# bilo
## English
### Noun

bilo (plural bilos)
* Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.

### Anagrams

* Boli, boil, lobi, biol., boli, biol

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biˈlo/ [bɪˈlɔ]
* Hyphenation: bi‧lo

### Noun

biló f
* crescent moon

#### Declension
### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bilo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɪlo]
* Rhymes: -ɪlo
* Homophone: bylo

### Participle

bilo
* neuter singular past active participle of bít

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbilo]
* Rhymes: -ilo
* Hyphenation: bi‧lo

### Noun

bilo (accusative singular bilon, plural biloj, accusative plural bilojn)
* a bill of exchange by which the named person must pay a fixed amount to the person named
* a proposed law, bill

#### Synonyms

* ĉeko
* kambio

#### References

ReVo:bil

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbilo]

### Noun

bilo f
* vocative singular of bilă

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bidlo.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bîlo/
* Hyphenation: bi‧lo

#### Noun

bȉlo n (Cyrillic spelling би̏ло)
* pulse, heartbeat
* a shallow-sloped crest (of a mountain)

##### Declension
#### References

* Čolović, Gvozden R. (1969) Vojna topografija, Beograd: Vojnogeografski institut

### Etymology 2

From biti (literally “to be”).

#### Participle

bilo (Cyrillic spelling било)
* neuter singular active past participle of biti

#### Particle

bilo (Cyrillic spelling било)
* generalization particle used before another word to express indifference in regard to choice or to form a disjunctive adverbial; ever, any, whether, no matter (lit. be it this or that)
    Reci kad i kamo da dođem i doći ću - bilo kad, bilo gdje! ― Tell me when and where to come and I will - wherever, whenever!
    Bilo danas, bilo sutra, u bilo koje doba dana. ― Tomorrow or today, no matter the time of day.
    Bilo sutra sunčano ili kišno, moramo počistiti vrt. ― No matter if tomorrow is sunny or rainy, we have to clean up the garden.
    Ići ćemo, bilo da ti se to sviđa ili ne! ― We are going, whether you like it or not!

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /biˈlo/ [bɪˈlo]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: bi‧lo

#### Noun

biló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)
* cylindrical roll (of paper, cloth, etc.)
    Synonyms: balumbon, palumpon, kartutso, rolyo
* pill; pill-shaped roll
    Synonyms: bilog, bilot, pilon, pilduras
* act of shaping or making something into a small, cylindrical roll
    Synonyms: rolyo, pagrorolyo, lulon, paglulon, paglululon
* (obsolete) mixed with each other

##### Derived terms

* bilo-bilo
* biluhan
* biluhin
* binilo
* bumilo
* halubilo
* halubiluhan
* humalubilo
* ibilo
* kahalubilo
* magbilo
* makihalubilo
* pagbiluhan
* pakikihalubilo
* pambilo

#### Adjective

biló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)
* rolled in the form of a small cylinder
    Synonyms: nakarolyo, nakabalumbon

### Etymology 2

Possibly from Hokkien either:
* 米粩 (bí-láu, “confection made from rice”), according to Manuel (1948).
* 米糯 (bí lō, literally “glutinous rice”), according to Chan-Yap (1980).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /biˈlo/ [bɪˈlo] (“act of shaping into balls”, noun)
*** Rhymes: -o
** IPA: /ˈbilo/ [ˈbiː.lo] (“ball-shaped object”, noun)
*** Rhymes: -ilo
* Syllabification: bi‧lo

#### Noun

biló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)
* act of shaping kneaded flour or rice flour into ball-shaped lumps

##### Derived terms

* bilo-bilo
* biluhin
* ibilo
* magbilo

#### Noun

bilo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)
* (obsolete) any ball-shaped object (such as lumps of wax, lard, etc.)

#### See also

* bilo-bilo

### Further reading

* “bilo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* “bilo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137
* Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 17

### Anagrams

* libo