balun

See also: bälun and bàlùn

English

Two twisted pair-to-coaxial baluns

Etymology

Clipping of balanced–unbalanced. Compare modem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbælən/, /ˈbælˌʌn/

Noun

balun (plural baluns)

1. An electronic device for connecting a balanced transmission line to an unbalanced one.
   • 2001, Rick Sturdivant, Balun Design for Wireless: Mixers, Amplifiers and Antennas, in Practical Filters and Couplers, Noble Publishing Corporation, page 25,

     Baluns find wide use in mixer, antenna and balanced amplifier circuits. Yet balun design is still regarded as if it were black magic by many engineers partly due to the fact that practical design information on baluns can be difficult to find.

   • 2005, Thomas A. Milligan, Modern Antenna Design, 2nd edition, Wiley, page 253:

     The Roberts balun [23] design adds an open-circuited stub λ/4 long inside the dummy coax of the folded balun.

   • 2009, Jon B. Hagen, Radio-Frequency Electronics: Circuits and Applications, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 177:

     In (e) a balun at the end of the coaxial feedline provides equal and opposite voltages to each side of the dipole and eliminates any current from the outside of the feedline.

Translations

electronic device

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 換衡器 / 换衡器

• Danish: balun ?
• Finnish: baluuni
• French: balun (fr) m
• German: Balun m
• Italian: balun (it) m
• Japanese: バラン (baran)
• Portuguese: balun (pt) m
• Spanish: balun m

Anagrams

• NuLab

Epigraphic Mayan

Alternative forms

• bolon
• ⟨𝋩⟩

Numeral

balun

1. nine

Kavalan

Noun

balun

1. belt; girdle

Minjungbal

Noun

balun

1. creek
2. river

References

• Sharpe, Margaret (1998), Dictionary of Yugambeh including Neighbouring Dialects (Pacific Linguistics), Canberra: The Australian National University, →DOI, page 44

Portuguese

Noun

balun m (plural baluns)

1. balun (device that connects an unbalanced transmission to a balanced one)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎluːn/
• Hyphenation: ba‧lun

Noun

bàlūn m inan (Cyrillic spelling ба̀лӯн)

1. (Dalmatia) ball

Declension

Declension of balun

	singular	plural
nominative	bàlūn	baluni
genitive	balúna	baluna
dative	balunu	balunima
accusative	balun	balune
vocative	balune	baluni
locative	balunu	balunima
instrumental	balunom	balunima

Tarifit

Alternative forms

• baḷun

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *ballôder.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.

Proto-Germanic *balluzder.

Frankish *balluder.

Medieval Latin balla

Old French balleder.?

Proto-Germanic *ballôder.

▲

Proto-Germanic *balluzder.

Lombardic *pallader.?

Italian ballader.

Middle French balle

French ballebor.

Spanish bala

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ō

Spanish -ón

Spanish balónbor.

Tarifit balun

Borrowed from Spanish balón.

Pronunciation

• (Nador) IPA^(key): [βˤɑ.lˤʊnˤ]
• Syllabification: ba‧lun
• Rhymes: -ʊnˤ

Noun

balun m (Tifinagh spelling ⴱⴰⵍⵓⵏ)

1. ball

   Synonyms: tcamma, tacurt

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• Serhoual (2002)
• Abarrou (2024)