pulo

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Acehnese

Etymology

Akin to Malay pulau.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pulo

  1. island

Balinese

Romanization

pulo

  1. Romanization of ᬧᬸᬮᭀ

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *pujuq. Compare Malay pulau.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pu‧lo
  • IPA(key): /puˈloʔ/,

Noun

pulô

  1. island; isle; islet
    Synonym: isla

Etymology 2

Cebuano numbers (edit)
100[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → [a], [b]
1[a], [b]
    Cardinal: napulò, pulò
    Spanish cardinal: diyés
    Ordinal: ikanapulò, ikapulô
    Adverbial: makanapulò
    Distributive: napulò-napulò
    Fractional: sikanapulò

Short for napulo.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pu‧lo
  • IPA(key): /ˈpuloʔ/,

Numeral

pulò

  1. ten

Noun

pulò

  1. ten

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin pūlex.

Pronunciation

Noun

pulo (accusative singular pulon, plural puloj, accusative plural pulojn)

  1. flea
    La hundo havas pulojn.
    The dog has fleas.

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology 1

Deverbal from pular.

Pronunciation

Noun

pulo m (plural pulos)

  1. jump
    Synonyms: chimpo, salto
  2. thrust, impulse

Etymology 2

Verb

pulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pulir
  2. first-person singular present indicative of pular

References

Italian

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ulo
  • Hyphenation: pù‧lo

Noun

pulo m (plural puli)

  1. (regional) a sinkhole in the Apulia region, in Italy
    Synonyms: dolina, pulicchio

Anagrams

Javanese

Romanization

pulo

  1. Romanization of ꦥꦸꦭꦺꦴ

Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pulaw.

Noun

pulo

  1. island
    Synonyms: dīpa, dwīpa, gili, muhara, nūsa, pulo

Descendants

  • > Javanese: ꦥꦸꦭꦺꦴ (pulo) (inherited)

Further reading

  • "pulo" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ulu
  • Hyphenation: pu‧lo

Etymology 1

Deverbal from pular (“to jump”).

Noun

pulo m (plural pulos)

  1. jump
    Synonym: salto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pular
  2. first-person singular present indicative of polir

Spanish

Verb

pulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pulir

Sundanese

Romanization

pulo

  1. Romanization of ᮕᮥᮜᮧ

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpuloʔ/, (obsolete)
  • Hyphenation: pu‧lo

Etymology 1

Either from Proto-Philippine *pujuq. Compare Balinese ᬧᬸᬮᭀ (pulo), Javanese ꦥꦸꦭꦺꦴ (pulo), and Malay pulau.

Noun

pulô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. island (area of land completely surrounded by water).
    Synonym: isla
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puluq. Compare Malay puluh.

Noun

pulô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. Obsolete form of pu.
Usage notes
  • According to Fr. San José (1610) and Fr. Totanes (1850), pulo was exclusively used when counting in order from one to ten. When asked “How many are there?”, one cannot answer pulo, but only sangpuwo (obsolete variant of sampu).
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “pulo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1086.
  • 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
  • Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
  • Totanes, Sebastián de (1850) Arte de la lengua tagala: y Manual tagalog, para la administracion de los santos scramentos, que de orden de sus superiores compuso fray Sebastian de Totanes ...‎, Estab. tip. del Colegio de Sto. Tomás, á cargo de D.M. Ramirez
  • San José, Francisco de (1610) chapter 19, in Arte y reglas de la lengua Tagala‎, Thomas Pinpin, →ISBN, page 264
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