ballade

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of balada and ballad. === Pronunciation === === Noun === ballade (plural ballades) (music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements. (poetry) A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length. ==== Derived terms ==== ballade royal === See also === ballad Ballade (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Abdella == Danish == === Etymology === From French ballade. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aːdə === Noun === ballade c (singular definite balladen, plural indefinite ballader) ballad (narrative poem) (uncountable) mischief, hijinks (uncountable) trouble, unrest ballad (slow romantic song) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “ballade” in Den Danske Ordbog “ballade” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog == Dutch == === Pronunciation === === Noun === ballade f (plural balladen or ballades, diminutive balladetje n) ballad === References === “ballade” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language] == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French balade, from Provençal balada (“song for dancing”), from balar (“to dance”), from Late Latin ballare, borrowed from, or related to, Ancient Greek βαλλίζω (ballízō). Doublet of ballée. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ba.lad/ === Noun === ballade f (plural ballades) ballade (lyric poem) ballad ==== Descendants ==== → Danish: ballade → English: ballade → Estonian: ballaad → Latvian: balāde → Livonian: balād → Lithuanian: baladė → Romanian: baladă → Russian: баллада (ballada)→ Georgian: ბალადა (balada)→ Kazakh: баллада (ballada) → Turkish: balad === References === James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Ballade”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC. === Further reading === “ballade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012