Definitions for Balas

Balas bal·as

Spelling: [bal-uh s, bey-luh s]
IPA: /ˈbæl əs, ˈbeɪ ləs/

Balas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Balas (aabls).

Definitions for Balas

noun

  1. a rose-red variety of spinel.
  2. Bilhah.

Origin of Balas

1375-1425; late Middle English Medieval Latin balasius, variant of balascius Arabic balakhsh, back formation from Persian Badakhshān, district near Samarkand, where gem is found

Examples for Balas

Coins, which possess several points of interest, are assigned to balas by the best authorities.

And yet his work stands out from the ruck of the contemporary versifiers as a balas ruby among carrots.

This ring was but a simple gold ring, in which was set a balas ruby, of great value.

Page 167, line 67, and seq.—'Carbuncle and balas ruby,' etc.

But in the battle in which balas was overthrown, the Egyptian king also received his death wound.

Some dealers call reddish spinels "balas ruby" (rose red), and orange red ones "rubicelle."

balas, a name used to distinguish the rose-coloured species of ruby from the ruby proper.

Egypt was the defeat and downfal of balas, although it cost Philometor his life.

Spinelle Ruby, called Dodecahedral corundum by some mineralogists, and balas ruby by lapidaries.

After the death of balas he laid siege to the Akra; and “the apostates, who hated their own nation,” appealed to Demetrius.

Word Value for Balas
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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