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balg.

leather bag

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɑlx/
  1. leather bag

    masculine
  2. bellows

    masculine
  3. fake bait for training birds

    masculine
  4. study skin (prepared corpse of a bird kept for the sake of scientific study)

    masculine
  5. cover for moving joints, as in articulated buses

    masculine
  6. belly

    dialectal · masculine
  7. body

    masculine · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch balch, from Old Dutch balg, from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz.

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