bilo

bilo (plural bilos)

1. Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.

• Boli, boil, lobi, biol., boli, biol

• IPA^(key): /biˈlo/
• Hyphenation: bi‧lo

biló f 

1. crescent moon

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bilo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɪlo
• Homophone: bylo

bilo

1. neuter singular past active participle of bít

• IPA^(key): /ˈbilo/
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: bi‧lo

bilo (accusative singular bilon, plural biloj, accusative plural bilojn)

1. a bill of exchange by which the named person must pay a fixed amount to the person named
2. a proposed law, bill

• ĉeko
• kambio

ReVo:bil

• IPA^(key):

bilo f

1. vocative singular of bilă

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bidlo.

• IPA^(key): /bîlo/
• Hyphenation: bi‧lo

bȉlo n (Cyrillic spelling би̏ло)

1. pulse, heartbeat
2. a shallow-sloped crest (of a mountain)

• Čolović, Gvozden R. (1969) Vojna topografija, Beograd: Vojnogeografski institut

From biti (literally “to be”).

• IPA^(key): /bǐːlo/

bílo (Cyrillic spelling би́ло)

1. neuter singular active past participle of biti

bílo (Cyrillic spelling би́ло)

1. generalization particle used before another word to express indifference in regard to choice or to form a disjunctive adverbial; ever, any, whether, no matter (lit. be it this or that)

   Reci kad i kamo da dođem i doći ću - bilo kad, bilo gdje! ― Tell me when and where to come and I will - wherever, whenever!

   Bilo danas, bilo sutra, u bilo koje doba dana. ― Tomorrow or today, no matter the time of day.

   Bilo sutra sunčano ili kišno, moramo počistiti vrt. ― No matter if tomorrow is sunny or rainy, we have to clean up the garden.

   Ići ćemo, bilo da ti se to sviđa ili ne! ― We are going, whether you like it or not!

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /biˈlo/
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bi‧lo

biló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)

1. cylindrical roll (of paper, cloth, etc.)

   Synonyms: balumbon, palumpon, kartutso, rolyo

2. pill; pill-shaped roll

   Synonyms: bilog, bilot, pilon, pilduras

3. act of shaping or making something into a small, cylindrical roll

   Synonyms: rolyo, pagrorolyo, lulon, paglulon, paglululon

4. (obsolete) mixed with each other

biló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)

1. rolled in the form of a small cylinder

   Synonyms: nakarolyo, nakabalumbon

Possibly from Hokkien either:

• 米粩 (bí-láu, “confection made from rice”), according to Manuel (1948).
• 米糯 (bí lō, literally “glutinous rice”), according to Chan-Yap (1980).

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /biˈlo/ (“act of shaping into balls”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -o
  • IPA^(key): /ˈbilo/ (“ball-shaped object”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: bi‧lo

biló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)

1. act of shaping kneaded flour or rice flour into ball-shaped lumps

bilo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)

1. (obsolete) any ball-shaped object (such as lumps of wax, lard, etc.)

• “bilo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• “bilo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 17

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