balok
See also: bálok
Cebuano
Alternative forms
- bawok
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ba‧lok
Noun
balok
- the red-brown hairlike structure found in the underside of coconut palm fronds
Indonesian
Etymology
From Javanese ꦧꦭꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (balok), from Dutch balk. Doublet of balak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.lok/, [ˈba.lɔʔ]
- Hyphenation: ba‧lok
Noun
balok (plural balok-balok, first-person possessive balokku, second-person possessive balokmu, third-person possessive baloknya)
- block: a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (forestry) log: the trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches; any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
- (geometry) cuboid: a parallelepiped having six rectangular faces.
- board:
- (nautical) the side of a ship.
- (sports) takeoff board of long jump.
- beam:
- any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- (sports) balance beam: a gymnastics apparatus, a narrow wooden rail used in artistic (athletic) gymnastics.
- (military, colloquial) epaulet, epaulette, shoulder board: an ornamentation, worn on the shoulders of a military uniform, as a sign of rank.
- Synonym: epolet
- the unit of measurement for opium weight of 1,030 kg
Alternative forms
- balak
- balak (Standard Malay)
Derived terms
- pembalokan
- balok genjang
- balok keseimbangan
- balok not
- balok siku
- balok tuangan
Further reading
- “balok” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
Noun
balok
- Alternative form of ballok
Sambali
Noun
balok
- (anatomy) gall bladder
Toba Batak
Etymology
From Proto-Batak *baləg, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baləj.
Noun
balok
- boundary, border
References
- J. Warneck (1906) Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch, Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, page 22