balar

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balaR. Cognate with Maori para (“turned yellow, sere, discoloured”).

• IPA^(key): /balar/
• Rhymes: -ar

balar (Jawi spelling بالر)

1. (especially of a water buffalo) Albino; congenital lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes).

   Synonym: albino

• “balar”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary — *balaR

• balir

From Latin bālāre.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: ba‧lar

balar (first-person singular present balo, first-person singular preterite balei, past participle balado)

1. to baa; to bleat (of sheep: to make its characteristic cry)

Inherited from Latin bālāre.

• IPA^(key): /baˈlaɾ/ [baˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ba‧lar

balar (first-person singular present balo, first-person singular preterite balé, past participle balado)

1. (intransitive) to bleat

• “balar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

balar

1. indefinite plural of bal

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بالار (balar, “joist, rafter”), from Persian [Term?].

balar (definite accusative baları, plural balarlar)

1. shingle, a thin board used as a covering for the roof

   Synonym: padavra

• “balar”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “balar”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “balar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 449