Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bla n.

[pron.]

(S.Afr.) brother.

[SA]M. Melamu ‘Bad Times, Sad Times’ in Mutloatse Forced Landing 41: My two home-boys, Cy and Biza are making my troubles the bus-stop gossip [...] They are talking full-blast, real township style. No inhibitions, my bla.