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Borrowed from Marathi भले (bhale).
ബലേ • (balē)
- well done
- very nice, nice
- Godavarma, K. (1946) “ബലേ”, in Indo-Aryan loanwords in Malayalam, Thiruvanathapuram: Head of department of Malayalam, page 16
- Kailash Nath (2019) “ബലേ”, in “Olam” Kailash Nath's Malayalam → English dictionary