balas
Portuguese, noun
balas is spelled B-A-L-A-S (5 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,625th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balas is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “plural of bala” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tipo de almofadas que se usava, nas prensas tipográficas manuais, para entintar as formas de caracteres”.
What does balas mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of bala
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of balar
- 2
second-person singular present subjunctive of balir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tipo de almofadas que se usava, nas prensas tipográficas manuais, para entintar as formas de caracteres
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce balas?
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is balas in Portuguese?
balas appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).