bald

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• Northern-England, Received-Pronunciation, Wales: /bɔːld/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /boːld/
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• UK, nonstandard: /bəʊld/
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• UK, nonstandard: [bɒʊld]
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• UK, nonstandard: [bɒld]
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• Northumbria: /bɑːld/
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• Scotland: /bɔld/
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• /bɔld/ without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /bɑld/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /boːld/
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• rhymes with -ɔːld
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• homophone: balled
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• homophone: bawled
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• homophone: (nonstandard) bold
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• CMU ARPABET: B AO1 L D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal? Proto-Indo-European *bhel- Proto-Indo-European *bhḗlH-o-m Proto-Germanic *bēlą Proto-West Germanic *bāl Old English bæl? Middle English balled English bald From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare Old Danish bældet (“bald”). An alternate etymology relates it to Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *bēlą. Compare Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ballë (“forehead”).

* As a Dutch and German surname, from the personal name Baldo, or related to Baldwin, where the first element is from the root of bold. * As an English and Scottish surname, related to bald.

216 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bles — having little or no hair
• Dupaningan Agta: polpog — having little or no hair
• Albanian: tullac — having little or no hair
• Southern Altai: тас (tas) — having little or no hair
• Arabic: أَقْرَع (ʔaqraʕ) — having little or no hair
• Arabic: أَصْلَع (ʔaṣlaʕ) — having little or no hair
• Arabic: أَجْرَد (ʔajrad) — having little or no hair
• Arabic: أقرع (aʔraʕ) — having little or no hair
• Arabic: قرع (qraʕ) — having little or no hair
• Armenian: քաչալ (kʻačʻal) — having little or no hair
• Armenian: ճաղատ (čaġat) — having little or no hair
• Asturian: calvu — having little or no hair
• Azerbaijani: keçəl — having little or no hair
• Azerbaijani: daz — having little or no hair
• Basque: soil — having little or no hair
• Basque: burusoil — having little or no hair
• Belarusian: лы́сы (lýsy) — having little or no hair
• Belarusian: пляшы́вы (pljašývy) — having little or no hair
• Bengali: টাক মাথা (ṭak matha) — having little or no hair
• Bengali: টেকো (ṭekō) — having little or no hair
• Bengali: টাকলু (ṭakolu) — having little or no hair
• Central Bikol: angas — having little or no hair
• Breton: moal — having little or no hair
• Bulgarian: плеши́в (plešív) — having little or no hair
• Bulgarian: лис (lis) — having little or no hair
• Catalan: calb — having little or no hair
• Cebuano: upaw — having little or no hair
• Cebuano: upawon — having little or no hair
• Chinese Mandarin: 禿頭的 /秃头的 (tūtóu de) — having little or no hair
• Chinese Mandarin: 光禿禿的 /光秃秃的 (guāngtūtū de) — having little or no hair
• Cornish: blogh — having little or no hair
• Crimean Tatar: tazbaş — having little or no hair
• Czech: plešatý — having little or no hair
• Danish: skaldet — having little or no hair
• Dutch: kaal — having little or no hair
• Erzya: чертеме (čerteme) — having little or no hair
• Erzya: кепепря (kepepŕa) — having little or no hair
• Esperanto: kalva — having little or no hair
• Esperanto: senhara — having little or no hair
• Estonian: kiilas — having little or no hair
• Farefare: kõogɔ — having little or no hair
• Faroese: skallutur — having little or no hair
• Finnish: kalju — having little or no hair
• French: chauve — having little or no hair
• West-Frisian: keal — having little or no hair
• Galician: careco — having little or no hair
• Galician: cañón — having little or no hair
• Galician: mouquelo — having little or no hair
• Galician: cachapelada — having little or no hair
• Galician: crouco — having little or no hair
