fuelle

See also: füllé, fülle, and Fülle

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin follis, follem.

Noun

fuelle m (plural fuelles)

1. bag (of bagpipes)
2. bellows (device for delivering pressurized air)
3. sack or bag made from sheep skin

   Synonyms: zurrón, pelleyu

4. stomach (especially animals')

   Synonyms: banduyu, butiellu, estómadu

5. respiration
6. crease, fold in clothes

Middle English

Noun

fuelle

1. (Catholicon Anglicum) alternative form of fuayle

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈfweʝe/ [ˈfwe.ʝe]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfweʝe/ [ˈfwe.ʝe] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfweʎe/ [ˈfwe.ʎe] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfweʃe/ [ˈfwe.ʃe] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfweʒe/ [ˈfwe.ʒe] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfwee/ [ˈfwe.e] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

 

• Rhymes: -eʝe

• Rhymes: -eʝe (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -eʎe (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eʃe (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -eʒe (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -ee (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Syllabification: fue‧lle

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin follem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰnis, derivative of *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).

Noun

fuelle m (plural fuelles)

1. bellows (device for delivering pressurized air)
2. (photography) bellows (enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back)
3. the folding roof of a convertible vehicle
4. bag (of bagpipes)
5. stamina; steam
   • 2023 November 12, Xosé Hermida, “La derecha despliega todas sus redes para deslegitimar a Sánchez”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Vox, el partido que tomó vuelo con el procés y que había perdido fuelle a medida que este se desinflaba, ha hallado un balón de oxígeno.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• perder fuelle

Related terms

• follar
• holgar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fuelle

1. inflection of follar (“to blow with a bellows”):
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “fuelle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025