bula

Compare Malay bola.

• IPA^(key): /bula/
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bula

1. ball (spherical object for playing games)
2. (colloquial) football (UK), soccer (US)

• bula sipak (“football”)

Compare bulbul.

• IPA^(key): [bula]

bula (plural bulamuts)

1. partridge

Sadaf Munshi (2015), “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project‎.

• buwa

From Spanish burbuja (“bubble”).

bula

1. a bubble
2. substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains; froth; foam
3. the foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water; lather

bula

1. to bubble
2. to lather; to cover with suds; to lather up
3. to form or emit foam
4. to spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth
5. to create froth in (a liquid)

bula

1. bubbly

The spongy texture being likened to foam.

bula

1. the cotyledon of a coconut; a coconut apple; a coconut embryo

bula

1. plenty; a lot

From Tagalog bula (“bubble”).

bulâ

1. bubble

From Proto-Central Pacific *wola, from Proto-Oceanic *wola, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada (“to exist”).

• IPA^(key): /ᵐbu.la/

bula!

1. hello!
2. cheers!

bula

1. to live
2. to exist

bula

1. life
2. existence

Probably from a Celtic substrate language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷew- (“excrement; dung”) or Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”); compare bosta, bouta, busto.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbulɐ]

bula f (plural bulas)

1. (uncountable) dung, manure (of cattle)

   Synonym: bosta

2. platter, an individual cow dung

   Synonym: bosta

• buleira

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bóla and bola.

• bulda, buldra

• IPA^(key): [ˈbulɐ]

bula f (plural bulas)

1. bull (document)

• “bulla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bula” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bula” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bula” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bula” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

bula f (Latin spelling)

1. lady, madam

• bulisa

bula

1. abundant, plentiful
2. many

• 1853, Rosendo Salvado, The Salvado Memoirs (1977 edition edited by E. J. Storman)

From Spanish volar and Portuguese voar, Portuguese pular and Kabuverdianu bua.

bula

1. to fly
2. to jump

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bola and bolha.

• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bula f (plural bulas)

1. bull (document)
2. (pharmacy) medication package insert (document that provides information about a drug and its use)

   Synonym: leitura

• (Sursilvan) bella
• (Surmiran) pula

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bula f (plural bulas)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) butterfly, moth

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) spler
• (Rumantsch Grischun) tgiralla
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) tschitta
• (Puter) chüralla
• (Vallader) splerin

From Ottoman Turkish بولا‎ (bola, bula, “wife of one’s paternal uncle; lady, miss”).

• IPA^(key): /bûla/
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bȕla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ла)

1. (colloquial) a Muslim woman in harem pants or covered with a headscarf
2. (colloquial) a married woman

From Latin bulla (“bubble”).

• IPA^(key): /bǔla/
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bùla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̀ла)

1. (medicine) bull (blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion)
2. (anatomy) an empty space

From bȕla (the first etymology).

• IPA^(key): /bǔːla/
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

búla f (Cyrillic spelling бу́ла)

1. (Islam) Islamic religion teacher
2. (Islam) Islamic clerk or official

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla.

• IPA^(key): /bûla/
• Hyphenation: bu‧la

bȕla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ла)

1. bull (seal affixed to a document)
2. (by metonymy) charter with such bull
3. a box in which a seal is stored

• “bula” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “bula” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “bula” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “bula” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Bantu *-dùguda.

bula

1. to open

   Antonym: kwala

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bola and bolla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbula/ [ˈbu.la]
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: bu‧la

bula f (plural bulas)

1. bull (document)
2. strength
3. (obsolete) bubble

   Synonym: burbuja

• bula papal
• bula pontificia

• “bula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Likely from Middle Low German būle. Compare Dutch buil, German Beule, English boil. Uncertain original form, but ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell up”). Doublet of ballong, boll, bolster, bulle, bälg, and bölja.

bula c

1. bulge, bump (small, round, hard, tender swelling, especially one caused by a strike or blow)

• bulen
• bulna

• bula in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bula in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bula in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• bula in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

From Spanish bula (“bubble”). The word burbuja has since displaced bula (“bubble”) in Spanish, but the old meaning remained in Tagalog.

• Hyphenation: bu‧la
• IPA^(key): /buˈlaʔ/, [bʊˈlaʔ]

bulâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

1. foam; bubble; suds

   Synonyms: espuma, ampolya

2. foaming saliva caused by disease or great excitement

Possibly from Malay bolak (“prevarication”) or Chinese.

• Hyphenation: bu‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈbulaʔ/, [ˈbu.lɐʔ]

bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

1. lie; falsehood; fib

   Synonyms: kabulaanan, kasinungalingan

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulah, from Proto-Austronesian *buləS (“Shorea albus”).

• Hyphenation: bu‧la
• IPA^(key): /buˈla/, [bʊˈla]

bulá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

1. Philippine mahogany (Toona calantas)

   Synonym: kalantas

From Spanish bula (“bull”).

• Hyphenation: bu‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈbula/, [ˈbu.lɐ]

bula (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

1. bull (document)

• “bula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.la]

bula

1. a part, piece, component

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-bula^?

1. (transitive) to confess

   Synonym: -xela

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

bulá

1. boar