# bulan
## Alangan
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulán
* moon

## Azerbaijani
### Participle

bulan
* subject non-past participle of bulmaq

## Bakung
### Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Balinese
### Romanization

bulan
* Romanization of ᬩᬸᬮᬦ᭄.

## Baram Kayan
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.l̪an̪]
* Hyphenation: bu‧lan

### Noun

búlan (Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

#### Derived terms

* bulan-bulan
* bulanan
* bulanon

#### Related terms

* lakad-bulan

#### See also

* aldaw
* banaag
* dulom
* saldang
* silaw
* sirang

## Bintulu
### Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Brooke's Point Palawano
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon
* month

## Brunei Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bulan (compare Malay bulan), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bulan/
* Hyphenation: bu‧lan

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Cebuano
### Alternative forms

* bolan — archaic spelling
* buwan — dialectal

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Pronunciation 1

* (Standard Cebuano) IPA: /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.l̪ɐn̪]
* (l-eliding dialects) IPA: /ˈbuwan/ [ˈbu.wɐn̪]
* Hyphenation: bu‧lan

#### Noun

bulan (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)
* the Moon
** moon of other planets
* month

##### Derived terms

* binulan (“monthly; to do something monthly”)
* binulanan (“household help”)
* buhi ang bulan (“first day of the first quarter”)
* bulan-bulan (“every month”)
* bulanbulan (“tarpon; moon shell with edible flesh”)
* bulanon (“moonlight; having a weak eyesight”)
* dulom nga bulan (“third quarter, waning gibbous”)
* haya ang bulan (“horizontal crescent moon”)
* himatayon nga bulan (“third quarter, waning crescent”)
* katin ang bulan (“waning half-moon”)
* lakad ang bulan (“second quarter, waxing gibbous”)
* lunod ang bulan (“new moon”)
* pabulan (“to hire as a servant”)
* patay ang bulan (“new moon”)
* payong sa bulan (“visible ring around the moon”)
* pilok nga bulan (“third quarter, waning gibbous”)
* subang ang bulan (“first quarter, waxing crescent”)
* udtong bulan (“waxing half-moon”)
* udtong lunod ang bulan (“waning half-moon”)

### Pronunciation 2

* (Standard Cebuano) IPA: /buˈlan/ [bʊˈl̪an̪]
* (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) IPA: /buˈan/ [ˈbwan̪]

#### Verb

bulán (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)
* to hire a servant

##### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:bulan.

### References

* Fr. Juan Felis de la Encarnación (1851) Diccionario bisaya-español‎ (overall work in Cebuano and Spanish), Amigos del País, page 69
* John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan‎ (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

## Dairi Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Dupaningan Agta
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon
* month

## Galician
### Verb

bulan
* inflection of bulir:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

## Hanunoo
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lɐn]
* Rhymes: -ulan
* Syllabification: bu‧lan

### Noun

bulan (Hanunoo spelling ᜪᜳᜮᜨ᜴)
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

#### See also

* Bulan
* bulan-bulan
* kanaw

### Further reading

* Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 89

## Higaonon
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

búlan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Ibaloi
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon
* month

## Iban
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Ilocano
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lan]
* Hyphenation: bu‧lan

### Noun

bulan (Kur-itan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* boelan (1901–1947)

### Etymology

Inherited from Malay bulan, from Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Doublet of rembulan and wulan. The sense “any natural satellite of a planet” is a semantic loan from Dutch maan (“moon”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lan]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ulan
* Syllabification: bu‧lan

### Noun

bulan (plural bulan-bulan)
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
    Bulan malam ini sangat bulat. ― The moon is very round tonight.
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
    Bulan Titan yang mengorbit planet Saturnus memiliki kandungan hidrokarbon yang signifikan.The moon Titan, that orbits Saturn, has significant numbers of hydrocarbon.
* month (period into which a year is divided)
    Kami harus membayar tagihan air setiap bulan.We have to pay the water bill every month.

#### Synonyms

See Thesaurus:bulan.

