bula

Compare Malay bola.

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

bula

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

• bula sipak (“football”)

• buwa

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

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

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)

bula

1. bubbly

The spongy texture being likened to foam.

bula

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

bula

1. plenty; a lot

Borrowed from Tagalog bula (“bubble”).

bulâ

1. bubble

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

• IPA^(key): /ᵐbu.la/

bula!

1. hello!
2. cheers!

bula

1. to live
2. to exist

bula

1. life
2. existence

• IPA^(key): [ˈbulɐ]

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

bula f (plural bulas)

1. (uncountable) dung, manure (of cattle)

   Synonym: bosta

2. platter, an individual cow dung

   Synonym: bosta

• buleira

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

• bulda, buldra

bula f (plural bulas)

1. bull (document)

bula

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

• “bulla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bula” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

• IPA^(key): /bulaʔ/

bula

1. to lie

• pemula

bula f (Latin spelling)

1. lady, madam

• bulisa

bula

1. abundant, plentiful
2. many

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

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

bula

1. to fly
2. to jump

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

• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bula f (plural bulas)

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

   Synonym: leitura

bula

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

• bella (Sursilvan)
• pula (Surmiran)

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

bula f (plural bulas)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) butterfly, moth

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) spler
• (Rumantsch Grischun) tgiralla
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) tschitta
• (Puter) chüralla
• (Vallader) splerin

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

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

bȕla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ла)

1. (colloquial) a Muslim woman in harem pants or covered with a headscarf
2. (colloquial) a married woman

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”).

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

bùla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̀ла)

1. (medicine) bull (blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion)
2. (anatomy) an empty space

From bȕla (the first etymology).

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

búla f (Cyrillic spelling бу́ла)

1. (Islam) Islamic religion teacher
2. (Islam) Islamic clerk or official

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla.

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

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

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

From Proto-Bantu *-dùguda.

bula

1. to open

   Antonym: kwala

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

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

bula f (plural bulas)

1. bull (document)
2. strength
3. (obsolete) bubble

   Synonym: burbuja

• “bula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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.

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

• bulen
• bulna

• bukta

• bula in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bula in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bula in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• bula in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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.

• IPA^(key): /buˈlaʔ/, [bʊˈlaʔ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bulâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

1. foam; bubble; suds

   Synonyms: espuma, ampolya, (obsolete) subo

2. foaming saliva caused by disease or great excitement

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulaʔ/, [ˈbu.lɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

1. lie; falsehood; fib

   Synonyms: kabulaanan, kasinungalingan

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

• IPA^(key): /buˈla/, [bʊˈla]
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bulá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

1. Philippine mahogany (Toona calantas)

   Synonym: kalantas

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbula/, [ˈbu.lɐ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bula (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

1. bull (document)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulaʔ/, [ˈbu.lɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ) (obsolete)

1. scaring of crows

bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ) (obsolete)

1. word used for scaring crows away: shoo

• “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, 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.la]

bula

1. a part, piece, component

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

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

-bula^?

1. (transitive) to confess

   Synonym: -xela

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

bulá

1. boar