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bla

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See also: BLA, bl a, bl.a., blá, blä, and blå

Translingual

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Symbol

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bla

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Blackfoot.

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English

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Interjection

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bla

  1. 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, []

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Australian Kriol

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Preposition

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bla

  1. Alternative form of blanga

Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin blandus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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bla (feminine blana, masculine plural blans, feminine plural blanes)

  1. soft
    Synonym: tou
  2. (figurative) mild, docile
    Synonym: dòcil
  3. smooth
    Synonym: suau
  4. (figurative) smooth, gentle
    Synonyms: suau, dolç, benigne

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Franco-Provençal

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Noun

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bla (Old Fribourgeois, Old Lyonnais, Old Dauphinois) (Valdôtain, Dauphinois)

  1. Alternative form of blât (wheat)

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Maltese

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Etymology

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From Arabic بِلا (bi-lā, literally with not). By surface analysis, b’ +‎ le.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /blaː/
  • Usually unstressed and then automatically shortened to /bla/.

Preposition

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bla

  1. without (an ingredient, means, concomitant, quality)
    bla ħalibwithout 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!

Usage notes

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  • 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

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Noun

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bla m (plural blas)

  1. blah (idle talk)

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Swedish

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Adverb

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bla

  1. Misspelling of bl.a..

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bla

  1. Soft mutation of pla.

Mutation

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Mutated forms of pla
radical soft nasal aspirate
pla bla mhla phla

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.