baló

See also: Appendix:Variations of "balo"

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [bəˈlu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [bəˈlo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [baˈlo]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -o

Noun

baló m (plural balons)

1. ball (solid or hollow sphere)
2. balloon
3. spherical flask
4. twenty reams of paper, that is ten thousand sheets

Related terms

• baló aerostàtic
• baló d'oxigen
• baló sonda

Further reading

• “baló”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “baló”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “baló” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “baló”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈlo/ [baˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ba‧ló

Verb

baló

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of balar