balai
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Esperanto [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French balai.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈbalai/
Verb [edit]
balai (present balaas, past balais, future balaos, conditional balaus, volitive balau)
- to sweep
Conjugation [edit]
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Conjugation of balai
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French balain (“bundle of broom”), from Old Breton balan or Gaulish *balano-.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
balai m (plural balais)
- broom
- broomstick flown by witches
- (colloquial) the last bus or train (at night)
- tail (of a bird of prey)
- brush (electrical contact)
- (slang) year (used in referring to someone’s age)
- Elle a quarante balais — She’s forty
Derived terms [edit]
Indonesian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Malay balai, from Proto-Malayic *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Noun [edit]
balai
Malay [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Malayic *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
balai
Derived terms [edit]
Synonyms [edit]
- (house): rumah
Categories:
- Esperanto terms derived from French
- Esperanto verbs
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Old Breton
- French terms derived from Gaulish
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French colloquialisms
- French slang
- Indonesian terms derived from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Malayic
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Indonesian nouns
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayic
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Malay nouns