بولا
Malay
Noun
بولا (plural بولا-بولا or بولا٢)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Unknown, only Ottoman. Attested from the 15th century and deemed obsolete in the 19th.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bɔ.lɑ], [bu.lɑ]
Noun
بولا • (bola, bula)
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: бу́ла (búla, “a veiled Muslim woman”)
- → Bulgarian: бу́ля (búlja, “sister-in-law; address to an elderly woman”)
- → Macedonian: була (bula, “a veiled Muslim woman”)
- → Serbo-Croatian: (“a married woman; a veiled woman”)
Etymology 2
Verb
بولا • (bola)
- third-person singular optative of بولمق
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بولا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 292
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بولا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 407