babul

See also: Babul

English

Alternative forms

• babool

Etymology

Borrowed both from French baboul and from Hindi बबूल (babūl, “babul tree”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit वव्वोल (vavvola, “acacia”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈbuːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːl

Noun

babul (plural babuls)

1. A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.
   • 1884, Rudyard Kipling, The Moon of Other Days:

     In place of Putney's golden gorse / The sickly babul blooms.

Synonyms

• kikar, prickly acacia

References

• “babul”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “babul, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2011.
• Acacia nilotica subsp. indica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Acacia nilotica subsp. indica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Acacia nilotica subsp. indica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Vachellia+nilotica at The Plant List

Anagrams

• bubal

Volapük

Etymology

From a contraction of balsebalul ( = bals (“ten, now deg”) +‎ e (“and”) +‎ bal (“one”) +‎ -ul (“(bound morpheme for) month (< mul)”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ba.ˈbul]

Noun

babul (nominative plural babuls)

1. (obsolete) November (the eleventh (11th) month of the year)

Usage notes

• This older term has been replaced by novul (“November”).

Declension

Declension of babul

	singular	plural
nominative	babul	babuls
genitive	babula	babulas
dative	babule	babules
accusative	babuli	babulis
vocative 1	o babul!	o babuls!
predicative 2	babulu	babulus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

• balsebalul (obsolete)
• degbalul (cf. parallel contractions: deg(balul) > degbul; balse(balul) > babul)
• novul