balken

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: bal‧ken
• Rhymes: -ɑlkən

From Middle Dutch balken, belken, also bulken, probably onomatopoeic. Similar formations are found in German bölken (from Middle Low German), West Frisian balkje, English belch.

balken

1. (intransitive) to bray, make a donkey's sound
2. (intransitive, figuratively) to utter asinine talk
3. (intransitive) to bawl, cry, weep loudly
4. (intransitive) to belt, sing loudly

• huilebalk

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

balken

1. plural of balk

• blaken
• blanke

From balke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalkən/

balken

1. to leave an unplowed ridge between furrows.
2. to omit or neglect.

• English: balk
• Yola: balke

• “balken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

balken

1. definite singular of balk