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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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BLD بلد 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 5Oct2022
√BLD 
“root” 
▪ BLD_1 ‘country’ ↗balad
▪ BLD_2 ‘to be stupid, idiotic, dull-witted’ ↗baluda
▪ BLD_ ‘steel’ ↗fūlāḏ (var. būlād)

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘a marked plot of land; an animal dwelling, an abode, to abide in a place, to stay put; a tower; city, village; density; to be lacking in intelligence’ 
▪ BLD_1 : from …
▪ BLD_2 : from …
▪ BLD_3 : see ↗fūlāḏ …
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BLD-1 Ar balad ‘pays plat, terre, sol’, bilād ‘contrée’; Tham bldt ‘pays’; Soq bilād, Śḥr bilád ‘ville’; ?Har bad ‘pays, terre’. -2 Ar baluda, balida ‘être lent, stupide’, ʔablad ‘seul, délaissé’; ?Amh bolläd : singe qui vit seul; homme sans foi ni loi. -3 Ug (yn) bld (ǵll) : sorte de vin. -4 Te Tña blād, Amh bulad ‘silex’.
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balad بَلَد , pl. bilād , ‎buldān 
ID 088 • Sw – • BP 99 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 5Oct2022
√BLD 
n.; rarely f. 
1 country; 2 town, city; 3 place, community, village; 4 bilād, country; 5 buldān, countries – WehrCowan1976 
▪ According to Gutas (see below), the word is ‎one of the few cases where Grk acted as intermediary for the transmission of a Latin loanword. 
▪ Q 2:126, 3:196, 7:57-58, etc. Also baladaẗ 25:49, 27:91, 34:15, etc. ʻcountry, region, territoryʼ 
▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BLD-1 Ar balad ‘pays plat, terre, sol’, bilād ‘contrée’; Tham bldt ‘pays’; Soq bilād, Śḥr bilád ‘ville’; ?Har bad ‘pays, terre’. - Cf. perh. also 2 Ar baluda, balida ‘être lent, stupide’, ʔablad ‘seul, délaissé’; ?Amh bolläd : singe qui vit seul; homme sans foi ni loi. -3-4 […].
▪ Outside Sem, Borg2021 #51 (b-l-d) compares Eg bnd/bꜢd.t (Gr) ‘Acker’ (Wb II 464).
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▪ Jeffery1938: »The verb balad‑ in the sense of ‘to dwell in a ‎region’ is denominative, and Nöldeke recognized that balad in the sense of ‘a place where one ‎dwellsʼ was a Semitic borrowing from the Lat palatium : Grk palátion. This has been accepted ‎by Fraenkel, Fremdw, 28, and Vollers, ZDMG, li, 312, and may be traced back to the military ‎occupation of N. Arabia.«

▪ EALL (Gutas, “Greek Loanwords”): a loan from Grk ‎palátion that goes back to Latin palatium.

▪ Shahîd (EALL, “Latin Loanwords”) also mentions ‎Lat. palatium ‘town, inhabited area’, but adds that this etymology is uncertain. 

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►bilād al-ḥabaš, Ethiopia;
► bilād al-ṣīn, China;
► bilād al-hind, India

 ►ballada, vb. II, to acclimatize, habituate (s.th., to a country or region): D-stem, denom., caus.
► taballada, vb. V, 1 pass. of II; 2 ↗baluda: tD-stem, self-ref.
► BP#1458baldaẗ, n.f., 1 town, city; 2 place, community, village; 3 rural community; 4 township
► BP#2236baladī, adj., 1 native, indigenous, home (as opposed to foreign, alien); 2 (fellow) citizen, compatriot, countryman; 3 a native; 4 communal, municipal: nsb-adj. | maǧlis ~, n., city council, local council
► BP#1243baladiyyaẗ, pl. -āt, n.f., 1 township, community, rural community; 2 ward, district (of a city); 3 municipality, municipal council, local authority: abstr. formation in ‑iyyaẗ

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗baluda as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BLD. 
baladiyyaẗ بَلَدِيَّة 
ID 089 • Sw – • BP 1243 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BLD 
n.f. 
1 township, community, rural community; 2 ward, district (of a city); 3 municipality, municipal council, local authority – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ abstr. formation in -iyyaẗ from ↗balad. 
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balud- بَلُدَ , u (balādaẗ) 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 5Oct2022
√BLD 
vb., I 
to be stupid, idiotic, dull-witted – WehrCowan1976 
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BLD-1 […]. -2 Ar baluda, balida ‘être lent, stupide’, ʔablad ‘seul, délaissé’; ?Amh bolläd : singe qui vit seul; homme sans foi ni loi. -3 […].
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►taballada, vb. V, 1 ↗balad; 2a to become stupid, besotted, lapse into a state of idiocy; b to show o.s. from the stupid side: tD-stem, self-ref.
► tabālada, vb. VI, to feign stupidity: : tL-stem, imitative

► balīd, var. ʔabladᵘ, adj., stupid, doltish, dull-witted, idiotic: quasi-PP, ints.adj.
► balādaẗ, n.f., stupidity, silliness: vn. I
► taballud, n., idiocy, dullness, obtuseness, apathy: vn. V
► mutaballid, adj., besotted, dull, stupid: PA V

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗balad as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BLD. 
būlād بُولاد 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BLD, BWLʔD, BūLāD 
n. 
steel – WehrCowan1979. 
A var. of ↗fūlāḏ. 
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