bulir

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese bolir, from Latin bullīre (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

• IPA^(key): /buˈliɾ/

bulir (first-person singular present bulo, third-person singular present bole, first-person singular preterite bulín, past participle bulido)
bulir (first-person singular present bulo, third-person singular present bole, first-person singular preterite bulim or buli, past participle bulido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (intransitive) to hurry; to purposely move around; to work

   Bule!

   Hurry!

   • c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: IEOPF, page 150:

     por que o curaçõ do ome anda sempre bolindo et pensando arte ata que ache carreyra per hu possa conprir aquelo que a sabor

     because the heart of man is always working and researching until it finds a way to accomplish what it longs for

2. (intransitive) to boil
3. (intransitive) to shake; to move

bulir m (plural bulires)

1. restlessness
   • c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 297:

     Et aly oyriades a bolta et os braados moy grandes, et o rreboluer et o bolir das gentes, et o rrinchar dos caualos, et o sonar dos cornos et dos anafijs, que esto era hũa grã maravilla.

     And being there you would hear the racket and the very high voices, and the uproar and restlessness of the people, and the neigh of the horses, and the sound of the horns and of the bugles, and all of this was a great wonder

• bulebule
• bulicio
• bulideiro
• bulidor
• buligar
• rebuldeiro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “bolir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “bolir” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bulir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bulir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “bulir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bulir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliʀ, compare Tetum fulin.

bulir

1. ear (of corn)

• bolir

From Old Galician-Portuguese bulir／bolir, from Latin bullīre (“to bubble, to boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

• Hyphenation: bu‧lir

bulir (first-person singular present bulo, first-person singular preterite buli, past participle bulido)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to fidget, to shake
2. (followed by com) to tease, to provoke, to pester

   Pare de bulir com seus colegas.

   Stop provoking your colleagues.

3. (informal) to work
4. to palpitate