בולבע

Yiddish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ukrainian бу́льба (búlʹba) and/or Belarusian бу́льба (búlʹba).

Noun

בולבע • (bulbe) f, plural בולבעס (bulbes), diminutive בולבעלע (bulbele)

1. potato (plant tuber eaten as starchy vegetable)

   Synonym: קאַרטאָפֿל (kartofl)

2. bubble

   Synonyms: בולבעלע (bulbele), בלעזל (blezl), בלעזעלע (blezele)

Derived terms

• קאַשע־בולבע (kashe-bulbe)

Further reading

• Map of dialectal variants for "potato(es)" from Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish by Dovid Katz

References

• Justus van de Kamp et al., “בולבע” in Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek [Yiddish-Dutch Dictionary], Amsterdam: Stichting Jiddische Lexicografie, 1987-present (ongoing). [1].
• Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “bubble”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN