balg

See also: Balg

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch balch, from Old Dutch balg, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑlx/
Rhymes: -ɑlx
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Noun

balg m (plural balgen, diminutive balgje n)

leather bag
bellows
(falconry) fake bait for training birds
cover for moving joints, as in articulated buses
(dialectal) belly

Derived terms

(bellows): blaasbalg (bellows)
(cover): vouwbalg
(belly): balgpijn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bolg m (“bag, satchel; sack; belly, stomach; (smith's) bellows”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).

Noun

balg m (genitive singular builg, plural builg)

Synonyms

(belly): brù

Derived terms

Terms derived from balg

balg-abhrais m (“wool-bag; batch of wool”)
balgaich (“belly out, as a sail; stow in a bag or satchel; puff, blister, swell”)
balg-béice m (“fuzzball, sponge mushroom”)
balg-bhonn m (“pneumatic tyre of a cycle”)
balg-buachrach m (“mushroom”)
balg-chasach (“bow-legged, bandy-legged”)

balg-dhubh (“cloudy, dark, gloomy”)
balg-dubh m (“large fuzzball”)
balg-iongrach m (“abscess”)
balg-meadhain m (“waist, belly”)
balg-péiteach m, balg-smùid m (“puffball”)

balg-séididh m (“pair of bellows; puffball”)
balg-shaighde m (“quiver”)
balg-shùil f (“large prominent eye”)
balg-solair m (“magazine”)
balg-thional m (“wallet”)

References

“1 bolg” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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