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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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¹ball‑/ balal‑ بَلّ / بَلَلْـ , u (ball)
 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BLː(BLL) 
vb., I 
to moisten, wet, make wet – WehrCowan1976.
 
▪ The grouping in DRS suggests that ¹balla belongs to a group of lexemes that are based on the idea of *‘mixing’. If this is correct, ‘to moisten, make wet’ is originally *‘to mix with water’.
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▪ Hava1899: †ballala (D-stem) ‘to wet, drench, moisten’, †ʔaballa (*Š-stem) ‘to be sappy (tree)’; †bullaẗ, balal, bulālaẗ ‘dampness, moisture’, †ballān ‘warm bath (LevAr); waiter at baths’; †balāl~bulāl ‘water, milk’
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘to soak, mix’) Akk bll, Hbr bālal, Syr balbel ‘to confuse’, Te balla.
▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BLL-1 Akk balālu ‘mélanger; allier, brasser’; Hbr bālal ‘mélanger (avec de l’huile)’; Aram bal ‘mélanger’; Ar balla ‘mouiller, tremper, humecter’;1 SAr bll ‘irriguer’; Te bälla ‘mélanger’, bällälä ‘changer la couleur’; Pun bll: espèce de sacrifice.2 – Akk ballu ‘fourrage mélangé’; Hbr bᵊlīl, TalmAram bᵊlīlā ‘méteil’; Ar balla ‘désaltérer, apaiser’, bill ‘convalescence’; Tham (*Š-stem) h-bl ‘guérison’; Ar balāl ‘bien’, bullaẗ pl. bilāl) ‘bien, bienfait’; SAr bll ‘bien (?)’. -2–6 […].3
▪ Borg2021 #53 b-l-l compares Akk balālu ‘to blend, mingle, concoct’; ballu ‘mixed (medicinal and aromatic substances)’ (Parpola 2007: 13; CAD II 63) and (outside Sem) Eg (i) bꜢj (Med) ‘feucht sein (unter anderem vom Schweiß)’; bꜢy ‘foot ewer’; bꜢi͗w ‘damp (adj.)’ (Wb I 417; Faulkner 1962: 77).▪ …
 
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►ballala, vb. II = I: D‑stem, ints.
►ʔaballa, vb. IV, ↗²balla
►taballala, vb. V, and ĭbtalla, vb. VIII, to be moistened, be wetted; to become wet: Dt‑ and Gt‑stem (respectively).
►ball, n., 1a moistening, wetting; 1b moisture: vn. I.
►bill, n., ↗²balla
►billaẗ, n.f., moisture, humidity
►balal,n., 1a moisture, humidity; 1b moistness, dampness, wetness: vn. I
►balīl, n., a moist, cool wind: ints. formation, *‘the moist, humid one’.
►balīlaẗ, n.f., (EgAr) porridge made of wheat or maize with milk and sugar: Does balīlaẗ belong here (perh. *‘soaked cereals’), or is it rather the *‘meal that helps to recover, or is given to s.o. recovering, from an illness’ (↗²balla), or is it perh. akin to the *‘mixed offering’ of Pun bll (see above, section COGN)?
►ʔiblāl, n., ↗²balla
►taballul, n., moistness, dampness, humidity: vn. V.
►mablūl, muballal, mubtall, adj., moist, damp, wet; drenched (by rain): PP I, II, VIII, respectively.

For other items of the root, cf. ↗²balla, ↗EgAr balīlaẗ, as well as, for the overall picture, ↗√BLː (BLL). 
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