bale
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English bale (“evil”), from Old English bealu, from Proto-West Germanic *balu, from Proto-Germanic *balwą.
Cognate with Low German bal- (“bad, ill”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (balweins, “torture”), Old High German balo (“destruction”), Old Norse bǫl (“disaster”).
Noun[edit]
bale (uncountable)
- Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
- Suffering, woe, torment.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932900760, page 441:
- That other ſwayne, like aſhes deadly pale, / Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], page 2, column 2:
- Rome, and her Rats, are at the point of battell, / The one ſide muſt haue baile.
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English bale (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Old English bǣl (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *bēlą (“pyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine; gleam; sparkle”). Cognate with Old Norse bál (which may have been the direct source for the English word).
Noun[edit]
bale (plural bales)
- (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
- (archaic) A funeral pyre.
- (archaic) A beacon-fire.
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Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English bale (“bale”), from Old French bale and Medieval Latin bala, of Germanic origin. Doublet of ball.
Noun[edit]
bale (plural bales)
- A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- So having made up my mind, I packed up in bales a quantity of precious stuffs suited for sea-trade and repaired with them from Baghdad-city to Bassorah-town, where I found ship ready for sea, and in her a company of considerable merchants.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
- A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
- A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
- A block of compressed cannabis.
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Further reading[edit]
Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb[edit]
bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)
- (transitive) To wrap into a bale.
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Etymology 4[edit]
Alternative spelling of bail.
Verb[edit]
bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)
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Buginese[edit]
Noun[edit]
bale
Dutch[edit]
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Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
bale
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French[edit]
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bale f (uncountable)
- chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)
Further reading[edit]
- “bale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian Creole[edit]
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Noun[edit]
bale
Verb[edit]
bale
- to sweep
Javanese[edit]
Noun[edit]
bale
- Dated spelling of balé.
Kapampangan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Philippine *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
balé
Derived terms[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English bealu, from Proto-West Germanic *balu, from Proto-Germanic *balwą.
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Noun[edit]
bale (plural bales)
- An evil or wrong act; a bad deed.
- Maliciousness, iniquity, damage.
- Devastation and doom; the causing of lifelessness.
- Woe or torment; hurting, agony.
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Descendants[edit]
- English: bale (dated)
References[edit]
- “bāle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
Adjective[edit]
bale
References[edit]
- “bāle, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
Etymology 2[edit]
Either from Old English bǣl, Old Norse bál, or a conflation of both; in any case, from Proto-Germanic *bēlą.
Pronunciation[edit]
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bale
- Any large fire; a bonfire or pyre.
- A fire for inhumation; a funeral pyre.
- A fire for execution or killing.
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “bāl(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
Etymology 3[edit]
Probably borrowed from Old French bale, balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish or Old High German balla (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz.
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Noun[edit]
bale (plural bales)
- A bale (rounded bundle)
Descendants[edit]
- English: bale
References[edit]
- “bāle, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- “bale”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Verb[edit]
bale (present tense balar, past tense bala, past participle bala, passive infinitive balast, present participle balande, imperative bale/bal)
- Alternative form of bala
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Homophones: Báli (Brazil), vale (Norte of Portugal)
- Hyphenation: ba‧le
Verb[edit]
bale
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin root *baba. Compare French bave, Italian bava, Spanish and Portuguese baba. The normal result, *ba, is not used as the singular has been replaced with bală through analogy.
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Noun[edit]
bale f pl (plural only)
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Saterland Frisian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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bale
- (intransitive) to speak
Conjugation[edit]
Grúundfoarme | bale | ||||||
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Infinitive | tou balen | ||||||
Present tense | Past tense | ||||||
iek | bale | wie | bale | iek | boalde | wie | boalden |
du | boalst | jie | bale | du | boaldest | jie | boalden |
hie/ju/dät | boalt | jo | bale | hie/ju/dät | boalde | jo | boalden |
Present participle | Imperative | Auxiliary | Past participle | ||||
balend | Singular | bale | häbe | boald | |||
Plural | balet |
References[edit]
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “bale”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
bale
- inflection of balar:
Tagalog[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Spanish vale, third-person singular present indicative form of valer (“to be worth”), from Old Spanish valer. Compare Chavacano vale.
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bale
- (colloquial) worth; value (usually used in the negative)
- promissory note; credit; IOU
- request of partial advanced payment
Adverb[edit]
bale
- used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question: so
- used before stating or enumerating the gist or summary of what is being discussed
- used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response or when one cannot start to speak
Adjective[edit]
bale
- (colloquial) valuable; important
- bought on credit
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