በለስ

Amharic

Noun

በለስ • (bäläs)

1. fig
2. prickly pear

   Synonyms: ቁልቋል (ḳulḳʷal), ቁልቋል በለስ (ḳulḳʷal bäläs)

   • 2019 July 25, “ቁልቋል በለስ የሚበላ እና የሚጠጣ [ḳulḳʷal bäläs yämibäla ʾəna yämiṭäṭa]”, in Ethio On Line‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 February 2020:

Ge'ez

Etymology

See also Arabic بَلَس (balas, “fig”), a Yemenite word.

Noun

በለስ • (bäläs) m or f (plural በለሳት (bäläsat), and አብላስ (ʾäblas))

1. fig, also sycomore (fruit and tree)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “በለስ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 487
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 97a

Tigre

Noun

በለስ • (bäläs) (noun of unity በለሰት (bäläsät), plural አበል̄ስ (ʾäbälləs))

1. fig
2. prickly pear

References

• Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “በለስ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[2], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 270a

Tigrinya

Noun

በለስ • (bäläs)

1. fig
2. prickly pear