baal
adverb
no; not.
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baal
1 American
[bahl]
/ bɑl /
adverb
Australian Slang.
Baal
2
American
[bay-uhl, bayl]
/ ˈbeɪ əl, beɪl /
noun
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Baalim
plural
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any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic peoples, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshiped with much sensuality.
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(sometimes lowercase) a false god.
Baal
British
/ bɑːl /
noun
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any of several ancient Semitic fertility gods
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Phoenician myth the sun god and supreme national deity
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(sometimes not capital) any false god or idol
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Etymology
Origin of baal1
Australian Pidgin English < Dharuk bí-al
Origin of Baal2
From the Hebrew word baʿal lord
Example Sentences
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I have reserved unto me seven thousand men which have not bowed their knees to baal.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
“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
No, no, boss!" cried Tommy, energetically, "baal you bogey longa that waterhole.
From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke
“Why, aunt, baal means none, or not any.”
From The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Several different Mesopotamian civilizations worshipped Baal, who was considered the chief deity of weather and fertility.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Before he read the opening passage from “The Satanic Verses,” Mr. Kunzru quoted a line from another part of the book, when the irreverent poet Baal defines a poet’s purpose.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
“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
"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 was ugly, and he seemed to glory in it.
From Settling Day by Nat Gould
If ever a dog wished to express gratitude in a canine way it was Baalim at that moment.
From Settling Day by Nat Gould
Nor, indeed, are they Baalim at all in the strict sense of the word.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The central figures represent the androgyne deity, Baalim, Astaroth, Elohim, Jupiter genetrix, or the bearded Venus Mylitta.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman
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