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Definition: Balas |
BalasNoun1. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "balas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | A ruby spinel of a pale rose-red or orange. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:balas ruby. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BalasSynonym: balas ruby (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: balas ruby (chemistry, mining). |
Crosswords: Balas |
| English words defined with "balas": balas ruby. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Balas" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Indonesian (response). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dios sufre por ti pero no recibe las balas (1973) Sete Balas para Selma (1967) Um Diamante e Cinco Balas (1966) Tres balas perdidas (1961) 800 balas (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Balas" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Balas" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "balas" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Balas | Last name | 1,000 | 15,930 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "balas": balas ruby. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
balas | 31 |
balas expansivas | 6 |
egon balas | 4 |
balas de embalagens fabricantes para | 4 |
balas de plata priscilla sus y | 4 |
balas colete de prova | 3 |
balas de plata prisila sus y | 3 |
800 balas | 3 |
balas calorias das | 3 |
balas coletes de prova à | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "balas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | alasbay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Numbers Chapter 23, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai enebalen o qeoV rhma eiV to stoma balaam kai eipen epistrafeiV proV balak outwV lalhseiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dominus autem posuit verbum in ore eius et ait revertere ad Balac et haec loqueris |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The Lord forsothe putte the word in the mouth of hym, and seith, Turn ayen to Balac, and thes thingis thow shalt speke. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And ye Lorde put a sayenge in Balas mouth and sayed: goo agayne to Balac and saye on this wyse. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Numbers Chapter 23, Verse 5 |
| Bulgarian | И "оспод тури дума в устата на 'алаама, и рече: 'ърни се при 'алака и според тоя дума говори. |
| Cebuano | Ug si Jehova nagbutang ug pulong diha sa baba ni Balaam, ug miingon: Bumalik ka ngadto kang Balac, ug mao kini ang igasulti mo. |
| Chinese | 耶 ' 華 將 話 傳 給 巴 蘭 、 又 說 、 回 到 巴 ' 那 裡 、 要 如 此 如 此 說 。 |
| Croatian | A Jahve stavi rijeèi u usta Bileamu te mu zapovjedi: "Vrati se Balaku i ovako govori." |
| Danish | Og Gud lagde Bileam Ord i Munden og sagde: "Vend tilbage til Balak og tal således til ham!" |
| Dutch | Toen leide de HEERE het woord in den mond van Bileam, en zeide: Keer weder tot Balak, en spreek aldus. |
| Finnish | Ja Herra pani sanat Bileamin suuhun ja sanoi: "Palaja Baalakin luo ja puhu hänelle näin". |
| French | L`Éternel mit des paroles dans la bouche de Balaam, et dit: Retourne vers Balak, et tu parleras ainsi. |
| German | Der HERR aber gab das Wort dem Bileam in den Mund und sprach: Gehe wieder zu Balak und rede also. |
| Haitian Creole | Seyè a pale ak Balaram byen pale. Apre sa, li di l': -Tounen bò kote Balak. W'a pale avè l' jan mwen di ou la. |
| Hungarian | Az Úr pedig ígét ada Bálámnak szájába, és monda néki: Térj vissza Bálákhoz, és így szólj. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu TUHAN memberitahukan kepada Bileam apa yang harus dikatakannya, dan menyuruh dia kembali kepada Balak untuk menyampaikan pesan TUHAN kepadanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dibubuh Tuhan firman-Nya pada lidah Bileam sambil kata-Nya: Kembalilah engkau kepada Balak, maka di sanalah engkau akan berkata-kata kelak. |
