köken: Inherited from Middle French balle, from northern Italian balla. Doublet of balle (“bundle”).
aile: à deux balles, à fond de balle, balle de break, balle de match, balle de plastique, balle de set, balle rapide, balle rebondissante, hockey-balle, renvoyer la balle
bullet, projectile (part of the ammunition for firearms) · candy, sweet · ecstasy (MDMA) pill
çekim: çoğul balas
eş: nota
köken: Borrowed from French balle, from Middle French balle from Northern Italian balla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla, *balla (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”).
aile: bala de prata, bala dum-dum, bala na agulha, bala perdida, balaço, baladeira, balear, balinha, homem-bala
Kenji Narukami: Ih, eu não tenho mais balas... Jushiro Fudo: Não é bala que se fala, é munição!
köken: From Byzantine Greek ὀρχίδιον (orkhídion), from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”). The change of the initial vowel from ο to α is due to the liaison from the plural: τὰ ὀρχίδια → (elision) τὰ ’ρχίδια → (rebracketing) τ’ ἀρχίδια.
marble (small ball used in games) · glass bead, pearl, precious gem
köken: First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 區戌 (Yale: *kwùsúl). In the hangul script, first attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 구슬〮 (Yale: kwùsúl). Related to, and possibly a suffixed form of, an element found in two ancient place name glosses from the Samguk Sagi: pseudo-Goguryeo 古斯 (*kwos(V)), apparently meaning “jade; precious…