, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 73a

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbalo]

### Noun

balo f
* vocative singular of bală

## Sambali
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

#### Noun

balo
* widow; widower

### Etymology 2
#### Conjunction

balô
* but

## Spanish
### Verb

balo
* first-person singular present indicative of balar

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *balu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu. Compare Malay balu.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbalo/ [ˈbaː.lo]
* Rhymes: -alo
* Syllabification: ba‧lo

#### Noun

balo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ)
* widow; widower
    Synonyms: (female) biyuda, (male) biyudo

##### Alternative forms

* bao
* bauo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
* bawo — obsolete

##### Derived terms

* balo-baluhan
* baluhin
* kabaluhan
* mabalo
* mabaluhin
* pagkabalo

##### See also

* bulandal

#### Adjective

balo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ)
* widowed (of a person)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbalo/ [ˈbaː.lo]
* Rhymes: -alo
* Syllabification: ba‧lo

#### Noun

balo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ) (obsolete)
* act of fooling oneself into thinking one over the other
* act of losing one's strength

##### Derived terms

* balo-balo
* baluhin
* mabalo
* mabaluhan ng lakas
* magbalo
* makabalo
* mambalo

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbaloʔ/ [ˈbaː.loʔ]
* Rhymes: -aloʔ
* Syllabification: ba‧lo

#### Noun

balò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ) (obsolete)
* rope made from a strange liana

##### Derived terms

* baluan
* baluin
* himalo
* magbalo

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbaloʔ/ [ˈbaː.loʔ]
* Rhymes: -aloʔ
* Syllabification: ba‧lo

#### Interjection

balò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ) (obsolete)
* nothing!
    Synonym: wala

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /baˈlo/ [bɐˈlo]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: ba‧lo

#### Noun

baló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜓ) (obsolete)
* act of scaring children with duendes

##### Derived terms

* baluhin
* mabalo
* magbalo
* makabalo
* mambalo

### References

* Rosalio Serrano (1854) Diccionario de terminos comunes tagalo-castellano‎ (in Spanish), page 16
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

### Anagrams

* bola, labo

## Ternate
### Etymology

Likely related to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baluj; see Uneapa balu (“dove”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈba.lo/

### Noun

balo
* either the wood pigeon or the green pigeon

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Uzbek
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ).

### Noun

balo (plural balolar)
* affliction