Balla

Balla

1. A village in County Mayo, Ireland.

Originally a nickname meaning "rascal," from balosso (“dumb, stupid, harebrained”).

Balla m or f by sense

1. a surname

   Giacomo Balla, Italian painter

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Balla”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 90.

• Valla

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βάλλα (Bálla).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbal.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbal.la]

Balla f sg (genitive Ballae); first declension

1. An ancient town of Pieria

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Vallaeus

• “Balla”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• IPA^(key): [ˈbala]

Balla m pers (female equivalent Ballová)

1. a male surname

• “Balla”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025