adjective · bāla 1 · bāla 2
young
young in years; ignorant; foolish. (masculine) a child; a fool
Bāla 1 (adjective) [cf. Sanskrit bāla (rarely Vedic, more frequent in Epic and Classical Sanskrit); its original meaning is "young, unable to speak," cf. Latin infans, hence "like a child, childish; infantile"] 1. ignorant (often with reference to ignorance in a moral sense, of the common people, the puthujjana), foolish (as contrasted with paṇḍita cf. the Bālapaṇḍita-sutta M III 163 f.; D II 305 f.; Vism 499, and contrasts at Snp 578; Dhp 63, 64; Pv IV 3 32 ; Dhs 1300), lacking in reason, devoid of the power to think and act right. In the latter sense sometimes coupled with andha (spiritually blind), as andhabāla stupid and ignorant, mentally dull, e.g. at Dhp-a I 143; II 89; Pv-a 254. — A fanciful etymology of b. at Pj I 124 is "balanti ananti ti bālā." Other references: D I 59, 108; S I 23; A I 59, 68, 84; II 51, 180; Snp 199, 259, 318, 578, 879; It 68; Dhp 28, 60 f., 71 f., 206 f., 330; Ja I 124 (lola° greedy-foolish); V 366 (bālo āmaka-pakkaṃ va); Vv 83 5 ; Pv I 8 2 ; IV 1 29 ; Pp 33; Nidd I 163, 286 f., 290; Pj II 509 (= aviddasu); Pv-a 193. Compare bālatara Ja III 278, 279; Vv-a 326. 2. young, new; newly risen (of the sun): °ātāpa the morning sun Sv I 287; Dhp-a I 164; Mhbv 25; vasanta "early spring" (= Citramāsa), name of the first one of the 4 summer months (gimha-māsā) Pj I 192; °suriya the newly risen sun Ja V 284; Pv-a 137, 211. 3. a child; in wider application meaning a youth under 16 years of age (cf. Abh 251) Sv I 134. Cf. bālaka. {486} -nakkhatta name of a certain "feast of fools," i.e. carnival Dhp-a I 256; -saṅgatacārin one who keeps company with a fool Dhp 207. Bāla 2 [for vāla] the hair of the head Pv-a 285 (°koṭimatta not even one tip of the hair; gloss vālagga°).
【形】 年輕的，無知識的，愚蠢的。【陽】 孩子，愚人。~ka,【陽】 孩子。~ta,【陰】 愚蠢。
(adj, adj) foolish; ignorant; stupid; immature ignorant, foolish
(masc, masc) fool; idiot; immature person fool
(adj, adj) young in years
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