bla
Appearance
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]bla
See also
[edit]English
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bla
- Alternative form of blah (“imitative of idle, meaningless talk”)
- 2016, Richard Bean, Up On Roof:
- […] Chair of the Women's Committee, bla bla bla, said she won't vote to let Turkey into the EU until Turkish men improve as lovers, […]
Anagrams
[edit]Australian Kriol
[edit]Preposition
[edit]bla
- Alternative form of blanga
Catalan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bla (feminine blana, masculine plural blans, feminine plural blanes)
- soft
- Synonym: tou
- (figurative) mild, docile
- Synonym: dòcil
- smooth
- Synonym: suau
- (figurative) smooth, gentle
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Franco-Provençal
[edit]Noun
[edit]bla (Old Fribourgeois, Old Lyonnais, Old Dauphinois) (Valdôtain, Dauphinois)
References
[edit]- bllât in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*blād”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 15/1: Germanismes: A–Bryman, page 126
Maltese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic بِلا (bi-lā, literally “with not”). By surface analysis, b’ + le.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]bla
- without (an ingredient, means, concomitant, quality)
- bla ħalib ― without milk
- 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Ir-Riħ u l-Bnazzi”, in Mill-Gallerija ta’ Żgħożiti:
- Ħarbat, mewwet dawk id-dwieli,
wild il-għaraq tal-ħaddiem,
żomm il-fqir ġol-gorboġ waħdu,
u bla ħobż, bla dawl, bla sliem!- Destroy, kill those vines,
the offspring of the worker’s sweat,
keep the poor man in the hovel alone,
without bread, without light, without peace!
- Destroy, kill those vines,
Usage notes
[edit]- Bla negates the preposition b’. It is followed by a noun without any article or determiner. In all other cases, especially for the negation of ma’, the preposition mingħajr is used.
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]bla m (plural blas)
- blah (idle talk)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Swedish
[edit]Adverb
[edit]bla
- Misspelling of bl.a..
Welsh
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bla
- Soft mutation of pla.
Mutation
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