# bulle
## English
### Noun

bulle (plural bulles)
* Obsolete form of bull.

### Anagrams

* Buell

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French bulle, from Old French bulle, borrowed from Latin bulla. Doublet of the inherited boule.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /byl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bulle f (plural bulles)
* bubble
** 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 93:Chaque souvenir est piégé. Une couverture qu’il avait gardée bien tirée sur l’angoisse glisse — la peau est mise en contact. Sa bulle était étanche, rassurante et bien équipée. Il vivait au formol, dans un monde qui s’est écroulé — accroché à des gens qui ne sont plus là.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* speech bubble, thought bubble

#### Derived terms

* niveau à bulle
* papier bulle
* tirer la bulle
* tri à bulles

### Verb

bulle
* inflection of buller:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “bulle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Verb

bulle
* inflection of bullar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Middle English
### Noun

bulle
* papal bull
** 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio lxx, recto, column 2:And who ſo fyndeth hym out of ſuche blame / Commeth up and offre in goddes name / And I assoyle hym by the auctorite / Such as by bulle was graunted to me.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French bulle, borrowed from Latin bulla.

### Noun

bulle f (plural bulles)
* (Ancient Rome) bulla (amulet)
* seal; bull (stamp in wax of authentification)
* a letter sealed with a bull

#### Derived terms

* bullette

#### Descendants

* French: bulle

### References

* bulle on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈpuːlle/

### Verb

būlle
* inflection of buollit:
** first-person dual present indicative
** third-person plural past indicative

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* boille, boule, boulle, burle

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bulla. Doublet of bille; compare also bole.

### Noun

bulle oblique singular, f (oblique plural bulles, nominative singular bulle, nominative plural bulles)
* seal (a stamp in wax to seal a letter)
* a letter sealed with a bull (seal)

#### Descendants

* Middle French: bulle
** French: bulle
* → Middle English: bulle
** English: bull
** Scots: bull, bul

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (bulle, supplement)
* bulle on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

## Spanish
### Verb

bulle
* inflection of bullir:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish bulle (“small round drinking cup”), from Old Norse bolli. See also bolle. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell up; round object”). Possible doublet of boll, bula, and bål. See also bälg and bölja for an extended form of the root.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²bɵlɛ/
* Rhymes: -²ɵlɛ

### Noun

bulle c
* a bun, a small bread roll
* (usually in compounds) a ball-shaped or thick round piece (of some (ground-up or shredded) food)
* (slang) a taxi, a cab

#### Usage notes

Usually sweetened outside of some compounds.

#### Derived terms

* bullbak
* bullfest
* bullfitta
* bullig
* bullighet
* bullängd
* fiskbulle
* kanelbulle
* krämbulle
* köttbulle
* potatisbulle
* rågbulle
* vetebulle

#### Descendants

* → Finnish: pulla
** → English: pulla
* → Finnish: pullo

### References

* bulle in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bulle in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bulle in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* bulle in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
* bulle in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L