blaa

See also: blå and blåa

English

Etymology

From French, either from blé (“wheat”) or from blanc (“white”) as in pain blanc (“white bread”). Cognate with Yola blah (“a thin cake”).

Noun

blaa (plural blaas)

1. (baking, Ireland) A soft white breakfast roll, traditionally associated with south-east Ireland.

Derived terms

• Waterford blaa

Anagrams

• AABL, Alba, Ba'al, Baal, Bala, Baʿal, LABA, alba, baal, laab

East Central German

Alternative forms

• bloo

Etymology

From Middle High German blā, from Old High German blāo.

Adjective

blaa

1. (Erzgebirgisch) blue

Further reading

• Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24
• Alte und neue Gedichte und Geschichten in erzgebirgischer Mundart, 12. Heft., P. 2
• Manfred Blechschmidt, Behüt eich fei dos Licht Ein Weihnachtsbuch des Erzgebirges P. 190

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish bla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɑː/, [ˈblɑ̝ː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Syllabification^(key): blaa
• Hyphenation^(key): blaa

Interjection

blaa

1. bla, blah

Further reading

• “blaa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 14 May 2026

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bláth, from Proto-Celtic *blātus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɛː/

Noun

blaa m (genitive singular blaa, plural blaaghyn)

1. flower
2. bloom
3. pride
4. heyday

Derived terms

• blaag
• blaaghey
• blaagheyder
• blaanid
• blaaoil

Mutation

Mutation of blaa

radical	lenition	eclipsis
blaa	vlaa	mlaa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.