# bula
## Albanian
### Noun

bula
* inflection of bulë:
** definite nominative singular
** indefinite nominative/accusative plural

## Brunei Malay
### Etymology

Compare Malay bola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bula/
* Hyphenation: bu‧la

### Noun

bula
* ball (spherical object for playing games)
* (colloquial) football (UK), soccer (US)

#### Derived terms

* bula sipak (“football”)

## Cebuano
### Alternative forms

* buwa

### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *bujeq (via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bujeq).

### Noun

bulà (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)
* bubble
* froth; foam
* lather
* coconut apple; coconut embryo

### Verb

bulâ (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)
* to bubble
* to lather; to cover with suds; to lather up
* to form or emit foam
* to spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth
* to create froth in (a liquid)

### Adjective

bulâ (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)
* bubbly

### References

* ↑ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Chamorro
### Adjective

bula
* plenty; a lot

## Chavacano
### Etymology

From Tagalog bula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈlaʔ/, [buˈlaʔ]
* Hyphenation: bu‧la

### Noun

bulâ
* (Ternateño, Zamboangueño) bubble
    Synonym: (Caviteño) espuma

## Fijian

* This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.

### Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *wola, from Proto-Oceanic *wola, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada (“to exist”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ᵐbu.la/

### Interjection

bula!
* hello!
* cheers!

### Verb

bula
* to live
* to exist

### Noun

bula
* life
* existence

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbulɐ]

### Etymology 1

Probably from a Celtic substrate language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷew- (“excrement; dung”) or Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”); compare bosta, bouta, busto.

#### Noun

bula f (plural bulas)
* (uncountable) dung, manure (of cattle)
    Synonym: bosta
* platter, an individual cow dung
    Synonym: bosta

##### Derived terms

* buleira

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bóla and bola.

#### Alternative forms

* bulda, buldra

#### Noun

bula f (plural bulas)
* bull (document)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

bula
* inflection of bulir:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “bulla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bula”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bula”, 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), “bula”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bula”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the archaic bulya (“Turkish woman; concubine”), from Serbo-Croatian бу̏ла / bȕla (“a Muslim woman in harem pants or covered with a headscarf; a married woman”), from Ottoman Turkish بولا (bola, bula, “wife of one’s paternal uncle; lady, miss”). Alternatively, borrowed from Romani bulǎ, plural of bul (“ass, buttocks”) (compare Romanian bul (“ass, buttocks”) (slang)), from Sanskrit बुलि (buli, “vagina, anus”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbulɒ]
* Hyphenation: bu‧la
* Rhymes: -lɒ

### Noun

bula (plural bulák)
* (slang, somewhat vulgar) (woman's) ass, buttocks or vulva
* (slang, somewhat vulgar) woman, girl

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)
* ↑ bulya in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
* ↑ Mátyás Arató (2016) “A romani és beás eredetű szavak alapkérdései és alapproblémái a magyar nyelvben”, in Anyanyelvünk évszázadai, volume 2, Budapest: ELTE Magyar Nyelvtörténeti, Szociolingvisztikai, Dialektológiai Tanszék, →ISBN, page 75

### Further reading

* bula in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Iban
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bulaʔ/

### Verb

bula
* to lie

#### Derived terms

* pemula

## Ladino
### Noun

bula f
* lady, madam

#### Synonyms

* bulisa

## Nyunga
### Adjective

bula
* abundant, plentiful
* many

### References

* 1853, Rosendo Salvado, The Salvado Memoirs (1977 edition edited by E. J. Storman)

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.lɑ/

### Noun

bula m
* bull

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Related terms

* bulluc

#### Descendants

* Middle English: bole, bule, bul, bolle, boule, bool, boole
** English: bull
** Scots: bul, bull

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish volar and Portuguese voar, Portuguese pular and Kabuverdianu bua.

### Verb

bula
* to fly
* to jump

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French boule. First attested in 1613.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ula
* Syllabification: bu‧la

### Noun

bula f
* boule (one of the bowls used in the French game of boules)
* protuberance (bulge of some surface)
    Synonyms: wybrzuszenie, wypukłość

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Jadwiga Chotkowska (19.08.2010) “BULA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

### Further reading

* bula in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* bula in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “bula”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “bula”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bula”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 232

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bola and bolha.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.lɐ/
* Hyphenation: bu‧la

#### Noun

bula f (plural bulas)
* bull (document)
* (pharmacy) medication package insert (document that provides information about a drug and its use)
    Synonym: leitura

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

bula
* inflection of bulir:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* bella (Sursilvan)
* pula (Surmiran)

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

bula f (plural bulas)
* (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) butterfly, moth

#### Synonyms

* (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) spler
* (Rumantsch Grischun) tgiralla
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) tschitta
* (Puter) chüralla
* (Vallader) splerin

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بولا (bola, bula, “wife of one’s paternal uncle; lady, miss”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bûla/
* Hyphenation: bu‧la

