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balefire
English
Etymology
From Middle English bale-fyre, from Old English b?lf?r (“balefire, funeral or sacrificial fire”); equivalent to bale (Etymology 2) +? fire.
Noun
balefire (plural balefires)
- An outdoor fire used in witches' rituals.
Related terms
- bale
- fire
See also
- bonfire
- pyre
Translations
Anagrams
- afebrile, fireable
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bale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be??l/, [?be??(?)?], [be???]
- Rhymes: -e?l
- Homophone: bail
Etymology 1
From Middle English bale (“evil”), from Old English bealo, from Proto-Germanic *balw?. Cognate with Low German bal- (“bad, ill”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (balweins, “torture”), Old High German balo (“destruction”), Old Norse b?l (“disaster”).
Noun
bale (uncountable)
- Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
- Suffering, woe, torment.
Derived terms
- baleful
Etymology 2
From Middle English bale (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Old English b?l (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *b?l? (“pyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine; gleam; sparkle”). Cognate with Old Norse bál (which may have been the direct source for the English word).
Noun
bale (plural bales)
- (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
- (archaic) A funeral pyre.
- (archaic) A beacon-fire.
Derived terms
- balefire
Etymology 3
From Middle English bale (“bale”), from Old French bale and Medieval Latin bala, of Germanic origin. Doublet of ball.
Noun
bale (plural bales)
- A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- So having made up my mind, I packed up in bales a quantity of precious stuffs suited for sea-trade and repaired with them from Baghdad-city to Bassorah-town, where I found ship ready for sea, and in her a company of considerable merchants.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
- A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
- A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
Coordinate terms
- (measurement of paper): bundle, quire, ream
Derived terms
- bale of dice
Translations
Further reading
- Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)
- (transitive) To wrap into a bale.
Translations
Etymology 4
Alternative spelling of bail.
Verb
bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)
- (Britain, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
Translations
Further reading
- Bale in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- -able, Abel, Able, Beal, Blea, Ebla, Elba, able, albe, bael, beal, blea
Buginese
Noun
bale
- fish
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
bale
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of balen
Anagrams
- Abel
French
Alternative forms
- balle
Etymology
From Gaulish *balu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bal/
Noun
bale f (uncountable)
- chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French balai.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.le/
Noun
bale
- broom
Verb
bale
- to sweep
Javanese
Noun
bale
- Dated spelling of balé.
Kapampangan
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Noun
balé
- house
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bealo, from Proto-Germanic *balw?.
Alternative forms
- balu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?l(?)/
Noun
bale (plural bales)
- An evil or wrong act; a bad deed.
- Maliciousness, iniquity, damage.
- Devastation and doom; the causing of lifelessness.
- Woe or torment; hurting, agony.
Related terms
- baleful
- bale-siðe
Descendants
- English: bale (dated)
References
- “b?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
Adjective
bale
- decisive, ruinous, vicious
- tormentuous, painful, hurtful
References
- “b?le, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
Etymology 2
Either from Old English b?l, Old Norse bál, or a conflation of both; in any case, from Proto-Germanic *b?l?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?l/
Noun
bale
- Any large fire; a bonfire or pyre.
- A fire for inhumation; a funeral pyre.
- A fire for execution or killing.
Related terms
- bale-fyre
Descendants
- English: bale (archaic)
- Scots: bale
References
- “b?l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
Etymology 3
Probably from Old French bale, balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish or Old High German balla (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz.
Alternative forms
- bala, ball
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?l(?)/
Noun
bale (plural bales)
- A bale (rounded bundle)
Descendants
- English: bale
References
- “b?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- “bale”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
bale (present tense balar, past tense bala, past participle bala, passive infinitive balast, present participle balande, imperative bal)
- Alternative form of bala
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Homophones: Bali (Brazil), vale (Norte of Portugal)
- Hyphenation: ba?le
Verb
bale
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of balar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of balar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of balar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of balar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of balir
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of balir
Romanian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin root *baba. Compare French bave, Italian bava, Spanish and Portuguese baba. The normal result, *ba, is not used as the singular has been replaced with bal? through analogy.
Noun
bale f pl (plural only)
- slobber, drool, dribble, saliva
Declension
Synonyms
- saliv?
Derived terms
- b?los
Spanish
Verb
bale
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of balar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of balar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of balar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of balar.
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- bali
Etymology
From Spanish vale, second-person singular present indicative form of valer (“to be worth”), from Old Spanish valer, from Latin val?re, present active infinitive of vale? (“to be worth”), from Proto-Italic *wal??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wl?h?éh?yeti, from *h?welh?- (“to rule, be strong”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bá?le
Noun
bále
- An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
Conjunction
bále
- so; Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
- so; Used to introduce a rhetorical question.
Interjection
bále
- Used before stating or enumerating the gist or summary of what is being discussed.
- Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response or when one cannot start to speak.
Adjective
bále
- with value or importance
Derived terms
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French ballet.
Noun
bale (definite accusative baleyi, plural baleler)
- ballet
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