sorry everyone I tried to clear up the confusion but ended up making it worse, however atleast we know that the word is not from a derrogatory word for people from a low caste (which is sad in itself) but means knife in certain languages/dialects
Bally
it would be funny if this catches on though, imagine ambiguous auction descriptions
"here we have a beautiful big knife, from somewhere not here, size is bigger than usual, hilt wider than normal, and colour strange but not peculiar"
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