| Italian | Allora il Signore mise le parole in bocca a Balaam e gli disse: «Torna da Balak e parla così». |
| Korean | 여 호 와 께 서 발 람 의 입 에 말 " 을 주 어 가 라 사 대 발 락 에 게 돌 아 가 서 이 게 말 지 어 다 |
| Maori | Na ka homai e Ihowa he kupu ki te waha o Paraama, ka mea, Hoki atu ki a Paraka, a kia penei tau ki atu. |
| Modern Greek | Και εβαλεν ο Κυριος λογον εις το στομα του 'αλααμ και ειπεν, Επιστρεψον προς τον 'αλακ, και ουτω θελεις ειπει. |
| Norwegian | Da la Herren et ord i Bileams munn og sa: Vend tilbake til Balak og tal som jeg har sagt dig! |
| Portuguese | Então o senhor pôs uma palavra na boca de Balaão, e disse: Volta para Balaque, e assim falarás. |
| Rumanian | Domnul a pus cuvinte kn gura lui Balaam, wi a zis: ,,Kntoarce-te la Balac, wi awa sq -i vorbewti.`` |
| Russian | й ЧМПЦЙМ зПУ П"Ш УМПЧП Ч ХУФБ чБМББНПЧЩ Й УЛБЪБМ: ЧПЪЧТБФЙУШ Л чБМБЛХ Й ФБЛ ЗПЧПТЙ. |
| Spanish | Entonces Jehovah puso palabra en la boca de Balaam y le dijo: --Vuelve a donde está Balac, y háblale así... |
| Swedish | Och HERREN lade i Bileams mun vad han skulle tala; han sade: "Gå tillbaka till Balak och tala så och så." |
| Thai | พระเยโฮวาห์ทรงใส่ถ้อยคำในปากของบาลาอัมและตรัสว่า "จงกลับไปหาบาลาคแล้วจงพู"อย่างนั้น" |
| Ukrainian | І вклав "осподь слово до 'алаамових уст та й сказав: 'ернись до Балака, і будеш так промовляти. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "balas": balases. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "balas": cabalas, cabbalas, falbalas, kabalas, kabbalas, tambalas. (additional references) | |
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"Balas" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abljs, baabaas, baals, baaz, babas, badass, bagas, bakas, bala, balac, balach, balad, Balah, balai, balak, balam, balan, balans, Balao, Balashov, Balasoiu, balast, Balasz, Balfa, balic, balis, balla, ballan, Balraj, bals, balsac, Balsai, baluns, Barlas, Belasco, Bellas, Bielsa, bilis, Birlas, Bjallas, blaaa, blais, blas, Blayais, bulaz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "balas" (pronounced ba"lus) |
| 4 | -a" l u s | callous, callus, digitalis, Gallus, malice, palace, prothallus. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: albas, baals, balsa, basal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-s" | |
-1 letter: aals, abas, alas, alba, albs, baal, baas, bals, labs, slab. | |
-2 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, ala, alb, als, baa, bal, bas, lab, las, sab, sal. | |
-3 letters: aa, ab, al, as, ba, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-l-s" | |
+1 letter: balsam, balsas, basalt, cabals, tablas. | |
+2 letters: abelias, ablates, ablauts, abulias, abysmal, abyssal, albatas, arables, atabals, baalism, balases, balatas, balboas, ballads, ballast, balsams, basally, basalts, basilar, basinal, bharals, cabalas, kabalas, labials, lambast, lambdas, lavabos, salable, salably, savable, sayable, subalar. | |
+3 letters: abalones, abasedly, abettals, abigails, abomasal, aboulias, abusable, abuttals, albizias, algebras, allobars, amusable, anableps, arbalest, arbalist, baalisms, bacalaos, backlash, backslap, badlands, bailsman, baklavas, baklawas, balances, balisaur, ballades, ballasts, ballista, balsamed, balsamic, barillas, basaltes, basaltic, baseball, basidial, basilary, basilica, berascal, blastema, blastoma, blastula, bradawls, cabalism, cabalist, cabbalas, calabash, cascabel, cascable, cashable, castable, causable, eatables, erasable, falbalas, fastball, fleabags, galabias, jellabas, kabbalas, kalimbas, kielbasa, labarums, labiates, labrusca, lambaste, lambasts, lapsable, lavaboes, leasable, mailbags, maskable, palabras, parables, parsable, passable, passably, payables, prebasal, raisable, sailable, sailboat, saleable, saleably, salvable, salvably, satiable, satiably, saveable, scabland, scalable, scalably, sealable, shakable, shamable, shapable, sharable, shavable, slakable, sparable, statable, subaxial, subnasal, swayable, tableaus, tambalas, tastable, taxables, washable, wastable. | |
