balina

Ultimately from Italian balena, probably via Ottoman Turkish.

balina (definite accusative balinanı, plural balinalar)

1. whale

   Synonym: kit

• balena

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish barrena, from Mozarabic barrina, from Late Latin veruina (“long javelin”), from Latin veru (“javelin”). Doublet of barena.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈlinaʔ/ [bɐˈliː.n̪ɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -inaʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧li‧na

balinà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜒᜈ) (obsolete)

1. auger; borer

• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 104: “Barrena) Balena (pp) C. de Caſtilla que para diferençialla dela ſuyala llaman anſi”

• balani, balian

From Ottoman Turkish بالنه (balina), from Italian balena. Doublet of afalina.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ˈli.na/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧li‧na

balina

1. (zoology) whale