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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

No, no, boss!" cried Tommy, energetically, "baal you bogey longa that waterhole.

From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke

“Mine wear baal clothes,” he said pityingly, as he, with his skin dry directly, looked at their efforts to dry themselves.

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

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

The first church there dates from the fourth century, and Christians took over the temple of Baal in the fifth century.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

“This season, investors are giving Big Oil a kind of climate reprieve, a climate pause,” said Mark van Baal, head of Follow This.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

"Maybe in the very short term they have to replace Russia supply with oil from other countries. But in the long term we don't need more oil and gas," Van Baal said.

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

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's dog Baalim caught sight of the dead woman and howled piteously, and the sound was so weird it started them all.

From Settling Day by Nat Gould

The gods worshipped by the Semite were Baalim or “Lords,” like the men whom they protected, and whose creators they were believed to be.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

Baalim was ugly, and he seemed to glory in it.

From Settling Day by Nat Gould

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