"balach" meaning in All languages combined

See balach on Wiktionary

Noun [Scottish Gaelic]

IPA: /ˈb̥al̪ˠəx/, [ˈb̥ɑl̪ˠəx], /ˈb̥alˠəx/ (note: Harris), /ˈb̥a.l̪ˠəx/ [ˈb̥ɑˀl̪ˠəx] (note: South Argyll)
Etymology: From Middle Irish bachlach (“clown, churl”). Cognate with Rathlin Irish bachlach. Etymology templates: {{inh|gd|mga|bachlach||clown, churl}} Middle Irish bachlach (“clown, churl”) Head templates: {{head|gd|noun|||||||genitive singular|balaich|||||||||plural|balaich||||||{{{pl4}}}|||cat2=|f10accel-form=p|f11accel-form=genpl|f1accel-form=dat|s|f2accel-form=dat|s|f3accel-form=dat|s|f4accel-form=gen|s|f5accel-form=gen|s|f6accel-form=gen|s|f7accel-form=gen|s|f8accel-form=p|f9accel-form=p|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} balach m (genitive singular balaich, plural balaich), {{gd-noun|g=m|gen=balaich|pl=balaich}} balach m (genitive singular balaich, plural balaich) Forms: balaich [genitive, singular], balaich [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], balach [indefinite, nominative, singular], balaich [indefinite, nominative, plural], balaich [genitive, indefinite, singular], bhalach [genitive, indefinite, plural], balach [dative, indefinite, singular], balaich [dative, indefinite, plural], balachaibh [dative, indefinite, plural], balach [definite, nominative, singular], am balach [definite, nominative, singular], balaich [definite, nominative, plural], na balaich [definite, nominative, plural], (a') bhalaich [definite, genitive, singular], balach [definite, genitive, plural], nam balach [definite, genitive, plural], (a') bhalach [dative, definite, singular], balaich [dative, definite, plural], na balaich [dative, definite, plural], balachaibh [dative, definite, plural], bhalaich [definite, singular, vocative], bhalacha [definite, plural, vocative], bhalachaibh [definite, plural, vocative]
  1. boy, lad Tags: masculine Synonyms (boy): gille Hyponyms (boy): hyponyms under gille
    Sense id: en-balach-gd-noun-5GNh4AeY Categories (other): Male people Disambiguation of Male people: 90 10 Disambiguation of 'boy': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'boy': 100 0
  2. (card games) jack Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-balach-gd-noun-MWERWefm Categories (other): Card games, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 96 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 97 Disambiguation of Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Topics: card-games, games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: balachail, balachan, balachan-sgoile

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "balachail"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "balachan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    }
  ],
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        "4": "",
        "5": "clown, churl"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish bachlach (“clown, churl”). Cognate with Rathlin Irish bachlach.",
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    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "I masculine noun",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhalach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balachaibh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "am balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(a') bhalaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nam balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(a') bhalach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balachaibh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhalaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhalacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhalachaibh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
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        "12": "",
        "13": "",
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        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
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        "lach"
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  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "noun",
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        }
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        "boy, lad"
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          "lad",
          "lad"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "boy",
          "word": "gille"
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      ]
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Card games",
          "orig": "gd:Card games",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "jack"
      ],
      "id": "en-balach-gd-noun-MWERWefm",
      "links": [
        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ],
        [
          "jack",
          "jack"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(card games) jack"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈb̥al̪ˠəx/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈb̥ɑl̪ˠəx]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈb̥alˠəx/",
      "note": "Harris"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈb̥a.l̪ˠəx/ [ˈb̥ɑˀl̪ˠəx]",
      "note": "South Argyll"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rathlin Island#Irish language"
  ],
  "word": "balach"
}

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    "Pages with entries",
    "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Scottish Gaelic first-declension nouns",
    "Scottish Gaelic lemmas",
    "Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns",
    "Scottish Gaelic nouns",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Middle Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Middle Irish",
    "gd-noun 2",
    "gd:Male people"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "balachail"
    },
    {
      "word": "balachan"
    },
    {
      "word": "balachan-sgoile"
    }
  ],
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        "3": "bachlach",
        "4": "",
        "5": "clown, churl"
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      "name": "inh"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish bachlach (“clown, churl”). Cognate with Rathlin Irish bachlach.",
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    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "I masculine noun",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balachaibh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "am balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na balaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(a') bhalaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nam balach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(a') bhalach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balachaibh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhalaich",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhalachaibh",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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          "boy",
          "boy"
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          "lad",
          "lad"
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        "masculine"
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        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ],
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          "jack",
          "jack"
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        "(card games) jack"
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        "masculine"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈb̥al̪ˠəx/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈb̥ɑl̪ˠəx]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈb̥alˠəx/",
      "note": "Harris"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈb̥a.l̪ˠəx/ [ˈb̥ɑˀl̪ˠəx]",
      "note": "South Argyll"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "sense": "boy",
      "word": "gille"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rathlin Island#Irish language"
  ],
  "word": "balach"
}

Download raw JSONL data for balach meaning in All languages combined (4.6kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.