বল্লাল

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Old Bengali[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from a Dravidian source (compare Kannada ಬಲ್ಲಾಲ್ (ballāl)).

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

বল্লাল (ballāla)

  1. a male given name from Dravidian, held by Ballāla Sena (বল্লাল সেন), an early medieval king of Bengal

Further reading[edit]

  • Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[1], volume vi, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.