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▪ BLː (BLL)_1 ‘to moisten, make wet’ ↗¹balla
▪ BLː (BLL)_2 ‘to recover (from illness)’ ↗²balla
▪ BLː (BLL)_3 ‘porridge made of wheat or maize with milk and sugar’ ↗EgAr balīlaẗ

Other values, now obsolete, include:

▪ BLː (BLL)_4 ‘wicked, hypocrite, unjust’: ^†ʔaballᵘ, f. ballāʔᵘ, pl. bull (Hava1899)
▪ BLː (BLL)_5 ‘moan’: ^†ball, ^†balīl (Hava1899)
▪ BLː (BLL)_6 ‘a kind of fern’: LevAr ^†ballān (Hava1899)
▪ BLː (BLL)_7 ‘meeting-place’: ^†balāl~bulāl (Hava1899)
▪ BLː (BLL)_ ‘’:

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▪ BLː (BLL)_1-3 : The grouping in DRS suggests that all items belong together, based on the idea of ‘mixing’. If this is correct, BLː (BLL)_1 ‘to moisten, make wet’ is originally *‘to mix with water’; BLː (BLL)_2 ‘to recover (from illness)’ may be *‘to get well again due to fresh (= wet, moistened, or mixed, variegated?) pasture/food’ (or simply refreshing coolness thanks to moisture? – cf. obsolete ^†balīl, balīlaẗ ‘cold and damp wind’, or ^†ballaẗ ‘freshness of youth’, given by Hava1899); and EgAr balīlaẗ may be either *‘soaked cereals’ (< ‘to moisten, make wet’), or the *‘meal that helps to recover, or is given to s.o. recovering, from an illness’, or it has preserved the basec idea of ‘mixing’ and is to be interpreted as *‘mixture, potpourri’, with this coming closest to Pun bll *‘mixed offering’.
▪ ^†BLː (BLL)_4 : cf. DRS 2 (1994) #BLL-2
▪ ^†BLː (BLL)_5 : cf. DRS 2 (1994) #BLL-4
▪ ^†BLː (BLL)_6 : cf. DRS 2 (1994) #BLL-5
▪ ^†BLː (BLL)_7 : ?
▪ ClassAr lexicographers traditionally also group under √ BLː (BLL) the particles bal ‘but; on the contrary, besides, much more, rather; no, nay’ and balà ‘(after neg.) oh yes!, but of course!, certainly!’.

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▪ 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 Ar balila, balla ‘être agressif, hargneux’, balalaẗ, bulalaẗ ‘haine implacable’, bill ‘malheur’; Amh bällälä ‘se gâter, aller mal, ne pas réussir’; Te bolälä ‘se sentir mal, abhorrer’.³ -3 Akk bullu ‘emporter, arracher?’; Ar balla (fī ’l- ʔarḍ) ‘errer; aller droit devant soi’; Tña bällälä ‘voler’; Har täbāläla ‘se hâter’. -4 Ar balīl ‘gémissement, plainte douce’, ballala ‘roucouler (colombe), crier (paon)’; Amh (Gondar) bulall- ‘tourterelle’.⁴ -5 Ar ball (coll.) ‘fleurs, fruits (d’un épineux); sureau?’, balalaẗ: sorte d’épineux, ‘aspalathe’, ballān: sorte de plante, ‘fougère?’?; Gz ʔablalit: sorte de chardon; Te bälla ‘mauvaise herbe’.⁵ -6 […].
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1. Avec le sens de ‘mouiller, humecter’, la rac. se rattache peut-être à une base AfrAs: Eg byʔ ‘ciel (eau du ciel, sur laquelle on navigue)’; Cush bire, bile ‘ciel, pluie’. 2. C’est un ‘sacrifice mélangé’ qui représente probablement un gâteau fait avec de l’huile. 3. Les formes éth. peuvent aussi bien se rattacher à 1 par l’intermédiaire de valeurs attestées ‘être détrempé, perdre sa couleur, se dissoudre’. 4. Cf. ↗bulbul 5. Les formes rapprochées ici n’ont peut-être pas grand-chose en commun. L’Ar est d’ap. DAFA 829. – Noter Akk bulālu (a)bulilu: plante (empr. d’origine inconnue).

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