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Alangan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulán

  1. moon

Azerbaijani

Participle

bulan

  1. subject non-past participle of bulmaq

Bakung

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Balinese

Romanization

bulan

  1. Romanization of ᬩᬸᬮᬦ᭄.

Baram Kayan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Bikol Central

bulan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbulan/,
  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan

Noun

búlan (Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Bintulu

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Brooke's Point Palawano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bulan (compare Malay bulan), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bulan/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. month (period into which a year is divided)

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Pronunciation

Noun

búlan (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

  1. Moon
  2. moon of other planets
  3. month

Verb

búlan (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

  1. to hire as a servant

Quotations

Derived terms

Derived terms

References

  • Fr. Juan Felis de la Encarnación (1851) Diccionario bisaya-español‎ (overall work in Cebuano and Spanish), Amigos del País, page 69
  • John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan‎ (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Dairi Batak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Dupaningan Agta

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Galician

Verb

bulan

  1. inflection of bulir:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Higaonon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

búlan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Ibaloi

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbulan/,
  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan

Noun

bulan (Kur-itan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Malay bulan, from Classical Malay bulan, from Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Doublet of rembulan and wulan. The sense “any natural satellite of a planet” is a semantic loan from Dutch maan (“moon”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbulan/,
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -lan, -an, -n
  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan

Noun

bulan (first-person possessive bulanku, second-person possessive bulanmu, third-person possessive bulannya)

  1. moon:
    1. largest natural satellite of planet Earth.
      Pada tahun 1969, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin menjadi manusia pertama yang menginjakkan kakinya di permukaan Bulan.
      In 1969, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first person to walk the Moon's surface.
    2. any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet.
      Bulan Titan yang mengorbit planet Saturnus memiliki kandungan hidrokarbon yang signifikan.
      The moon Titan, that orbits Saturn, has significant numbers of hydrocarbon.
  2. month (period into which a year is divided)
    Kami harus membayar tagihan air setiap bulan.
    We have to pay the water bill every month.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

Javanese

Alternative forms

Noun

bulan

  1. Clipping of rembulan.

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbulən/,
  • Hyphenation: bu‧lan

Noun

búlan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Derived terms

Karo Batak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Kavalan

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon

Kayapa Kallahan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Kelabit

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Limos Kalinga

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Malay

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Etymology

From Classical Malay bulan, from Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as (vulan).

Pronunciation

Noun

bulan (Jawi spelling بولن, plural bulan-bulan, informal 1st possessive bulanku, 2nd possessive bulanmu, 3rd possessive bulannya)

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)
    Aku pergi ke sana dua kali untuk setiap bulan.
    I go there twice for every month.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: bulan

References

  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “بولن bulan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 132
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “bulan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 161-2

Further reading

Masbatenyo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Matigsalug Manobo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. month
  2. moon

Ngaju

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. month (period into which a year is divided)

Descendants

Ratagnon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Remontado Agta

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

búlan

  1. moon
  2. month

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani bul (“buttocks”).

Noun

bulan n (plural bulane)

  1. (slang) good luck
  2. (slang) leg

Declension

Declension of bulan
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) bulan bulanul (niște) bulani bulanii
genitive/dative (unui) bulan bulanului (unor) bulani bulanilor
vocative bulanule bulanilor

Sasak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Sundanese

Romanization

bulan

  1. Romanization of ᮘᮥᮜᮔ᮪

Swedish

Noun

bulan

  1. definite singular of bula

Tagalog

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Cebuano bulan from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Proposed by Eusebio Daluz by the 20th century to use the Visayan word instead of Tagalog buwan (“moon; month”) to distinguish “moon” and “month” to have equivalents for Spanish luna (“moon”) and Spanish mes (“month”). Doublet of buwan.

Pronunciation

Noun

bulan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔) (neologism)

  1. moon
    Synonyms: buwan, (rare) luna

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • del Rosario, Gonsalo (1969) Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino [Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino] (overall work in English and Tagalog), Manila: National Book Store, Inc., →LCCN, →OL
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  • Lope K. Santos (1938) Gabriel A. Bernardo, transl., Sources and means for further enrichment of Tagalog as our national language‎, Manila : University of the Philippines, pages 123–124

Tausug

bulan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Toba Batak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
  2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
  3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Turkish

Verb

bulan

  1. imperfect participle of bulmak

Yakan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulan

  1. moon
  2. month

Yogad

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

bulán

  1. moon
  2. month
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