峇厘

Chinese

Etymology 1

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (峇厘)		峇	厘
alternative forms		密閭／密闾

The spelling 峇厘, attested in Lim (1886) and Zhou (2006), appears to be a phonetic spelling.

Adele Fielde defines Teochew 舳 (bha⁷) as "bow of a vessel".

Carstairs Douglas and William Campbell identify the Hokkien 閭／闾 (lî) element as "door", while Fielde defines Teochew 閭／闾 (li⁵) as "a habitation".

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bâ-lî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bha⁷ li⁵

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bâ-lî
    • Tâi-lô: bâ-lî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: balii
    • IPA (Taipei): /ba²⁴⁻¹¹ li²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba²³⁻³³ li²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /ba²⁴⁻²² li²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ba¹³⁻²² li¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bha⁷ li⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bā lî
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ba¹¹ li⁵⁵/

Noun

峇厘

1. (Southern Min, nautical) small junk cabin

   • 船主講，我beh提我ê銀chiah來。人勸伊著m̄-thang。伊去bâ-lî提；到倒轉來已經siuⁿ慢。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     船主讲，我beh提我ê银chiah来。人劝伊著m̄-thang。伊去bâ-lî提；到倒转来已经siuⁿ慢。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1909, 梅牧師 Mûi Bo̍k-su, 人ê性命無久長 Lâng ê Sìⁿ-miā bô Kú-tn̂g, in 台南教會報 Tâi-lâm Kàu-hōe-pò, issue 292

     Chûn-chú kóng, góa beh the̍h góa ê gîn chiah lâi. Lâng khǹg i tio̍h m̄-thang. I khì bâ-lî the̍h; kàu tó tńg lâi í-keng siuⁿ bān. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     The boat owner said, "I want to get my money before coming." The people urged him not to, but he still went to the cabin to get it; when he came back, it was already too late.

Derived terms

• 峇厘客
• 峇厘房
• 食公司，睏峇厘／食公司，困峇厘

 

Descendants

• → Malay: bilik
  • Indonesian: bilik
  • → Arabic: بِلِّيج (billīj), بَالِج (bālij), بَلَنْج (balanj) — taṣḥīf, after Hindi पलंग (palaṅg, “bed”)
    • → Judeo-Arabic: כליג (balīj)

References

• William Campbell (1913) “lî (閭 Lû)”, in A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC.
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “bâ”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 8; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 8
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “lî”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 302; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 302
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “密閭”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• Lim Hiong Seng (1886) “Nautical”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press, page 103
• 周长楫 [Zhou, Changji], editor (2006), “峇厘”, in 闽南方言大词典 MINNAN FANGYAN DA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Southern Min dialects] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Fuzhou: 福建人民出版社 [Fujian People's Publishing House], →ISBN, page 46.

Etymology 2

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (峇厘)		峇	厘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bālí

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ㄌㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bālí
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄌㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Balí
    • Wade–Giles: Pa¹-li²
    • Yale: Bā-lí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Bali
    • Palladius: Бали (Bali)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ li³⁵/

Proper noun

峇厘

1. (～島) Alternative form of 巴厘 (Bālí, “Bali”)