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بَالَةٌ ذال بذاله بذالة A [flask, or bottle, such as is called] قَارُورَة: (M, K:) pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] ↓ بَالٌ . (TA.) ― -b2- A [bag such as is called] جِرَاب, (T,M, K,) small and large, in which mush is put: (T:) or (M [in the K “ and ”]) the receptacle of perfume: (S, M, K:) a Persian word, (S, M,) arabicized; (S;) in Persian بِيْلَه, (T, S, M,) or بَالَه: (M:) pl. [or coll. gen. n.] ↓ بَالٌ . (T.) ― -b3- It is said to signify also An odour; a smell; (T;) on the authority of Aboo-Sa'eed Ed-Dareer; (TA;) from بَلَوْتُهُ meaning “ I smelled it, and tried, proved, or tested, it; ” originally بَلْوَةٌ; the و being transposed, and changed into ا. (T.) ― -b4- And A staff with a pointed iron at the end, used by the hunters of El-Basrah, who throw it at the game: pl. [or coll. gen. n.] ↓ بَالٌ . (T, TA.) ― -b5- And hence it is applied by the vulgar to A small elongated sword. (TA.) -A2- It is also an inf. n. of بَالَى, which see in its proper art. (TK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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