See also: Bulan

AlanganEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulán

  1. moon

AzerbaijaniEdit

ParticipleEdit

bulan

  1. subject non-past participle of bulmaq

BakungEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

BalineseEdit

RomanizationEdit

bulan

  1. Romanization of ᬩᬸᬮᬦ᭄.

Baram KayanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Bikol CentralEdit

 
bulan

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan
  • IPA(key): /ˈbulan/

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

BintuluEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Brooke's Point PalawanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Brunei MalayEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayic *bulan (compare Malay bulan), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /bulan/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. month (period into which a year is divided)

CebuanoEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bulan

  1. Moon
  2. moon of other planets
  3. month

VerbEdit

bulan

  1. to hire as a servant

Derived termsEdit

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bulan.

ReferencesEdit

  • Fr. Juan Felis de la Encarnación (1851) Diccionario bisaya-español[1] (in Cebuano and Spanish), Amigos del País, page 69
  • John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan[2] (in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Dairi BatakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Dupaningan AgtaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

HigaononEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon

HiligaynonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

búlan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

IbaloiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

IbanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

IlocanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan
  • IPA(key): /ˈbulan/, [ˈbu.lan]

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

IndonesianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Malay bulan, from Classical Malay bulan, from Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Doublet of rembulan and wulan. The sense any natural satellite of a planet is a semantic loan from Dutch maan (moon).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbulan/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -lan, -an, -n
  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan

NounEdit

bulan (plural bulan-bulan)

  1. moon:
    1. largest natural satellite of planet Earth.
    2. any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet.
  2. month (period into which a year is divided)

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

JavaneseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

bulan

  1. Clipping of rembulan.

KapampanganEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan
  • IPA(key): /ˈbulən/, [ˈbuː.lən]

NounEdit

búlan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Derived termsEdit

Karo BatakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

KavalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon

Kayapa KallahanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

KelabitEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Limos KalingaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

MalayEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as [script needed] (vulan), from Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Sense of any natural satellite of a planet is a semantic loan from Dutch maan (moon) or from English moon.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bulan (Jawi spelling بولن‎, plural bulan-bulan, informal 1st possessive bulanku, 2nd possessive bulanmu, 3rd possessive bulannya)

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

SynonymsEdit

AntonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Indonesian: bulan

ReferencesEdit

  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “بولن bulan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 132
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “bulan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 161-2

Further readingEdit

MasbatenyoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Matigsalug ManoboEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. month
  2. moon

NgajuEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Old JavaneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. month (period into which a year is divided)

DescendantsEdit

RatagnonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Remontado AgtaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

búlan

  1. moon
  2. month

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Romani bul (buttocks).

NounEdit

bulan n (plural bulane)

  1. (slang) good luck
  2. (slang) leg

DeclensionEdit

SasakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

SundaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

bulan

  1. Romanization of ᮘᮥᮜᮔ᮪

SwedishEdit

NounEdit

bulan

  1. definite singular of bula.

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Cebuano bulan from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Doublet of buwan.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan
  • IPA(key): /ˈbulan/, [ˈbu.lɐn]

NounEdit

bulan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

  1. (neologism) moon
    Synonyms: buwan, (rare) luna

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • del Rosario, Gonsalo (1969) Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino [Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino] (in English & Tagalog), Manila: National Book Store, Inc., →LCCN, →OL

TausugEdit

 
bulan

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Toba BatakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

TurkishEdit

VerbEdit

bulan

  1. imperfect participle of bulmak

YakanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

YogadEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

NounEdit

bulán

  1. moon
  2. month