balok

• bawok

• Hyphenation: ba‧lok

balok

1. the red-brown hairlike structure found in the underside of coconut palm fronds

From Javanese ꦧꦭꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (balok), from Dutch balk. Doublet of balak.

• IPA^(key): /ba.lok/, [ˈba.lɔʔ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧lok

balok (plural balok-balok, first-person possessive balokku, second-person possessive balokmu, third-person possessive baloknya)

1. block: a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
2. (forestry) log: the trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches; any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
3. (geometry) cuboid: a parallelepiped having six rectangular faces.
4. board:
   1. (nautical) the side of a ship.
   2. (sports) takeoff board of long jump.
5. beam:
   1. any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
   2. (sports) balance beam: a gymnastics apparatus, a narrow wooden rail used in artistic (athletic) gymnastics.
6. (military, colloquial) epaulet, epaulette, shoulder board: an ornamentation, worn on the shoulders of a military uniform, as a sign of rank.

   Synonym: epolet

7. the unit of measurement for opium weight of 1,030 kg

• balak
• balak (Standard Malay)

• “balok” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

balok

1. Alternative form of ballok

balok

1. (anatomy) gall bladder

From Proto-Batak *baləg, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baləj.

balok

1. boundary, border

• J. Warneck (1906) Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch‎, Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, page 22