Wiktionary

bole

See also: bolē, bóle, bółe, bôle, bøle, Bole, Bólè, and b́olĕ

English

edit
 
The bole (trunk) of a tree
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation

edit

Etymology 1

edit

From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).

Noun

edit

bole (plural boles)

  1. The trunk or stem of a tree.
    • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems, volume 1, page 188:
      Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean / Upon the dusky brushwood underneath / Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green, / New from its silken sheath.
    • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
      A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.
Derived terms
edit
Translations
edit

Etymology 2

edit

Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.

Noun

edit

bole (countable and uncountable, plural boles)

  1. Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
    • 2018 April 14, “8 things to know about İznik pottery”, in Christie's‎[1]:
      Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface.
  2. The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
    bole:  
  3. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
    • 1649, Jeremy Taylor, “An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy Against the Pretence of the Spirit”, in Charles Page Eden, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., volume V, published 1849, page 294:
      […] or else […] the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.
Derived terms
edit

Etymology 3

edit

Noun

edit

bole (plural boles)

  1. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
    • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
      Take then good Barley newly thrashed and well purged from the Chaff, and put thereof eight Boles, that is about ſix English Quarters, in a Stone - trough

Etymology 4

edit

Noun

edit

bole (plural boles)

  1. (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
    • 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Adam and Charles Black, published 1862, page 220:
      "Open the bole," said the old woman firmly and hastily to her daughter-in-law, “open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin […] .
  2. (Scotland) A small closet.

Anagrams

edit

Albanian

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

Variant of bolle. Occurs exclusively in the plural form.

Noun

edit

bole m pl

  1. testicles
edit

Buol

edit

Etymology

edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

bole

  1. house

Czech

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Etymology 1

edit

Noun

edit

bole

  1. vocative singular of bol

Etymology 2

edit

Verb

edit

bole

  1. present masculine singular transgressive of bolet

Dama (Sierra Leone)

edit

Etymology

edit

Perhaps related to Vai [script needed] (boi, “structure without walls”) or Mende bolo (“courthouse with high walls”) (having the definite form bolei.

Noun

edit

bole

  1. courthouse

References

edit
  • Dalby, T. D. P. (1963) “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54

Galician

edit

Verb

edit

bole

  1. third-person singular present indicative of bulir
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of bulir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latvian

edit

Etymology

edit

From English bowl, probably via German Bowle. Alternative historical forms: bols. First attested use to mean a bowl for making punch – 1880. First attested use to refer to the beverage itself – 1886.[1]

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

bole f (5th declension)

  1. (dated sense) a bowl for making punch
    Bowle: bole (punša un citu tādu dzērienu kauss) – Bowle (German): bole (a bowl for punch or similar drinks).[2]
  2. punch (drink made of wine, diluted with juices, syrups and fruit, often with added cognac or rhum)
    zemeņu bole – strawberry punch
    boles trauks – punch bowl

Declension

edit
Declension of bole (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) bole boles
accusative (akuzatīvs) boli boles
genitive (ģenitīvs) boles boļu
dative (datīvs) bolei bolēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) boli bolēm
locative (lokatīvs) bolē bolēs
vocative (vokatīvs) bole boles

Synonyms

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ “bole” in Juris Baldunčiks (1989), Anglicismi latviešu valodā (Rīga: «Zinātne») →ISBN.
  2. ^ Brasche G., (1880), Deutsch-lettisches Wörterbuch, Riga; Leipzig, page 152.

Lower Sorbian

edit

Verb

edit

bole

  1. Superseded spelling of bóle.

Middle English

edit

Etymology 1

edit

From a mixture of Old English bula, *bulla, and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô.

Alternative forms

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /ˈbul(ə)/, /ˈbuːl(ə)/, /ˈbɔːl(ə)/

Noun

edit

bole (plural boles or bolen)

  2. bull, steer, male cow
  3. (heraldry) A heraldic bull
  4. (astrology) Taurus (zodiac)
  5. (astronomy) Taurus (constellation)
edit
Descendants
edit
  • English: bull
  • Scots: bul, bull

References

edit

Etymology 2

edit

From Old Norse bolr.

Alternative forms

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

bole (plural boles)

  2. trunk, bole
  3. tree
Descendants
edit

References

edit

Portuguese

edit

Verb

edit

bole

  1. inflection of bolar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of bulir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

edit

Participle

edit

bole (Cyrillic spelling боле)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of bosti

West Makian

edit

Etymology

edit

From Malay boleh (“can, may, possible”).

Pronunciation

edit

Interjection

edit

bole

  1. good, fine!

References

edit
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=bole&oldid=80102842"