#### Noun

bȕla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ла)
* (colloquial) a Muslim woman in harem pants or covered with a headscarf
* (colloquial) a married woman

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bǔla/
* Hyphenation: bu‧la

#### Noun

bùla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̀ла)
* (medicine) bull (blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion)
* (anatomy) an empty space

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

From bȕla (the first etymology).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bǔːla/
* Hyphenation: bu‧la

#### Noun

búla f (Cyrillic spelling бу́ла)
* (Islam) Islamic religion teacher
* (Islam) Islamic clerk or official

##### Declension
### Etymology 4

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bûla/
* Hyphenation: bu‧la

#### Noun

bȕla f (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ла)
* bull (seal affixed to a document)
* (by metonymy) charter with such bull
* a box in which a seal is stored

##### Declension
### References

* “bula”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
* “bula”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
* “bula”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
* “bula”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dùguda.

### Verb

bula
* to open
    Antonym: kwala

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bola and bolla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbula/ [ˈbu.la]
* Rhymes: -ula
* Syllabification: bu‧la

### Noun

bula f (plural bulas)
* bull (document)
* strength
* (obsolete) bubble
    Synonym: burbuja

#### Derived terms

* bula de la cruzada
* bula de la santa cruzada
* bula papal
* bula pontificia

### Further reading

* “bula”, 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

## Swedish
### Etymology

Likely from Middle Low German būle, from or related to Proto-Germanic *būlǭ (“swelling, bump”), with an uncertain original form, but ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell up”).
Doublet of ballong, boll, bolster, bulle, bälg, and bölja. Compare Dutch buil, German Beule, English boil.

### Noun

bula c
* a bulge, a bump (small, round, hard, tender swelling, especially one caused by a strike or blow)
    Jag slog i huvudet i skåpdörren och fick en bulaI hit my head on the cabinet door and got a bump
* a bulge (smooth outward bend more generally, due to internal pressure or the like)
    Folk gav honom komplimanger för hans stora bulaPeople complimented him on his big bulge

#### Related terms

* bulen
* bulna

#### See also

* bukta

### References

* bula in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bula in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bula in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* bula in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Derivation unknown. Possibly either from the following:
* From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *budaq
* From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bujəq, from Proto-Austronesian *bujəq,
* Borrowed from Spanish bula (“bubble”). The word burbuja has since displaced bula (“bubble”) in Spanish, then the old meaning could have remained in Tagalog if borrowed.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /buˈlaʔ/ [bʊˈlaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: bu‧la

#### Noun

bulâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)
* foam; bubble; suds
    Synonyms: espuma, ampolya, (obsolete) subo
* foaming saliva caused by disease or great excitement

##### Derived terms

* bulantubig
* bulang-gugo
* bulangsagwan
* bumula
* mabula
* magbula
* magsabula
* may-sabula
* pabulain
* pampabula
* parang bula
* sabula

### Etymology 2

Possibly from Malay bolak (“prevarication”). Alternatively, possibly from Hokkien 誣賴 / 诬赖 (bû-lōa, “to falsely incriminate”), according to Manuel (1948). Compare Iban bula.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbulaʔ/ [ˈbuː.lɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -ulaʔ
* Syllabification: bu‧la

#### Noun

bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)
* lie; falsehood; fib
    Synonyms: kabulaanan, kasinungalingan

##### Derived terms

* bula-bulaan
* bulaan
* di-mapabubulaanan
* di-nagkabula
* kabulaanan
* magbulaan
* magkabula
* magpabulaan
* mambula
* pabulaan
* pabulaanan
* pagbubulaan
* pagbulaanan

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulah, from Proto-Austronesian *buləS (“Shorea albus”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /buˈla/ [bʊˈla]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: bu‧la

#### Noun

bulá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)
* Philippine mahogany (Toona calantas)
    Synonym: kalantas

### Etymology 4

Borrowed from Spanish bula (“bull”), from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal, sealed document; bull”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, rounded object”). Doublet of bola.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbula/ [ˈbuː.lɐ]
* Rhymes: -ula
* Syllabification: bu‧la

#### Noun

bula (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)
* bull (document)

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbulaʔ/ [ˈbuː.lɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -ulaʔ
* Syllabification: bu‧la

#### Noun

bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ) (obsolete)
* scaring of crows

##### Derived terms

* bulain
* magbula
* mamula

##### See also

* bugaw
* bulaga
* so

#### Interjection

bulà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ) (obsolete)
* word used for scaring crows away: shoo

### References

* ↑ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*budaq₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
* ↑ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bujeq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
* ↑ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buleS”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

### Further reading

* “bula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 304: “Eſpantar) Bula [(pp)] cueruos repitiendo eſta palabra”
** page 308: “Eſpuma) Bula (pc) T. dela olla o de otra coſa”
* 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 18

### Anagrams

* baul

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbu.la]

### Noun

bula
* a part, piece, component

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Xhosa
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

-bula$^?$
* (transitive) to confess
    Synonym: -xela

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Yogad
### Noun

bulá
* boar