bouleau

French

Etymology

From Old French boul, bououl + -eau. Compare Italian betulla, Catalan bedoll, Spanish abedul, Portuguese bétula, as well as Galician bídalo and bidueiro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.lo/

• Audio (France, Paris):

  (file)

• Homophones: bouleaux, boulot, boulots
• Hyphenation: bou‧leau

Noun

bouleau m (plural bouleaux)

1. birch tree

Further reading

• “bouleau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.