babul

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed both from French baboul and from Hindi बबूल (babūl, “babul tree”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit वव्वोल (vavvola, “acacia”).

Pronunciation

Noun

babul (plural babuls)

  1. A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.
    • 1884, Rudyard Kipling, The Moon of Other Days:
      In place of Putney's golden gorse / The sickly babul blooms.

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Volapük

Etymology

From a contraction of balsebalul ( = bals (“ten, now deg”) +‎ e (“and”) +‎ bal (“one”) +‎ -ul (“(bound morpheme for) month (< mul)”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

babul (nominative plural babuls)

  1. (obsolete) November (the eleventh (11th) month of the year)

Usage notes

  • This older term has been replaced by novul (“November”).

Declension

declension of babul
singular plural
nominative babul babuls
genitive babula babulas
dative babule babules
accusative babuli babulis
vocative 1 o babul! o babuls!
predicative 2 babulu babulus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia