Noun: ble
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | ble |
| Plural m | blens |
Sample Sentences
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llum de ble (candle, oil lamp)
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—Perque no'ns hi ajuda com ara'l sol. Que's creu que'l bevem nosaltres el ví? Nosaltres no soms més que'l blè de la llumanera. Si falta l'oli'l blè's consumeix y'l llum s'apaga. [1900, Marià Vayreda i Vila, “Rufagades”, in Sanch Nova:]
Nouns inflected like ble
cinquanta-u,
felandri,
setanta-u,
seixanta-u,
u,
bé,
to,
pa,
vi,
so,
fre,
gra,
lli,
ble,
bru,
bri,
tro,
pla,
ple,
trenta-u, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Possibly from a reconstructed *bledino-, a derivation of Proto-Celtic *bledyos (“wolf”). Among the many common names in the languages of Europe for Verbascum thapsus (the common mullein), whose long leaves were historically used to make wicks, are the equivalents of “wolf's tail” or “fox's tail”. (For example, Welsh cynffon llwynog (“fox's tail”), dialectal Catalan cua de guilla (“fox's tail”).)
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