• Galician: crouquelo — having little or no hair
• Galician: calvo — having little or no hair
• Georgian: მელოტი (meloṭi) — having little or no hair
• Georgian: ქოსა (kosa) — having little or no hair
• German: kahl — having little or no hair
• German: glatzköpfig — having little or no hair
• Greek: φαλακρός (falakrós) — having little or no hair
• Greek: καραφλός (karaflós) — having little or no hair
• Ancient Greek: φαλακρός (phalakrós) — having little or no hair
• Hebrew: קירח \ קֵרֵחַ (keréakh) — having little or no hair
• Hindi: गंजा (gañjā) — having little or no hair
• Hungarian: kopasz — having little or no hair
• Hungarian: tar — having little or no hair
• Icelandic: sköllóttur — having little or no hair
• Ido: kalva — having little or no hair
• Ido: senhara — having little or no hair
• Indonesian: botak — having little or no hair
• Irish: maol — having little or no hair
• Old Irish: máel — having little or no hair
• Italian: calvo — having little or no hair
• Italian: pelato — having little or no hair
• Japanese: 禿げ (hage) — having little or no hair
• Javanese: buthak — having little or no hair
• Old Javanese: buṭak — having little or no hair
• Kazakh: жалтыр (jaltyr) — having little or no hair
• Kazakh: қасқа (qasqa) — having little or no hair
• Kazakh: таз (taz) — having little or no hair
• Khmer: តម្ពែក (tɑɑtɑmpɛɛk) — having little or no hair
• Khmer: ត្រងាល (trɑɑngaal) — having little or no hair
• Korean: 대머리의 (daemeoriui) — having little or no hair
• Central Kurdish: کەچەڵ (keçell) — having little or no hair
• Kyrgyz: кашка (kaşka) — having little or no hair
• Kyrgyz: таз (taz) — having little or no hair
• Ladin: las — having little or no hair
• Lao: ລ້ານ (lān) — having little or no hair
• Lao: ໂລ້ນ (lōn) — having little or no hair
• Latin: calvus — having little or no hair
• Latvian: plikgalvains — having little or no hair
• Lithuanian: plikas — having little or no hair
• Luhya: sipara — having little or no hair
• Macedonian: ќелав (ḱelav) — having little or no hair
• Malay: botak — having little or no hair
• Malayalam: കഷണ്ടി (kaṣaṇṭi) — having little or no hair
• Manchu: ᡥᠣᡨᠣ (hoto) — having little or no hair
• Manx: meayl — having little or no hair
• Māori: pākira — having little or no hair
• Māori: porohewa — having little or no hair
• Māori: hewa — having little or no hair
• Meru: kimencu — having little or no hair
• Middle English: calwe — having little or no hair
• Middle English: balled — having little or no hair
• Mongolian: халзан (xalzan) — having little or no hair
• Navajo: dilkǫǫh — having little or no hair
• Neapolitan: scucciato — having little or no hair
• Neapolitan: zelluso — having little or no hair
• Norwegian Bokmål: skalla — having little or no hair
• Norwegian Bokmål: skallet — having little or no hair
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skalla — having little or no hair
• Occitan: calvet — having little or no hair
• Church Slavic: възлꙑсъ (vŭzlysŭ) — having little or no hair
• Old English: calu — having little or no hair
• Old English: hnot — having little or no hair
• Persian: طاس (tâs) — having little or no hair
• Persian: کچل (kačal) — having little or no hair
• Persian: کل (kal) — having little or no hair
• Polish: łysy — having little or no hair
• Portuguese: calvo — having little or no hair
• Portuguese: careca — having little or no hair
• Quechua: pagla — having little or no hair
• Romanian: chel — having little or no hair
• Romanian: pleșuv — having little or no hair
• Russian: лы́сый (lýsyj) — having little or no hair
• Russian: плеши́вый (plešívyj) — having little or no hair
• Sanskrit: कुल्व (kulva) — having little or no hair
• Sanskrit: खार्वाटक (khārvāṭaka) — having little or no hair
• Sanskrit: ऋक्ष (ṛkṣa) — having little or no hair
• Sasak: butak — having little or no hair
• Scottish Gaelic: maol — having little or no hair
• Serbo-Croatian: ће̏лав — having little or no hair
• Serbo-Croatian: ćȅlav — having little or no hair
• Shor: тас (tas) — having little or no hair
• Sicilian: tignusu — having little or no hair
• Sicilian: pilatu — having little or no hair
• Slovak: plešatý — having little or no hair
• Slovene: plešast — having little or no hair
• Lower Sorbian: goły — having little or no hair
• Upper Sorbian: plěchaty — having little or no hair
• Spanish: calvo — having little or no hair
