bulo

See also: -bulo, bul-o, and buło

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• bulmarko (“bullet”)

Related terms

• pilko
• globo
• sfero

Galician

Verb

bulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bulir

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto bulo, French boule, Spanish bola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lo/

Noun

bulo (plural buli)

1. ball
2. bubble

Derived terms

• nivobulo (“snowball”)

See also

• balono (ball; balloon)

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bulo m (plural buli)

1. Alternative form of bullo

Anagrams

• Ulbo

Lindu

Noun

bulo

1. funnel

Makasar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbulɔ]

Noun

bulo (Lontara spelling ᨅᨘᨒᨚ)

1. bamboo

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lɔ/
• Rhymes: -ulɔ
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

Noun

bulo f

1. vocative singular of bula

Portuguese

Verb

bulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bulir

Spanish

Etymology

Perhaps from Caló bul (“crap, nonsense”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Further reading

• “bulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Compare Kapampangan bulu and Remontado Agta bul-u.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈloʔ/ [bʊˈloʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

Noun

bulô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

1. calf of cattle (such as cows, carabaos, etc.)

   Synonyms: bisiro, guya

Alternative forms

• bolo, bol-o, bol o — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• bul-o — now dialectal, Rizal, Southern Tagalog

Derived terms

• buluan
• buluin
• magbulo

 

Etymology 2

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbulo/ [ˈbuː.lo]
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

Noun

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

Derived terms

• buluhan
• buluhin
• kabu-kabuluhan
• kabuluhan
• mabulo
• mabuluhan
• magbulo
• magkabulo
• makabuluhan
• may bulo pa ang pisngi
• pagkabulo
• walang-kabuluhan

 

See also

• bulbol

 

Further reading

• “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”

Anagrams

• buol, ulbo, lubo, ulob

West Makian

Etymology

Cognate with Ternate budo (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.l̪o/

Verb

bulo

1. (stative) to be white

Conjugation

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

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

Wolof

Etymology

From French bleu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulɔ/

Verb

bulo

1. to be blue