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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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balāṭ بلاط 
ID 090 • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BLṬ 
n. 
1 royal court, palace. – 2a pavement, floor; b (pl. ʔabliṭaẗ) floor tiles – ‎WehrCowan1979. 
According to Shahîd (see below, “Etymology"), the word (in meaning ‎no. 1, ‘royal court') is one of the loans from Latin that owe their existence to the »strong Roman ‎military and administrative presence in the region", whereas no. 2 came from Grk. 
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BLṬ-1-4 […]. -5 Ar balāṭ ‘palais’, balaṭa ‘aplanir, niveler, damer’. -6 […].
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▪ EALL (Shahîd, “Latin Loanwords”): 1) from Lat palatium ‘imperial residence’; ‎‎2) from Grk plateîa ‘flagstone, paved way’
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►al-balāṭ al-malakī, n., the royal court;
►ḥidāḍ al-balāṭ, n., court mourning

 ►ballaṭa, vb. II, to pave (s.th., with flagstones or tiles): D-stem, denom., applicative
► balāṭaẗ, n.f., 1 floor tile; 2 flagstone, slab stone; 3 paving stone: quasi-n.un.
► tablīṭ, n., paving, tile-laying: vn. II
► muballaṭ, adj., paved, tiled: PP II

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ballūṭ, ↗balṭaẗ, ↗balaṭaẗ, ↗bulṭī as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BLṬ. 
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