25th week of the Balinese year of 210 days.
baläbala (NBali) n reel, spool.
baläbretya n peoples, hosts.
balätani n battalion, troop, army.
balabar (=belabar) n flood, inundation.
balah 1 n clod, lump of earth.
balah 2 n a side dish, eaten with rice.
balan n the weal raised by a blow with a thin stick or lash; intrans (malan trans) lash, whip, thrash.
balang n grasshopper, locust.
pan balang tamak ‘Mr Greedy Locust,’ the name of the shrewd peasant hero of folktales.
balap n race, contest in running; intrans race, run races.
balapa pass be overtaken in a race.
balap-an n a shoal of fish floating on the surface of the sea.
balé n a platform, raised on pillars, with a thatched roof, and walls on one or two sides; most houses have more than one of these in the complex, and the life of the family is lived on them, though the parents and the young children do not sleep on them but in a walled house. There are also balés in temples and in public places in villages.
baléné the balé; there are many sizes and shapes, and they are often reserved for particular uses.
balé bandung a balé in a temple, with twelve pillars below and decorated posts above.
balé banjar the meeting place of the sub-community called banjar (see banjar), which builds and maintains it.
balé buga in the Bali Haga village of Tenganan, the home of the girls’ society during the period of initiation.
balé gedé the big balé in the complex where visitors are entertained and meetings held.
balé gong the balés in temple complexes where the gagambelans play music for religious ceremonies
balé hagung a big balé in the village temple or in a palace, where big meetings are held.
balé mundak a six-pillared balé in a temple court.
balé pamahyasan the place where dancers dress for ceremonies in the inmost court of a temple.
balé pamujan the balé where the padandas perform their rites in a temple.
balé panggung a specially high balé, like a tower.
balé sakenemé a balé with six pairs of pillars, in a house-complex (sakenem with six), where most social activities take place (hence maheneman intrans chat, converse).
balé sari a balé of nine pillars in a temple court.
balébaléyan n a small model in the shape of a balé (this word-formation is frequent: reduplicated root + -an, indicating that the thing in question is a sham, an imitation of the thing named by the root).
baled 1 n a firefly that can give a painful sting.
baled-an n the stinging of this firefly.
baled 2 n a current of white water spreading out amongst blue water.
baleman n a fire, smoldering embers of wood, etc.; baleman sambuk embers of burning coconut husks.
balenggu (=blenggu) n irons for the feet, fetters.
ma-blenggu intrans be fettered.
balér-an H compar more towards the north/south (see kalér H, kaja L).
bales 1 n reward, recompense, desserts; intrans reward, repay, retaliate; respond, reply (to a letter) (=wales); bales budi gratitude.
bales 2 L adj violent; heavy (rain).
bales-an compar more violent, heavier (male-sang trans).
balét n ballet (D); higel balét ballet dancing.
baletek adj thick and short (body), stocky.
bali 1 n Bali; adj Balinese.
basa bali Balinese language.
cara bali in the Balinese way.
nusa bali, tanah bali island, land of Bali.
bali 2 intrans make offerings, sacrifice.
balinin pass was offered.
baliyan n shaman, healer, Balinese medical practitioner; baliyan getih n surgeon; baliyan jaran n horse-doctor; baliyan ketakson n a shaman who goes into trance (taksu a benevolent spirit); baliyan manak (=baliyan manakan) n midwife; baliyan ngéngngéngan n a shaman who uses formulae of healing (mantras); baliyan siksik n a shaman who goes into trance; baliyan tenung n one who uses letters (sastra); baliyan wisada n a lettered shaman.
bali 3 K adj very mighty, strong, able; n a hero.
bali 4 K n a kind of cricket (insect).
balih 1 L intrans (malih trans) look at, watch, inspect (tonton H).
balihbalihan n spectacle, performance to be watched.
balihin imp look at it!
ma-balih L intrans be a spectator (nonton H).
balih 2 intrans (malih trans) try, test, try on.
balihin imp try it!
balihina pass was tried by him.
balik pass be wrong way round, be reversed, (come) from the opposite side, plough (a field) over (malik trans).
balikan n returning; bwin habalikan ‘again one return’ (=in a future incarnation); adv (Raf) except, otherwise, nevertheless.
balikin pass seek to return.
balik sumpah n a ceremony to remove a curse (which returns to the one who placed the curse).
balolot adj pitch black.
balon n balloon (D).
balon listrik electric light bulb.
balong 1 n a tiny bat (animal).
balong 2 n a weed that spoils rice.
balongan n flying-fish.
balongsong n a metal cover (not a lid).
balu 1 L n (=balung) (rangda, randa H) widow, widower; adj widowed.
balu bunter, balu putung widow(er) without children.
balu ma-kabun widow left with daughters.
balu ma-karang widow left with sons.
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