# bullir
## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin bullīre (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Cognate with Catalan bullir, Occitan bolhir and French bouillir

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈʎi(ɾ)/
* Rhymes: -i(ɾ)
* Syllabification: bu‧llir

### Verb

bullir
* to boil

#### Conjugation

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## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin bullīre (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Cognate with Aragonese bullir, Occitan bolhir and French bouillir

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [buˈʎi]
* IPA: (Valencia) [buˈʎiɾ]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -i(ɾ)
* Homophone: bullí (except Valencian)

### Verb

bullir (first-person singular present bullo, first-person singular preterite bullí, past participle bullit)
* to boil

#### Related terms

* bull
* bullabessa
* bullanga
* bullent
* bullícia
* bullida
* bullidera
* bullidor
* bulliment
* bullit
* bullor

### Further reading

* “bullir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “bullir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “bullir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “bullir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* ebullir

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin bullīre, present active participle of bulliō (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈʝiɾ/ [buˈʝiɾ]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /buˈʝiɾ/ [buˈʝiɾ]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /buˈʎiɾ/ [buˈʎiɾ]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /buˈʃiɾ/ [buˈʃiɾ]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /buˈʒiɾ/ [buˈʒiɾ]
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: bu‧llir

### Verb

bullir (first-person singular present bullo, first-person singular preterite bullí, past participle bullido)
* (intransitive) to boil (to begin to turn into a gas)
    Synonym: hervir
* (intransitive) to boil, to bubble, to churn (to be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce)
    Synonym: borbotear
* (intransitive) to bustle (to move busily and energetically)
* (figurative) to bubble, to bubble up, to well up (to churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface)
** 1888, Roberto Payró, Novelas y fantasías, page 190:Los muros de su espléndida casa le parecian estrechos para las nuevas ideas que bullían en su mente, que para su desarrollo necesitaban aire, espacio, luz...The walls of her magnificent house seemed to her too narrow for the new ideas that bubbled in her mind, which for their development needed air, space, light...
* (intransitive) to teem, to abound
    Synonyms: hervir, abundar
* (transitive) to move, to budge (part of one's body)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Derived terms

* bulla
* bullicio

#### Related terms

* rebullir

### Further reading

* “bullir”, 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