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Bala

Bala proper noun: a small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH9235).

Proper noun (1)

Bala

  1. A small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH9235).
  2. A rural community of Muskoka Lakes municipality, Ontario, Canada, named after Bala, Wales.
  3. An unincorporated community in Riley County, Kansas, United States, named after Bala in Wales.

Proper noun (2)

Bala

  1. An extinct Jurchenic language formerly spoken in northeastern China.

Bala meaning in Tamil

Bala in Tamil

சுடுகல சன்னம்

Origin of Bala

In Wales, from Welsh Bala, from bala (“effluent from a lake”).

From Mandarin 巴拉語 /巴拉语 (Bālāyǔ, “Bala language”).

Words formed from Bala

Phrases with Bala

Questions about Bala

What does Bala mean?
Bala means a small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH9235).
What is Bala in Tamil?
Bala in Tamil is சுடுகல சன்னம். See Bala meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Bala?
Bala is a proper noun.

Words near Bala in the dictionary

  1. Bal Harbour
  2. Bal Marcoville
  3. bal musette
  4. bal-chatri
  5. bal-chatris
  6. Bala
  7. Bala Lake
  8. bala shark
  9. bala sharks
  10. Balaam
  11. Balaam basket

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Bala (page history and authors); bala (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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