Masculine
balg
Meaning
- (masculine) leather bag
- (masculine) bellows
- (masculine) fake bait for training birds
- (masculine) cover for moving joints, as in articulated buses
- (dialectal, masculine) belly
- (masculine, obsolete) body
Concepts
Synonyms
blaasbalg
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bɑlx/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch balch, from Old Dutch balg, from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz.
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