Bula

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bula"

English

Etymology

Two main origins:

• Borrowed from Polish Bula or Buła, from buła (“round object; fat person”).
• Borrowed from American Spanish Bula.

Proper noun

Bula (countable and uncountable, plural Bulas)

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Bailey County, Texas, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bula is the 37735^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 589 individuals. Bula is most common among White (59.08%) and Hispanic/Latino (34.47%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bula”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 249.

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Bu‧la
• IPA^(key): /buˈlaʔ/ [buˈl̪aʔ]

Proper noun

Bulâ

1. A municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines.

Czech

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbula]

Proper noun

Bula m anim (female equivalent Bulová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Bula (masculine animate in -a)

	singular	plural
nominative	Bula	Bulové
genitive	Buly	Bulů
dative	Bulovi	Bulům
accusative	Bulu	Buly
vocative	Bulo	Bulové
locative	Bulovi	Bulech
instrumental	Bulou	Buly

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.la/
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: Bu‧la

Proper noun

Bula m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Bula

	singular	plural
nominative	Bula	Bulowie
genitive	Buli	Bulów
dative	Buli	Bulom
accusative	Bulę	Bulów
instrumental	Bulą	Bulami
locative	Buli	Bulach
vocative	Bulo	Bulowie

Proper noun

Bula f

1. a female surname

Declension

Declension of Bula

	singular	plural
nominative	Bula	Bule
genitive	Buli	Bul
dative	Buli	Bulom
accusative	Bulę	Bule
instrumental	Bulą	Bulami
locative	Buli	Bulach
vocative	Bulo	Bule

Further reading

• “Bula”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbula]

Proper noun

Bula m anim (feminine Bulová)

1. a male surname

Further reading

• “Bula”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024