balsa

Borrowed from Spanish balsa, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably Basque [Term?] or Iberian [Term?]. Not related to balsam.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːl.sə/, /ˈbæl.sə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlsə/

balsa (countable and uncountable, plural balsas)

1. A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight.
2. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
3. A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

• → Irish: balsa

• balsa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• balsa tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Ba'als, Baals, Baʿals, LABAs, albas, baals, balas, basal, blaas, laabs, sabal

• IPA^(key): /balˈsa/, [bʌlˈsʌ]
• Hyphenation: bal‧sa

balsá f 

1. reputation

From Spanish balsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlsɑ/, [ˈbɑ̝ls̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlsɑ
• Syllabification^(key): bal‧sa

balsa

1. balsa (wood)

• “balsa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

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balsa m (plural balsas)

1. balsa (tree, wood)

• “balsa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Attested since circa 1300. From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbalsɐ]

balsa f (plural balsas)

1. raft; also raft-like group of trunks which are left to flow downriver
2. dam
3. balsa (tree)
4. balsa (wood)

• “balsa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “balsa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “balsa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “balsa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “balsa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from English balsa, from Spanish balsa.

balsa m (genitive singular balsa)

1. balsa (tree, wood)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “balsa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Samic *pëlsë (whence also Inari Sami polssâ), of unknown further origin. Probably ultimately from a substrate.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpalːsa/

balsa

1. palsa, mound, tussock

• → Finnish: palsa
  • → English: palsa
• Swedish: pals
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pals

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Borrowed from Spanish balsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal.sa/

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• Rhymes: -alsa
• Syllabification: bal‧sa

balsa f (related adjective balsowy)

1. balsa (Ochroma pyramidale)
2. balsa (wood of this tree)

• balsa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• balsa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Spanish balsa.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -alsɐ, (Brazil) -awsɐ
• Hyphenation: bal‧sa

balsa f (plural balsas)

1. raft
2. ferry

   Synonym: ferryboat

Borrowed from French balsa.

balsa m (uncountable)

1. balsa

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably Basque [Term?] or Iberian [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalsa/ [ˈbal.sa]
• Rhymes: -alsa
• Syllabification: bal‧sa

balsa f (plural balsas)

1. puddle, pool, pond

   Synonym: charco

2. raft
3. ferry
4. balsa (tree)

• → English: balsa
  • → Irish: balsa
• → Portuguese: balsa
• → Tagalog: balsa

• “balsa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish balsa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /balˈsa/ [bɐlˈsa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: bal‧sa

balsá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎ᜔ᜐ)

1. raft

balsa

1. raft