Balu

Widow - woman whose spouse has died. Article “Balu” in Malay Wikipedia has 75.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 25 references and 13 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Balu”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 608 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 3806 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #4546 in December 2024
• Global: #18388 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #1758 in May 2022
• Global: #37172 in July 2010

There are 27 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Malay (ms) Balu		75.4565
2	English (en) Widow		64.7275
3	Greek (el) Χηρεία		56.3883
4	Bulgarian (bg) Вдовица		27.5416
5	Finnish (fi) Leski		27.3921
6	Esperanto (eo) Vidvoj kaj vidvinoj		24.7284
7	Persian (fa) بیوه		23.5353
8	Norwegian (no) Enke		21.5993
9	Croatian (hr) Udovica		20.7812
10	Czech (cs) Vdova		20.58

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Balu" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Widow		2 921 714
2	Japanese (ja) 寡婦		2 342 497
3	Arabic (ar) أرملة		207 603
4	Indonesian (id) Duda dan janda		171 074
5	Persian (fa) بیوه		132 937
6	Vietnamese (vi) Góa		95 057
7	Swedish (sv) Änka		91 194
8	Korean (ko) 과부		69 154
9	Finnish (fi) Leski		67 152
10	Hindi (hi) विधवा		56 775

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Balu" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Widow		7 191
2	Japanese (ja) 寡婦		3 253
3	Persian (fa) بیوه		1 031
4	Hungarian (hu) Özvegy		431
5	Indonesian (id) Duda dan janda		400
6	Vietnamese (vi) Góa		368
7	Korean (ko) 과부		190
8	Hindi (hi) विधवा		152
9	Swedish (sv) Änka		136
10	Thai (th) ม่าย		133

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Balu" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Widow		280
2	Japanese (ja) 寡婦		55
3	Finnish (fi) Leski		25
4	Persian (fa) بیوه		24
5	Hungarian (hu) Özvegy		23
6	Arabic (ar) أرملة		22
7	Esperanto (eo) Vidvoj kaj vidvinoj		20
8	Simple English (simple) Widow		20
9	Hindi (hi) विधवा		19
10	Czech (cs) Vdova		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Balu" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) أرملة		1
2	Japanese (ja) 寡婦		1
3	Swedish (sv) Änka		1
4	Belarusian (be) Удава		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Вдовица		0
6	Czech (cs) Vdova		0
7	Greek (el) Χηρεία		0
8	English (en) Widow		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Vidvoj kaj vidvinoj		0
10	Estonian (et) Lesk		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Balu" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Widow		1 355
2	Japanese (ja) 寡婦		607
3	Swedish (sv) Änka		215
4	Simple English (simple) Widow		183
5	Arabic (ar) أرملة		157
6	Czech (cs) Vdova		143
7	Persian (fa) بیوه		142
8	Finnish (fi) Leski		100
9	Indonesian (id) Duda dan janda		98
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Udovica		98

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أرملة
be	Belarusian Удава
bg	Bulgarian Вдовица
cs	Czech Vdova
el	Greek Χηρεία
en	English Widow
eo	Esperanto Vidvoj kaj vidvinoj
et	Estonian Lesk
fa	Persian بیوه
fi	Finnish Leski
fr	French Veuf
hi	Hindi विधवा
hr	Croatian Udovica
hu	Hungarian Özvegy
id	Indonesian Duda dan janda
ja	Japanese 寡婦
kk	Kazakh Жесір
ko	Korean 과부
ms	Malay Balu
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Enkje
no	Norwegian Enke
sh	Serbo-Croatian Udovica
simple	Simple English Widow
sv	Swedish Änka
th	Thai ม่าย
ur	Urdu بیوہ
vi	Vietnamese Góa

Best Rank

Malay: #1758 05.2022

Global: #37172 07.2010

Best Rank

Malay: #4546 12.2024

Global: #18388 11.2011

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