bale

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
 * 2) Suffering, woe, torment.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 (which may have been the direct source for the English word).

Noun

 * 1)  A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
 * 2)  A funeral pyre.
 * 3)  A beacon-fire.

Etymology 3
From, from and , of  origin. .

Noun

 * 1) A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
 * 2) A bundle of compressed fibers (especially hay, straw, cotton, or wool), compacted for shipping and handling and bound by twine or wire.
 * 3) A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
 * 4) A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
 * 5) A block of compressed cannabis.
 * 1) A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
 * 2) A block of compressed cannabis.

Translations

 * Belarusian: цюк
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: fardo, bala, paca
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: тюк


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: bala, paca
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: pēre, paere
 * Norwegian: høyballe
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:
 * Walloon: botea, balot, rowe di strin
 * Yiddish: באַלן


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To wrap into a bale.

Derived terms

 * bale up

Translations

 * Bulgarian: балирам
 * Catalan: ,
 * Finnish:, paalittaa
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Maori: pēre
 * Polish: balotować, belować
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

Etymology 4
Alternative spelling of.

Verb

 * 1)  To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.

Etymology
.

Interjection

 * 1)  okay

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) chaff inedible casing of a grain seed

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) broom

Verb

 * 1) to sweep

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) house

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) An evil or wrong act; a bad deed.
 * 2) Maliciousness, iniquity, damage.
 * 3) Devastation and doom; the causing of lifelessness.
 * 4) Woe or torment; hurting, agony.

Adjective

 * 1)  decisive, ruinous, vicious
 * 2) tormentuous, painful, hurtful

Etymology 2
Either from, , or a conflation of both; in any case, from.

Noun

 * 1) Any large fire; a bonfire or pyre.
 * 2) A fire for inhumation; a funeral pyre.
 * 3) A fire for execution or killing.

Etymology 3
Probably, , from , from or , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A  rounded bundle

Etymology
From. The noun sense is derived from how papeda is served by turning it around a pair of tongs; a serving is thus called a turn of papeda.

Verb



 * 1)  to turn around
 * 2)  to reverse

Noun

 * 1)  a portion, serving

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) open building
 * 2) pavilion
 * 3) hall

Etymology
root. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The normal result, *ba, is not used as the singular has been replaced with through analogy.

Noun

 * 1) slobber, drool, dribble, saliva

Etymology
. Perhaps a corruption of, whence also 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to speak

Etymology
, third-person singular present indicative form of, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  worth; value
 * 2) promissory note; credit; IOU
 * 3) request of partial advanced payment

Adverb

 * : so

Adjective

 * 1)  valuable; important
 * 2) bought on credit

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) ballet