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• baal
  baal

  adverb

  no; not.
• Baal
  Baal

  noun

  any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic peoples, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshiped with much sensuality.

baal

¹ American  

[bahl] / bɑl /

adverb

Australian Slang.

1. no; not.

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Baal ² American  

[bay-uhl, bayl] / ˈbeɪ əl, beɪl /

noun

• Baalim
  plural

1. any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic peoples, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshiped with much sensuality.

2. (sometimes lowercase) a false god.

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Baal British  

/ bɑːl /

noun

1. any of several ancient Semitic fertility gods

2. Phoenician myth the sun god and supreme national deity

3. (sometimes not capital) any false god or idol

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Baalish
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Baalim
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of baal¹

Australian Pidgin English < Dharuk bí-al

Origin of Baal²

From the Hebrew word baʿal lord

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Example Sentences

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baal Baal Baalim

“Why, aunt, baal means none, or not any.”

From The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey

These princes bore the interesting names Azi-ba'al, Abi-ba'al, Aduni-ba'al, Sapati-baal, Pudi-baal, Ba'al-yašupu, Ba'al-ḫanunu, Ba'al-maluku, Abi-milki, and Aḫi-milki, showing the popularity of the element baal in the names of the people of Arvad.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches

Marmy, baal you take 'em yarroman like 'it Hinchinbrook; my word, plenty of alligator sit down along of water.

From Australian Search Party by Henry Walter Bates

Mine tell Leather fellow jump right away, and police fellow baal find.”

From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by L. Rahey

I haue lefte me seuen thowsand in Israell / of which neuer man bowed his knees vnto baal / nor kissed hym with his mouthe.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Peter Martyr

Mark van Baal, founder of the activist shareholder group Follow This, was more blunt.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

These included the Great Colonnade, the city’s main street, and a famous temple dedicated to the god Baal.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

“It is going to be a tough year,” said Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, which organizes shareholders to demand oil companies move more aggressively into clean energy.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023

"We were positively surprised," said Follow This founder Mark van Baal.

From Reuters ● Mar. 14, 2022

There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

“We are all worshippers of Baalim, and so we had this joke between us where we insult each another, jovially, as brothers would.…”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Baalim raised his head, yawned, licked his fore paws one by one, turned over and snarled.

From Settling Day by Nat Gould

Baalim was sniffing round his master's house as usual, on the lookout for a canine encounter, when he saw this woman.

From Settling Day by Nat Gould

Yet precisely as the latter were man-made deities, so the Babylonian Baalim were very similar to human kings.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus

Dr Tom was most enthusiastic, and went about the Creek, followed by Baalim, with an air of importance, as though greatness had been suddenly and unexpectedly thrust upon him.

From Settling Day by Nat Gould

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