bulo

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See also: -bulo, bul-o, and buło

Esperanto

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  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): [ˈbulo]
  • Rhymes: -ulo
  • Hyphenation: bu‧lo

Noun

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bulo (accusative singular bulon, plural buloj, accusative plural bulojn)

  1. ball (of dough, dirt, snow, etc.)
  2. clod

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Galician

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bulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bulir

Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto buloFrench bouleSpanish bola.

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Noun

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bulo (plural buli)

  1. ball
  2. bubble

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ulo
  • Hyphenation: bù‧lo

Noun

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bulo m (plural buli)

  1. Alternative form of bullo

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Lindu

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Noun

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bulo

  1. funnel

Makasar

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq.

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bulo (Lontara spelling ᨅᨘᨒᨚ)

  1. bamboo

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbulɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ulɔ
  • Syllabification: bu‧lo

Noun

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bulo f

  1. vocative singular of bula

Portuguese

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Verb

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bulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bulir

Spanish

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Etymology

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Perhaps from Caló bul (crap, nonsense).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbulo/ [ˈbu.lo]
  • Rhymes: -ulo
  • Syllabification: bu‧lo

Noun

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bulo m (plural bulos)

  1. (Spain) canard, hoax (false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so)
    Synonyms: filfa, hoax
    • 2015, Eva Aladro Vico, Graciela Padilla Castillo, Aplicaciones actuales de la comunicación e interacción digitales, ACCI (Asoc. Cultural y Científica Iberoameric.) (→ISBN), page 426:
      Debemos, sin embargo, establecer una distinción entre todos los anteriores y el engaño o bulo, cuya voz inglesa, “hoax” se utiliza en España, de forma concreta, para definir aquellos fraudes informativos que se transmiten por Internet.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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  1. ^ bulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Compare Kapampangan bulu and Remontado Agta bul-u.

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bulô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. calf of cattle (such as cows, carabaos, etc.)
    Synonyms: bisiro, guya
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (body hair; fur; feather). Compare Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦸ (wulu) and Malay bulu. For the figurative sense, compare Spanish pelo (hair; filament; little importance).

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bulo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. silky floss or hair covering (on leaves, fruits, stem of plants, etc.)
  2. fine hairy growth (on wings of butterflies, bodies of some worms, etc.)
  3. (figurative, obsolete) small amount of value, worth, importance
    Synonyms: saysay, halaga, kahulugan, kahalagahan, kabuluhan, kuwenta, importansiya, (dated) kasaysayan
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Further reading

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  • bulo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 158.
  • Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
  • San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
    • page 107: Beçerro) Bol o (pc) hijo de baca de carabao o yegua
    • page 107: Bello) Bolo (pp) aſſi del cuerpo como del rroſtro o manos
    • page 473: Pelo) Bolo (pp) [o bello] del cuerpo o manos, valan cabolohan, abs) no bale vn pelo, valan cabocabolohan, menos bale que vn pelo, mabolo, ad) coſa de mucho pelo [o bello]
    • page 573: Ternera) Bol o (pc) baca niña

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West Makian

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Etymology

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Cognate with Ternate budo (white).

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Verb

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bulo

  1. (stative) to be white

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bulo (stative verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tibulo mibulo abulo
2nd person nibulo fibulo
3rd person inanimate ibulo dibulo
animate mabulo
imperative —, bulo —, bulo

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[3], Pacific linguistics

Wolof

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Etymology

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From French bleu.

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bulo

  1. to be blue