• Spanish: pelón — having little or no hair
• Spanish: pelado — having little or no hair
• Spanish: pajla — having little or no hair
• Spanish: calvorota — having little or no hair
• Sudovian: plikas — having little or no hair
• Sundanese: butak — having little or no hair
• Swedish: flintskallig — having little or no hair
• Swedish: skallig — having little or no hair
• Tagalog: kalbo — having little or no hair
• Tagalog: upaw — having little or no hair
• Tagalog: kutipyo — having little or no hair
• Tajik: тос (tos) — having little or no hair
• Tamil: சொட்டை (coṭṭai) — having little or no hair
• Telugu: బట్టతల (baṭṭatala) — having little or no hair
• Thai: ล้าน (láan) — having little or no hair
• Thai: โล้น (lóon) — having little or no hair
• Turkish: kel — having little or no hair
• Turkish: dazlak — having little or no hair
• Ottoman Turkish: طازلاق (dazlak) — having little or no hair
• Ottoman Turkish: كل (kel) — having little or no hair
• Ottoman Turkish: صاچسز (saçsız) — having little or no hair
• Ottoman Turkish: قباق (kabak) — having little or no hair
• Turkmen: sakar — having little or no hair
• Udi: каьчаьл (käčäl) — having little or no hair
• Ukrainian: ли́сий (lýsyj) — having little or no hair
• Ukrainian: пліши́вий (plišývyj) — having little or no hair
• Urdu: گنجا (gañjā) — having little or no hair
• Uyghur: يالىئڭاچ (yali'ngach) — having little or no hair
• Uzbek: kal — having little or no hair
• Uzbek: toz — having little or no hair
• Uzbek: siyqa — having little or no hair
• Vietnamese: trọc — having little or no hair
• Vietnamese: hói — having little or no hair
• Walloon: tchenou — having little or no hair
• Walloon: pelot — having little or no hair
• Walloon: pelake — having little or no hair
• Walloon: pelé — having little or no hair
• Welsh: moel — having little or no hair
• Woiwurrung: taweet — having little or no hair
• Yakan: tukung — having little or no hair
• Yiddish: פּליכעוואַטע (plikhevate) — having little or no hair
• Yiddish: ליסע (lise) — having little or no hair
• Yucatec Maya: k'olis — having little or no hair
• Galician: albo — of an animal, white areas
• Galician: albelo — of an animal, white areas
• Bulgarian: износен (iznosen) — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Czech: ojetý — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Czech: sjetý — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Danish: nedslidt — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Dutch: kaal — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Dutch: afgesleten — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Farefare: kɔbkõogɔ — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Finnish: kalju — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Finnish: sileä — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• French: lisse — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Galician: nedio — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Galician: lampo — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Galician: liso — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Galician: lambido — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Italian: liscio — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Latvian: nodilis — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Macedonian: изли́жана (izlížana) — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Māori: hore — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Navajo: dilkǫǫh — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Portuguese: careca — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Russian: лы́сый (lýsyj) — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Sicilian: lisciu — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Sicilian: cunzumatu — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Swedish: blanksliten — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Telugu: గుండు (guṇḍu) — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Thai: โกร๋น (grǒon) — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Turkish: kabak — of a tyre, whose surface is worn away
• Bengali: টাক পড়া (ṭak poṛa) — to lose hair
• Finnish: kaljuuntua — to lose hair
• Latin: calvescō — to lose hair
• Maltese: qriegħ — to lose hair
• Polish: łysieć — to lose hair
• Welsh: moeli — to lose hair