Noun: bala
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | bala |
| Plural f | balas |
Sample Sentences
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Kenji Narukami: Ih, eu não tenho mais balas...
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Jushiro Fudo: Não é bala que se fala, é munição! (Kenji Narukami: Uh-oh, I've run out of bullets...
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Jushiro Fudo: Don't say bullet, it's ammunition!) [2009 April 15, “Corra! Rei das Feras!” (02:20 from the start), in Ryukendo, episode 3, São Paulo: Centauro, via RedeTV!; dubbing of “走れ!百獣の王”, in 魔弾戦記リュウケンドー, 22 January 2006:]
Nouns inflected like bala
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French balle, from Middle French balle from Northern Italian balla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla, *balla (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). See: French Nouns '
balle', Italian Nouns '
balla'.
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