# bulo
## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈbulo]
* Rhymes: -ulo
* Hyphenation: bu‧lo

### Noun

bulo (accusative singular bulon, plural buloj, accusative plural bulojn)
* ball (of dough, dirt, snow, etc.)
* clod

#### Derived terms

* bulmarko (“bullet”)

#### Related terms

* pilko
* globo
* sfero

## Galician
### Verb

bulo
* first-person singular present indicative of bulir

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto bulo, French boule, Spanish bola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.lo/

### Noun

bulo (plural buli)
* ball
* bubble

#### Derived terms

* nivobulo (“snowball”)

### See also

* balono (ball; balloon)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.lo/
* Rhymes: -ulo
* Hyphenation: bù‧lo

### Noun

bulo m (plural buli)
* Alternative form of bullo

### Anagrams

* Ulbo

## Lindu
### Noun

bulo
* funnel

## Makasar
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbulɔ]

### Noun

bulo (Lontara spelling ᨅᨘᨒᨚ)
* bamboo

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.lɔ/
* Rhymes: -ulɔ
* Syllabification: bu‧lo

### Noun

bulo f
* vocative singular of bula

## Portuguese
### Verb

bulo
* first-person singular present indicative of bulir

## Spanish
### Etymology

Perhaps from Caló bul (“crap, nonsense”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbulo/ [ˈbu.lo]
* Rhymes: -ulo
* Syllabification: bu‧lo

### Noun

bulo m (plural bulos)
* (Spain) canard, hoax (false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so)
    Synonyms: filfa, hoax
** 2015, Eva Aladro Vico, Graciela Padilla Castillo, Aplicaciones actuales de la comunicación e interacción digitales, ACCI (Asoc. Cultural y Científica Iberoameric.) (→ISBN), page 426:
    Debemos, sin embargo, establecer una distinción entre todos los anteriores y el engaño o bulo, cuya voz inglesa, “hoax” se utiliza en España, de forma concreta, para definir aquellos fraudes informativos que se transmiten por Internet.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### References

* ↑ “bulo”, 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

### Further reading

* “bulo”, 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

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Compare Kapampangan bulu and Remontado Agta bul-u.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /buˈloʔ/ [bʊˈloʔ]
* Rhymes: -oʔ
* Syllabification: bu‧lo

#### Noun

bulô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)
* calf of cattle (such as cows, carabaos, etc.)
    Synonyms: bisiro, guya

##### Alternative forms

* bolo, bol-o, bol o — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
* bul-o — now dialectal, Rizal, Southern Tagalog

##### Derived terms

* buluan
* buluin
* magbulo

##### See also

* bulubulo

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (“body hair; fur; feather”). Compare Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦸ (wulu) and Malay bulu. For the figurative sense, compare Spanish pelo (“hair; filament; little importance”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbulo/ [ˈbuː.lo]
* Rhymes: -ulo
* Syllabification: bu‧lo

#### Noun

bulo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)
* silky floss or hair covering (on leaves, fruits, stem of plants, etc.)
* fine hairy growth (on wings of butterflies, bodies of some worms, etc.)
* (figurative, obsolete) small amount of value, worth, importance
    Synonyms: saysay, halaga, kahulugan, kahalagahan, kabuluhan, kuwenta, importansiya, (dated) kasaysayan

##### Derived terms

* buluhan
* buluhin
* kabu-kabuluhan
* kabuluhan
* mabulo
* mabuluhan
* magbulo
* magkabulo
* makabuluhan
* may bulo pa ang pisngi
* pagkabulo
* walang-kabuluhan

#### See also

* bulbol

### Further reading

* “bulo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 158.
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* 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 107: “Beçerro) Bol o (pc) hijo de baca de carabao o yegua”
** page 107: “Bello) Bolo (pp) aſſi del cuerpo como del rroſtro o manos”
** page 473: “Pelo) Bolo (pp) [o bello] del cuerpo o manos, valan cabolohan, abs) no bale vn pelo, valan cabocabolohan, menos bale que vn pelo, mabolo, ad) coſa de mucho pelo [o bello]”
** page 573: “Ternera) Bol o (pc) baca niña”

### Anagrams

* buol, ulbo, lubo, ulob

## West Makian
### Etymology

Cognate with Ternate budo (“white”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.l̪o/

### Verb

bulo
* (stative) to be white

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

## Wolof
### Etymology

From French bleu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbulɔ/

### Verb

bulo
* to be blue