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bula

See also: Bula, bulă, bulą, buła, bułą, Buła, -bula, and بلݳ

Brunei Malay

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Etymology

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Compare Malay bola.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bula/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧la

Noun

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bula

  1. ball (spherical object for playing games)
  2. (colloquial) football (UK), soccer (US)

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Cebuano

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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Derivation unknown. Either if it was from Proto-Austronesian *bujeq (via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bujeq)[1] or borrowed from Spanish burbuja (“bubble”).

Noun

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bula

  1. a bubble
  2. substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains; froth; foam
  3. the foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water; lather

Verb

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bula

  1. to bubble
  2. to lather; to cover with suds; to lather up
  3. to form or emit foam
  4. to spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth
  5. to create froth in (a liquid)

Adjective

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bula

  1. bubbly

Etymology 2

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The spongy texture being likened to foam.

Noun

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bula

  1. the cotyledon of a coconut; a coconut apple; a coconut embryo

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Chamorro

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Adjective

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bula

  1. plenty; a lot

Chavacano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Tagalog bula (“bubble”).

Noun

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bulâ

  1. bubble

Fijian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Central Pacific *wola, from Proto-Oceanic *wola, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada (“to exist”).

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Interjection

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bula!

  1. hello!
  2. cheers!

Verb

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bula

  1. to live
  2. to exist

Noun

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bula

  1. life
  2. existence

Galician

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Probably from a Celtic substrate language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷew- (“excrement; dung”) or Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”); compare bosta, bouta, busto.

Noun

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bula f (plural bulas)

  1. (uncountable) dung, manure (of cattle)
    Synonym: bosta
  2. platter, an individual cow dung
    Synonym: bosta
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Etymology 2

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Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bóla and bola.

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Noun

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bula f (plural bulas)

  1. bull (document)

Etymology 3

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Verb

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bula

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

References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “bulla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bula”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “bula” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “bula” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “bula” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Iban

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bula

  1. to lie

Derived terms

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Ladino

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Noun

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bula f (Latin spelling)

  1. lady, madam

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Nyunga

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Adjective

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bula

  1. abundant, plentiful
  2. many

References

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  • 1853, Rosendo Salvado, The Salvado Memoirs (1977 edition edited by E. J. Storman)

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Spanish volar and Portuguese voar, Portuguese pular and Kabuverdianu bua.

Verb

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bula

  1. to fly
  2. to jump

Portuguese

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 bula on Portuguese Wikipedia
 
bula

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bola and bolha.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: bu‧la

Noun

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bula f (plural bulas)

  1. bull (document)
  2. (pharmacy) medication package insert (document that provides information about a drug and its use)
    Synonym: leitura

Etymology 2

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Verb

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bula

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

Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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bula f (plural bulas)

  1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) butterfly, moth

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بولا (bola, bula, “wife of one’s paternal uncle; lady, miss”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bûla/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧la

Noun

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bȕla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ла)

  1. (colloquial) a Muslim woman in harem pants or covered with a headscarf
  2. (colloquial) a married woman
Declension
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Declension of bula
singular plural
nominative bȕla bule
genitive bule bȗlā
dative buli bulama
accusative bulu bule
vocative bulo bule
locative buli bulama
instrumental bulom bulama

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bǔla/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧la

Noun

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bùla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̀ла)

  1. (medicine) bull (blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion)
  2. (anatomy) an empty space
Declension
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Declension of bula
singular plural
nominative bùla bule
genitive bule búlā
dative buli bulama
accusative bulu bule
vocative bulo bule
locative buli bulama
instrumental bulom bulama

Etymology 3

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From bȕla (the first etymology).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bǔːla/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧la

Noun

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búla f (Cyrillic spelling бу́ла)

  1. (Islam) Islamic religion teacher
  2. (Islam) Islamic clerk or official
Declension
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Declension of bula
singular plural
nominative bula bule
genitive bule bula
dative buli bulama
accusative bulu bule
vocative bulo bule
locative buli bulama
instrumental bulom bulama

Etymology 4

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bûla/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧la

Noun

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bȕla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ла)

  1. bull (seal affixed to a document)
  2. (by metonymy) charter with such bull
  3. a box in which a seal is stored
Declension
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Declension of bula
singular plural
nominative bȕla bule
genitive bule bȗlā
dative buli bulama
accusative bulu bule
vocative bulo bule
locative buli bulama
instrumental bulom bulama

References

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  • “bula” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “bula” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “bula” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “bula” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Sotho

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-dùguda.

Verb

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bula

  1. to open
    Antonym: kwala

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bola and bolla.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbula/ [ˈbu.la]
  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Syllabification: bu‧la

Noun

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bula f (plural bulas)

  1. bull (document)
  2. strength
  3. (obsolete) bubble
    Synonym: burbuja

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Likely from Middle Low German būle. Compare Dutch buil, German Beule, English boil. Uncertain original form, but ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell up”). Doublet of ballong, boll, bolster, bulle, bälg, and bölja.

Noun

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bula c

  1. a bulge, a bump (small, round, hard, tender swelling, especially one caused by a strike or blow)
    Jag slog i huvudet i skåpdörren och fick en bula
    I hit my head on the cabinet door and got a bump
  2. a bulge (smooth outward bend more generally, due to internal pressure or the like)
    Folk gav honom komplimanger för hans stora bula
    People complimented him on his big bulge

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Declension of bula 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bula bulan bulor bulorna
Genitive bulas bulans bulors bulornas
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Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Derivation unknown. Either from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *budaq,[1] Proto-Austronesian *bujəq via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bujəq,[2] or borrowed from Spanish bula (“bubble”). The word burbuja has since displaced bula (“bubble”) in Spanish, then the old meaning remained in Tagalog if borrowed.

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Noun

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bulâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

  1. foam; bubble; suds
    Synonyms: espuma, ampolya, (obsolete) subo
  2. foaming saliva caused by disease or great excitement
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Etymology 2

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Possibly from Malay bolak (“prevarication”). Alternatively, possibly from Hokkien 誣賴／诬赖 (bû-lōa, “to falsely incriminate”), according to Manuel (1948).

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Noun

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bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

  1. lie; falsehood; fib
    Synonyms: kabulaanan, kasinungalingan
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Etymology 3

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulah, from Proto-Austronesian *buləS (“Shorea albus”).

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Noun

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bulá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

  1. Philippine mahogany (Toona calantas)
    Synonym: kalantas

Etymology 4

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Borrowed from Spanish bula (“bull”), from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bola.

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Noun

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bula (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

  1. bull (document)

Etymology 5

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ) (obsolete)

  1. scaring of crows
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Interjection

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bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ) (obsolete)

  1. word used for scaring crows away: shoo

References

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*budaq₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
  2. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bujeq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

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  • “bula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎[1], La Noble Villa de Pila
    • page 304: “Eſpantar) Bula [(pp)] cueruos repitiendo eſta palabra”
    • page 308: “Eſpuma) Bula (pc) T. dela olla o de otra coſa”
  • Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 18

Ternate

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Noun

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bula

  1. a part, piece, component

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Xhosa

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Etymology

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

Verb

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-bula?

  1. (transitive) to confess
    Synonym: -xela

Inflection

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Yogad

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Noun

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bulá

  1. boar
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