bail

== English == === Pronunciation === (pane–pain merger) enPR: bāl (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /beɪl/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /bæɪl/ (North India) IPA(key): /beːl/ (South India, without the pane–pain merger) IPA(key): /bejl/ Rhymes: -eɪl (pane–pain merger, most accents) Homophone: bale === Etymology 1 === From Middle English baille, from the Old French verb bailler (“to deliver or hand over”) and noun bail (“lease”), from Latin bāiulāre (“carry or bear”), from baiulus (“porter; steward”) (English: bailiff). ==== Noun ==== bail (countable and uncountable, plural bails) (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money. (law, UK) The person providing such payment. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc. A person who bails water out of a boat. (obsolete) Custody; keeping. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== bailiff ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed) To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail. (law) To release a person under such guarantee. (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment. (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out. November 4, 1857, Henry William Harper, letter to St. John: we had hard work to reach our haven, having to bail out the water with my straw hat. (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out. To set free; to deliver; to release. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== bailiff ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From a shortening of bail out, ultimately same as above. ==== Verb ==== bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed) (intransitive, slang) To leave or exit abruptly. 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62: The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools […] have tried it and bailed. (intransitive, informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). [with on ‘someone’] ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === From Middle English beyle, from Old English bīeġels, from bīeġan +‎ -els. ==== Noun ==== bail (plural bails) A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket). A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop). 1953, British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt, 1960, John Wiley, page 160, More recently, the fixed bail, sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing. 2011, Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939, page 191, Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails, instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace. (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed) To secure the head of a cow during milking. === Etymology 4 === Borrowed from French baillier. ==== Verb ==== bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed) (rare) To confine. (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking. (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. ===== Translations ===== === Anagrams === Albi, Bali, Liab. == Bouyei == === Etymology === From Proto-Tai *pajᴬ (“to go”). Cognate with Thai ไป (bpai), Northern Thai ᨻᩱ (pai), Khün ᨻᩱ (pai), Lao ໄປ (pai), Lü ᦺᦔ (ṗay) and ᦺᦗ (pay), Tai Dam ꪼꪜ, Shan ပႆ (pǎi), Aiton ပ︀ႝ (pay), Zhuang bae. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɐi˨˦/ === Verb === bail to go to walk to go away; to leave to spend; to use up === Preposition === bail to; toward == Cimbrian == === Etymology === See baille (“while”) === Conjunction === bail (Sette Comuni) while ==== Related terms ==== baille darbàil === References === “bail” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /baj/ Homophones: baille, baillent, bailles, bye === Etymology 1 === From bailler. ==== Noun ==== bail m (plural baux) lease (contract) (colloquial) yonks, ages ===== Derived terms ===== contrat de bail === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Haitian Creole bagay, from French bagage. ==== Noun ==== bail m (plural bails) (slang) thing, stuff, affair === Further reading === “bail”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Irish == === Alternative forms === abail === Etymology === From Old Irish bal (“state (of affairs), condition, situation; prosperity, good luck, good effect”); see buil (“effect, result, condition, completion”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bˠalʲ/ === Noun === bail f (genitive singular baile) prosperity Synonym: rath proper condition, order state treatment validity ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== bailchríoch (“finishing touch”) gan bhail (“invalid, void”) bailigh === Mutation === === Further reading === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bail”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “bail”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58 “bail”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026 == Latvian == === Etymology === Originally a reduced form of *bailu, a u-stem parallel form to the archaic singular form baile of bailes “fear” (cf. Lithuanian bailùs (“afraid”)). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [bâjl] === Adverb === bail (+ dat. + (no +) gen.) afraid, scared (in the mental state typical of fear) viņam ir bail no suņiem ― he is afraid of dogs zēnam kļūst bail ― the boy becomes afraid bail, ka nesaaukstējas ― he is afraid of catching a cold bail no aukstuma, no ūdens ― afraid of heights, of water bail svešu ļaužu ― afraid of strangers bail skatīties lejup ― afraid of looking down bērnam bail runāt ar svešiem ― the child is afraid of talking to strangers man tā vēja bail: tas nolauza manu egli ― I am afraid of that wind: it broke my spruce tree man metas bail, ka tiešām Hibšs nekļūst traks ― I suddenly became afraid that Hibšs of all people might go crazy === References === == Palauan == === Etymology === From Pre-Palauan *bayul, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balun, from Proto-Austronesian *baluN. === Noun === bail cloth == Scottish Gaelic == === Etymology 1 === From the root of buil (“consequence, completion, result”) ==== Noun ==== bail f thrift, frugality ===== Derived terms ===== baileach mì-bhail === Etymology 2 === From Latin ballista. ==== Noun ==== bail f sling, ballista === References ===