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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
bulo (accusative singular bulon, plural buloj, accusative plural bulojn)
- ball (of dough, dirt, snow, etc.)
- clod
Derived terms
Galician
Verb
bulo
- first-person singular present indicative of bulir
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto bulo, French boule, Spanish bola.
Pronunciation
Noun
bulo (plural buli)
- ball
- bubble
Derived terms
See also
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbu.lo/
- Rhymes: -ulo
- Hyphenation: bù‧lo
Noun
bulo m (plural buli)
- Alternative form of bullo
Anagrams
Lindu
Noun
bulo
- funnel
Makasar
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq.
Pronunciation
Noun
bulo (Lontara spelling ᨅᨘᨒᨚ)
- bamboo
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbu.lɔ/
- Rhymes: -ulɔ
- Syllabification: bu‧lo
Noun
bulo f
- vocative singular of bula
Portuguese
Verb
bulo
- first-person singular present indicative of bulir
Spanish
Etymology
Perhaps from Caló bul (“crap, nonsense”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbulo/
- Rhymes: -ulo
- Syllabification: bu‧lo
Noun
bulo m (plural bulos)
- (Spain) canard, hoax (false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so)
- Synonyms: filfa, hoax
- 2015, Eva Aladro Vico, Graciela Padilla Castillo, Aplicaciones actuales de la comunicación e interacción digitales, ACCI (Asoc. Cultural y Científica Iberoameric.) (→ISBN), page 426:
Debemos, sin embargo, establecer una distinción entre todos los anteriores y el engaño o bulo, cuya voz inglesa, “hoax” se utiliza en España, de forma concreta, para definir aquellos fraudes informativos que se transmiten por Internet.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology 1
Compare Kapampangan bulu and Remontado Agta bul-u.
Pronunciation
Noun
bulô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)
- calf of cattle (such as cows, carabaos, etc.)
- Synonyms: bisiro, guya
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (“body hair; fur; feather”). Compare Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦸ (wulu) and Malay bulu. For the figurative sense, compare Spanish pelo (“hair; filament; little importance”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bulo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)
- silky floss or hair covering (on leaves, fruits, stem of plants, etc.)
- fine hairy growth (on wings of butterflies, bodies of some worms, etc.)
- (figurative, obsolete) small amount of value, worth, importance
- Synonyms: saysay, halaga, kahulugan, kahalagahan, kabuluhan, kuwenta, importansiya, (dated) kasaysayan
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “bulo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 158.
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 107: “Beçerro) Bol o (pc) hijo de baca de carabao o yegua”
- page 107: “Bello) Bolo (pp) aſſi del cuerpo como del rroſtro o manos”
- page 473: “Pelo) Bolo (pp) del cuerpo o manos, valan cabolohan, abs) no bale vn pelo, valan cabocabolohan, menos bale que vn pelo, mabolo, ad) coſa de mucho pelo ”
- page 573: “Ternera) Bol o (pc) baca niña”
Anagrams
West Makian
Etymology
Cognate with Ternate budo (“white”).
Pronunciation
Verb
bulo
- (stative) to be white
Conjugation
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics
Wolof
Etymology
From French bleu.
Pronunciation
Verb
bulo
- to be blue