بلاء

Arabic

Root
ب ل و (b-l-w)

Noun

بَلَاء • (balāʔ) m

  1. verbal noun of بَلَا (balā, “to test, to try; to plague”)
  2. affliction, plague, scourge, bane

Declension

Descendants

  • → Adyghe: бэлахь (bɛlaḥ)
  • → Albanian: bela
  • → Armenian: բալա (bala), պելա (pela)
  • → Azerbaijani: bəla
  • → Bashkir: бәлә (bələ)
  • → Georgian: ბალა (bala)
  • → Persian: بلا (balâ)
  • → Kazakh: бәле (bäle)
  • → Khalaj: bəlâ
  • → Northern Kurdish: bela
  • → Malay: bala
  • → Swahili: balaa
  • → Turkish: bela
  • → Uyghur: بالا (bala)
  • → Uzbek: balo

Noun

بِلَاء • (bilāʔ) m

  1. (obsolete) verbal noun of بَالَى (bālā) (form III)
    • a. 965 CE, Al-Mutanabbi, بِنا مِنكَ فَوقَ الرَملِ ما بِكَ في الرَملِ:
      أَقَلُّ بِلَاءً بِٱلرَّزَايَا مِنَ الْقَنَا
      وَأَقْدَمُ بَيْنَ الْجَحْفَلَيْنِ مِنَ النَّبْلِ
      ʔaqallu bilāʔan bi-r-razāyā mina l-qanā
      wa-ʔaqdamu bayna l-jaḥfalayni mina n-nabli
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.