# bulir
## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈliɾ/

### Verb

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)
* (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 saborbecause the heart of man is always working and researching until it finds a way to accomplish what it longs for
* (intransitive) to boil
* (intransitive) to shake; to move

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

### Noun

bulir m (plural bulires)
* 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

#### Related terms

* bulebule
* bulicio
* bulideiro
* bulidor
* buligar
* rebuldeiro

### References

* 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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

bulir
* ear (the fruiting body of a grain plant.)
* (botany) spike (A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis)

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* bolir

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /buˈli(ʁ)/ [buˈli(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /buˈli(ʁ)/ [buˈli(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /buˈli(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /buˈli(ʁ)/ [buˈli(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /buˈli(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /buˈliɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /buˈliɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /buˈli.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: bu‧lir

### Verb

bulir (first-person singular present bulo, first-person singular preterite buli, past participle bulido)
* (transitive, intransitive) to fidget, to shake
* (followed by com) to tease, to provoke, to pester
    Pare de bulir com seus colegas.Stop provoking your colleagues.
* (informal) to work
* to palpitate