balbal (Orkh., Yen.)

a stone pillar erected on a grave

Russian meaning: каменная колонна на могиле, истукан
Old Turkic: balbal (Orkh., Yen.)
Comments: EDT 333. Borrowed (possibly from an unattested Bulgar source) in Old Russ. bolvanъ, Hung. bálvány 'stone idol' (suggestion of Melioranski, evidently preferable to the hypothesis of Korsch-Dmitriev < Pers. pahlavān, see Шипова 84-85, Аникин 114).