# boli
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbəʊlaɪ/
* IPA: /ˈbəʊli/
** Audio (US):(file)

#### Noun

boli
* (nonstandard) plural of bolus

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbəʊli/
** Audio (US):(file)

#### Noun

boli (plural bolis)
* Clipping of stromboli.

### Anagrams

* boil, lobi, biol., biol, Bilo, bilo

## Atong (India)
### Etymology

From Bengali বলি (boli), from Sanskrit बलि (bali).

### Noun

boli
* offering to a spirit

### References

* van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɔ.li]

### Noun

boli m (plural bolis)
* (colloquial) Clipping of bolígraf.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Italian bollire. Etymologically related to buljono.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈboli]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oli
* Hyphenation: bo‧li

### Verb

boli (present bolas, past bolis, future bolos, conditional bolus, volitive bolu)
* (intransitive) to boil
    La akvo bolas. ― The water is boiling.
    Ni uzos bolantan akvon por kuiri vespermanĝon. ― We'll use boiling water to cook dinner.

#### Derived terms

* boligi

## Faroese
### Verb

boli
* first-person singular present of bola

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔːlɪ/
* Rhymes: -ɔːlɪ

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse boli, from Proto-Germanic *bulô.

#### Noun

boli m (genitive singular bola, nominative plural bolar)
* bull
    Synonyms: naut, tarfur, tuddi

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

boli
* indefinite accusative plural of bolur

## Italian
### Noun

boli m
* plural of bolo

### Anagrams

* libo, lobi

## Latvian
### Noun

boli f
* accusative/instrumental singular of bole

## Lower Sorbian
### Verb

boli
* Superseded spelling of bóli.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔ.li/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔli
* Syllabification: bo‧li

### Verb

boli
* third-person singular present of boleć

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [bolʲ]

#### Noun

boli f pl
* plural of boală

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic болѣти (bolěti), from Proto-Slavic *bolěti. By surface analysis, boală +‎ -i.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [boˈli]

#### Verb

a boli (third-person singular present bolește, past participle bolit) 4th conjugation
* (colloquial) to ail

##### Conjugation
## Serbo-Croatian
### Participle

boli (Cyrillic spelling боли)
* masculine plural active past participle of bosti

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɔʎi]

### Participle

boli
* plural l-participle of byť

## Spanish
### Etymology

Clipping of bolígrafo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboli/ [ˈbo.li]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -oli
* Syllabification: bo‧li

### Noun

boli m (plural bolis)
* (Spain, informal) Clipping of bolígrafo (“pen”).
* (Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua) freezie
    Synonyms: chupete, marciano

#### Derived terms

* donde Cristo perdió el boli

### Further reading

* “boli”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “boli”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010