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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
bulbo (accusative singular bulbon, plural bulboj, accusative plural bulbojn)
- bulb (of a plant, e.g. of an onion or tulip).
- onion (see also cepo)
Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Noun
bulbo m (plural bulbos)
- bulb (of a plant)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bulbus, from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bulbo m (plural bulbi)
- bulb
- ball, globe
- light bulb, light globe
- breakwater ((nautical) a low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship)
Latin
Noun
bulbō
- dative/ablative singular of bulbus
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bulbo m (plural bulbos)
- bulb (object that is spherical at one end and tapering at the other)
- (botany) bulb (bulb-shaped root portion of a plant)
- Synonym: bolbo
- the glass envelope of a light bulb
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbulbo/
- Rhymes: -ulbo
- Syllabification: bul‧bo
Noun
bulbo m (plural bulbos)
- (botany) bulb
- (electronics) vacuum tube
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