TORTHAÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
balla1, m. (gs. ~, pl. ~í). Wall. ~ cloiche, brící, adóibe, fód, stone, brick, adobe, earthen, wall. ~ mór, main wall. ~ istigh, inner wall; inner side of wall. ~ taca, breast-wall. ~ beag, bed-wall (in old houses). ~ fuar, dry, unmortared, wall. Níl ann ach na ~í fuara, na ~í loma, there is nothing but the bare walls. S.a. lus.
balla2 = bulla5.
ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Tá ~ taisligh ar na ballaí, there is a damp sweat on the walls.
An balla ~, the external wall.
Balla, claí, cuaille, a ardú, to raise the height of a wall, a fence, a pole.
~ sa bhalla, a peg in the wall.
Balla a bhearnú, to breach a wall.
Balla, carraig, ag ~adh (amach), wall, rock, bulging (outwards).
~ balla, lampa, wall-, lamp-, bracket.
Tá an balla ina bhraic, the wall is loose.
Balla, bríce, pláta, ~, broken wall, brick, plate.
~ de bhalla, collapsed portion of wall.
Bualadh faoi bhalla, to hit against a wall.
Bhuail sé an balla le clocha duirlinge, he dashed the wall with shore pebbles.
~ síne (i mballa), weathered surface, damp patch (in wall).
Faoi bhun an bhalla, an chrainn, beneath, at the foot of, the wall, the tree.
~ ar ~ le balla na cé, lipping the quay wall.
~ anuas den bhalla é, knock it down off the wall.
Cheap an balla, an abhainn, sinn, the wall, the river, barred our way.
~ (i gclaí, i mballa), stile.
Bhí an balla ina chladach, the wall was reduced to a heap of stones.
balla, cinn, inclination of wall, of head.
Balla cloiche, stone wall.
~ aláraim, balla, buailte, cuaiche, alarm-, wall-, striking-, cuckoo-, clock.
Tá ~ ar na ballaí, the walls are coated, filthy.
Cois cnoic, balla, carraige, at the foot of a hill, of a wall, of a rock.
Pictiúr a chrochadh ar bhalla, to hang a picture on a wall.
Dréimire a chur le balla, to put a ladder against a wall.
Rud a chur thar bhalla, thar aill, to put, throw, sth. over a wall, a cliff.
Doras, ballaí, seomra, cúil, back-door, -wall, -room.
~ sa bhalla é, fix it firmly in the wall.
Tá na ballaí ag ~ an uisce, the walls are sucking in, absorbing, the water.
Bheith ~ do choill, do bhalla, do chontúirt, to be close to a wood, to a wall, to danger.
~ balla, cláir, depth of a wall, of a board.
In ~ an bhalla, against the wall.
Éirí le balla, to rise up alongside a wall.
bhun an bhalla, underneath the wall.
Níl sé ~ bhallaí an tí, it is not within the walls of the house, it is nowhere in the house.
Ag ~ as an talamh, ar na ballaí, growing out of the ground, on the walls.
Balla ~, (i) wall made of clay and small stones, (ii) wall with a bottom course of small stones.
Ballaí fuara folmha, bleak and bare walls.
Balla ~, dry, unmortared, wall.
Ag ~áil thar an mballa, an droichead, an abhainn, going over the wall, the bridge, the river.
Balla a ghealadh, to whiten a wall.
Tá sé ag ~adh amach as an mballa, it is projecting from the wall.
Balla a ghormú, to colour a wall blue.
Bhí siad ~the ar bharr an bhalla, they were perched together on top of the wall.
Ballaí ~, dark, cheerless, walls.
~ balla, cruaiche, cnoic, bottom of wall, of stack, of hill.