The story
- Mongolic · derived from
- Old Turkic · learned borrowing from𐰉𐰞𐰉𐰞
- English todaybalbal
Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐰉𐰞𐰉𐰞 (b¹l¹b¹l¹ /balbal/), from a Mongolic language.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
balbal
bal·balToday it means: In pre-Islamic Turkic cultures, an anthropomorphic stonen stele embedded in the ground at or near a kurgan (“type of prehistoric burial mound”); some are thought to symbolize enemies which a deceased warrior killed in their lifetime. Full definition →
Old Turkic 𐰉𐰞𐰉𐰞 ← Mongolic