balbal

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɑːlbəl/|/ˈbæl-/    美 /ˈbɑlbəl/|/ˈbæl-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In pre-Islamic Turkic cultures, an anthropomorphic stonen stele embedded in the ground at or near a kurgan (“type of prehistoric burial mound”); some are thought to symbolize enemies which a deceased warrior killed in their lifetime.
    — [T]he Polovtsy or Cumans set up figures holding cups before them, and cases occur of "báby" being found upon barrows of the mediaeval nomads, e.g. at Torskaja Sloboda, district of Kupjansk, government of Kharkov[…]. Further in the Orkhon inscriptions very similar figures are designated as balbals, memorial statues.

词形变化

balbals plural

词源

Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐰉𐰞𐰉𐰞 (b¹l¹b¹l¹ /⁠balbal⁠/), from a Mongolic language.
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