বল্লাল
Appearance
Old Bengali
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from a Dravidian source (compare Kannada ಬಲ್ಲಾಲ್ (ballāl)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]বল্লাল (ballāla)
- a male given name from Dravidian, held by Ballāla Sena (বল্লাল সেন), an early medieval king of Bengal
Further reading
[edit]- Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[1], volume vi, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.