+4 letters: ablations, ablatives, ablegates, abnormals, abysmally, advisable, advisably, alabaster, albacores, albatross, albizzias, algarobas, alphabets, ambrosial, ambulates, anabolism, arbalests, arbalists, assumable, assumably, astrolabe, backhauls, backlands, backslaps, backslash, backtalks, balancers, baldheads, baldpates, balisaurs, balladist, ballasted, ballgames, ballhawks, ballistae, ballparks, ballyrags, balmorals, balsaming, banalizes, bangtails, baptismal, barbitals, barnacles, baseballs, basically, basilicae, basilican, basilicas, basipetal, bastardly, battalias, beanballs, beanstalk, berascals, betrayals, bicoastal, bilabials, blackcaps, blastemal, blastemas, blastomas, blastulae, blastulas, boatloads, brachials, braciolas, brantails, cabalisms, cabalists, cabbalahs, cableways, cabrillas, calaboose, callbacks, cannibals, capablest, carbamyls, carbaryls, cascabels, cascables, clambakes, claybanks, djellabas, fahlbands, fallbacks, faltboats, fastballs, flambeaus, flashback, flatboats, fleabanes, galabiehs, galabiyas, galbanums, graspable, habdalahs, hairballs, halfbacks, halfbeaks, handballs, hardballs, isallobar, kabbalahs, kielbasas, labdanums, labradors, lambasted, lambastes, landgrabs, lapboards, larboards, layabouts, leaseback, meatballs, palpebras, parabolas, playbacks, resalable, sabadilla, saddlebag, sailboard, sailboats, sandblast, saturable, scablands, scannable, separable, shakeable, shapeable, shareable, sleazebag, spallable, sparables, spareable, speakable, stableman, stackable, stageable, stainable, stateable, stealable, subaerial, subapical, subvassal, syllabary, tabulates, tailbacks, trapballs, unsalable, unsayable, valuables, variables, wallabies, washables, wearables. | |
+5 letters: abrasively, absorbable, abstractly, adjustable, adsorbable, adverbials, alabasters, algarrobas, algebraist, ambisexual, amblyopias, ambulances, ameloblast, anablepses, anabolisms, answerable, appeasable, ascendable, ascribable, assailable, assemblage, assessable, assignable, astrolabes, bacchanals, backlashed, backlasher, backlashes, backpedals, backsplash, bafflegabs, bagatelles, balaclavas, balalaikas, baldachins, balderdash, balkanizes, balladeers, balladists, balladries, ballasting, ballerinas, balmacaans, balustrade, banalities, barcaroles, barrelages, basketball, basophilia, battailous, battalions, beanstalks, berascaled, bilharzias, blackballs, blackfaces, blackheads, blackjacks, blacklands, blackleads, blackmails, blacksnake, blacktails, blastemata, blastomata, blatancies, boardwalks, botanicals, breakables, broadscale, broadtails, cabalettas, cabalistic, caballeros, cablegrams, calabashes, calabooses, calibrates, camelbacks, carambolas, carbachols, carbazoles, catabolism, clapboards, cobalamins, djellabahs, elaborates, encashable, fastballer, flammables, flashbacks, flashboard, garibaldis, greaseball, handlebars, hypabyssal, imbalances, impassable, impassably, insatiable, insatiably, isallobars, isolatable, jailbreaks, jambalayas, labializes, lambasting, lamebrains, lampblacks, leasebacks, librarians, measurable, measurably, metastable, metastably, misbalance, mistakable, myrobalans, nonsalable, reasonable, reasonably, rebalances, releasable, resealable, sabadillas, sabbatical, saddlebags, sailboards, sailboater, salability, sandblasts, searchable, seasonable, seasonably, sleazebags, sleazeball, spreadable, stablemate, statoblast, statutable, subclavian, subglacial, submaximal, subvassals, tablatures, tablelands, tablemates, tablewares, tabulators, tailboards, trabeculas, trackballs, twayblades, ultrabasic, unbalances, unpassable, unscalable, unshakable, unshakably, unslakable, walkabouts, wallboards, watchables, whalebacks, whaleboats. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 61 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. .- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 0061 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667786785 |
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