bla

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

Translingual

Symbol

bla

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

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Blackfoot terms

English

Interjection

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, […]

Anagrams

• Lab, BAL, Alb., alb, LAB, Lab., lab, abl.

Australian Kriol

Preposition

bla

1. Alternative form of blanga

Catalan

Alternative forms

• blan (Balearic)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin blandus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbla]

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• ablanir
• blanejar
• blanenc
• blanesa
• blanet
• blanor
• ou blan

 

Related terms

• blandícia
• Blanes

Further reading

• “bla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Franco-Provençal

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of blât (“wheat”)

References

• 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Preposition

bla

1. 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!

Usage notes

• 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

Noun

bla m (plural blas)

1. blah (idle talk)

Derived terms

• blablablá, bla bla bla, bla-bla-bla
• blablá, bla bla, bla-bla

Further reading

• “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

Adverb

bla

1. Misspelling of bl.a..

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blaː/

Noun

bla

1. Soft mutation of pla.

Mutation

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.