#### Derived terms

* berbulan
* berbulan-bulan
* bulan-bulanan
* bulanan
* membulan
* membulan-bulani
* bulan bahasa dan sastra
* bulan baru
* bulan bintang
* bulan biru
* bulan darah
* bulan dimakan Rahu
* bulan gelap
* bulan gerhana
* bulan haji
* bulan kapangan
* bulan kembar
* bulan kesiangan
* bulan madu
* bulan mati
* bulan muda
* bulan panen
* bulan penuh
* bulan puasa
* bulan purnama
* bulan Ruwah
* bulan sabit
* bulan sabit baru
* bulan sabit tua
* bulan suci
* bulan Sura
* bulan surut
* bulan susut
* bulan timbul
* bulan tua

#### Related terms

* Bulan

### Further reading

* “bulan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

bulan
* Romanization of ꦧꦸꦭꦤ꧀

## Kapampangan
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbulən/ [ˈbuː.lən]
* Hyphenation: bu‧lan

### Noun

búlan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

#### Derived terms

* bulan-bulan
* bulanan
* pabulan
* telabulan

## Karo Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Kavalan
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon

## Kayapa Kallahan
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon
* month

## Kelabit
### Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Limos Kalinga
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon
* month

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as [script needed] (vulan).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [bulan]
* Rhymes: -ulan, -lan, -an
* Audio (Malaysia):(file)

### Noun

bulan (Jawi spelling بولن, plural bulan-bulan, informal 1st possessive bulanku, 2nd possessive bulanmu, 3rd possessive bulannya)
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)
    Aku pergi ke sana dua kali untuk setiap bulan.I go there twice for every month.

#### Synonyms

* (moon):
** alkamar / القمر
** cendera / چندرا
** kamar / قمر
** rembulan / رمبولن

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “sun”):
** matahari / ماتاهاري

#### Derived terms

* berbulan
* berbulan-bulan
* bulanan
* membulan
* anak bulan
* baju bulan
* bulan baru
* bulan bintang
* bulan biru
* bulan darah
* bulan dimakan Rahu
* bulan gelap
* bulan gerhana
* bulan haji
* bulan kembar
* bulan kesiangan
* bulan madu
* bulan penuh
* bulan puasa
* bulan purnama
* bulan sabit
* bulan sabit baru
* bulan sabit tua
* bulan suci
* bulan timbul
* bulan tua

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: bulan

### References

* Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “بولن bulan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 132
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “bulan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 161-2

### Further reading

* “bulan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Masbatenyo
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon
* month

## Matigsalug Manobo
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* month
* moon

## Ngaju
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

#### Descendants

* Javanese: bulan

## Ratagnon
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon
* month

## Remontado Agta
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

búlan
* moon
* month

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Romani bul (“buttocks”).

### Noun

bulan n (plural bulane)
* (slang) good luck
* (slang) leg

#### Declension
## Sasak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Sundanese

Sundanese register set :
| lemes | sasih |
| lemes ka sorangan | {{{les}}} |
| lemes ka batur | {{{leb}}} |
| loma | bulan |
| cohag | {{{co}}} |

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan (Sundanese script ᮘᮥᮜᮔ᮪) (loma)
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Swedish
### Noun

bulan
* definite singular of bula

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Cebuano bulan, from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Proposed by Eusebio Daluz by the 20th century to use the Visayan word instead of Tagalog buwan (“moon; month”) to distinguish “moon” and “month” to have equivalents for Spanish luna (“moon”) and Spanish mes (“month”). Doublet of buwan.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbulan/ [ˈbuː.lɐn̪]
* Rhymes: -ulan
* Syllabification: bu‧lan
* Homophone: Bulan

### Noun

bulan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔) (neologism)
* moon
    Synonyms: buwan, (rare) luna

#### Derived terms

* bagong bulan
* bulang gasuklay
* bulang kabilugan
* bulang nagbibilog
* bulang nagdudurog
* patay na bulan
* talabulanan

#### Related terms

* Bulan

### Further reading

* del Rosario, Gonsalo (1969) Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino [Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino] (overall work in English and Tagalog), Manila: National Book Store, Inc., →LCCN, →OL
* Daluz, Eusebio T. (1915) Filipino-English vocabulary: with practical example of Filipino and English grammars, Manila: Akademya ng Wikang Filipino, page 12.
* Lope K. Santos (1938) Gabriel A. Bernardo, transl., Sources and means for further enrichment of Tagalog as our national language‎, Manila : University of the Philippines, pages 123–124

## Tausug
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan.

### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /bulan/ [bʊˈlan̪]
* Rhymes: -an
* Syllabification: bu‧lan

### Noun

bulan (Sulat Sūg spelling بُلَنْ)
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Toba Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
* moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
* month (period into which a year is divided)

## Turkish
### Verb

bulan
* imperfect participle of bulmak

## Yakan
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulan
* moon
* month

## Yogad
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

bulán
* moon
* month