balu

• IPA^(key): /balu/ [ba.lu]

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• Rhymes: -alu
• Hyphenation: ba‧lu

balu

1. Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, conditional indicative form of izan.

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

• IPA^(key): /balu/

balu

1. dead

• Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary 2003

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.lu/
• Rhymes: -lu
• Hyphenation: ba‧lu

Inherited from Malay balu (“widow”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

balu (plural balu-balu, first-person possessive baluku, second-person possessive balumu, third-person possessive balunya)

1. widower

   Synonym: duda

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balu (plural balu-balu, first-person possessive baluku, second-person possessive balumu, third-person possessive balunya)

1. dark green

   balu:  

   Synonym: hijau tua

2. parsley green

   balu:  

   Synonym: kuning kehijauan

Borrowed from Medanese Malay [Term?].

balu (plural balu-balu, first-person possessive baluku, second-person possessive balumu, third-person possessive balunya)

1. (dialect) fine hairs on the forehead or nape of the neck

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?].

balu (plural balu-balu, first-person possessive baluku, second-person possessive balumu, third-person possessive balunya)

1. (dialect) a buoy made of plastic or cork, tied to the edge of the net to prevent it from sinking

• “balu” 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.
• Pusat Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa (1984) Daftar Istilah Warna [Colour Terms List] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu. Cognate with Tagalog balo.

• IPA^(key): /balu/
• Rhymes: -alu, -lu, -u

balu (Jawi spelling بالو, plural balu-balu, informal 1st possessive baluku, 2nd possessive balumu, 3rd possessive balunya)

1. widow

   Synonyms: janda, randa

2. thunder; the sound heard right after lightning strikes

   Synonym: guruh

• Indonesian: balu

• duda
• yatim

• “balu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary - *balu₄

balu

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of bale (“evil”)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpaluː/

balu

1. accusative/genitive singular of ballu

• balo

From Proto-West Germanic *balu (“evil”).

Cognate with Old Frisian balu, Old English bealu, Old High German balo, Old Norse bǫl, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (balweins, “torture”), Icelandic böl (“evil, misfortune, disaster”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlu/

balu n

1. evil, malice
2. destruction

• 𐴁𐴝𐴓𐴟 (balu) — Hanifi Rohingya script

balu (Hanifi spelling 𐴁𐴝𐴓𐴟)

1. sand

• IPA^(key): /ba.ˈlu/, [ba.ˈlu]

balu

1. flower

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

balu

1. widow

From Proto-Oceanic *baluc with irregular loss of *c, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baluj, from Proto-Austronesian *baʀuj.

• IPA^(key): /balu/

balu

1. dove

• Ross, Malcolm D. (2011) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 4, Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)