baila

From Portuguese [Term?].

baila (uncountable)

1. (music) A genre of music from Sri Lanka and India, mainly using European instruments and rhythms.
   • 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 322:

     Unfortunately Wellington noise control cut short the party after 3 a.m., when drunken baila broke the decibel level.

• labia, Alabi, Albia, Abila

baila

1. third-person singular present indicative of bailar
2. second-person singular imperative of bailar

Perhaps from Latin varia, feminine of varius (“variegated”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbaj.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbaj.la]

baila f (plural bailes)

1. spotted seabass (Dicentrarchus punctatus)

   Synonym: llobarro pigallat

• verat

• “baila” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• baille (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German wīle, from Old High German wīla, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīlu, from Proto-Germanic *hwīlō (“time, period of time, while”). Cognate with German Weile, English while.

bàila f

1. (Luserna) moment, while

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Back-formation from bailar

• IPA^(key): [ˈbajlɐ]

baila f (plural bailas)

1. ball, festive dancing event
2. an instance of dancing

baila

1. inflection of bailar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “baila”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “baila”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• balia (synonym)

From Portuguese bailar and Spanish bailar.

baila

1. to dance

Borrowed from Spanish valla.

• balha

baila f (plural bailas)

1. what's being commented or mentioned

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

baila

1. inflection of bailar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

baila

1. inflection of bailar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative