Masculine

balg

Meaning

  1. (masculine) leather bag
  2. (masculine) bellows
  3. (masculine) fake bait for training birds
  4. (masculine) cover for moving joints, as in articulated buses
  5. (dialectal, masculine) belly
  6. (masculine, obsolete) body

Concepts

Synonyms

blaasbalg

Pronounced as (IPA)
/bɑlx/
Etymology

In summary

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

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