బల్ల
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[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]బల్ల • (balla) ? (plural బల్లలు)
- table; bench (particularly North Andhra)
- వారు బల్ల మీద కూర్చుండిరి.
- vāru balla mīda kūrcuṇḍiri.
- They were sitting on a bench.
- (pathology) enlargement of the spleen: splenomegaly.
- (Chittoor) unit equivalent to half of an Indian bushel
- (Telangana) penis
Derived terms
[edit]- బల్లకట్టు (ballakaṭṭu)
- బల్లపురుగు (ballapurugu)
References
[edit]- "బల్ల" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 872
- బల్ల at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
- “బల్ల”, in ప్రాంతీయ మాండలిక పదకోశం [Regional Dialectical Dictionary] (in Telugu), Hyderabad: Telugu Academy, 2004
- Nalimela Bhaskar (2010) “బల్ల”, in తెలంగాణ పదకోశం [Telangana Dictionary] (in Telugu)