bolado
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /boˈla.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /boˈla.do/
- Hyphenation: bo‧la‧do
Adjective
bolado (feminine bolada, masculine plural bolados, feminine plural boladas, comparable, comparative mais bolado, superlative o mais bolado or boladíssimo, diminutive boladinho, augmentative boladão)
- (Brazil, colloquial) imagined, elaborated
- (Brazil, slang, of a person) worried, upset
- Synonym: chateado
- (Brazil, slang, of a person) stoned (high on drugs)
- Synonym: drogado
- (Brazil, slang) cool, awesome
- (Brazil, religion) possessed by an orisha
Derived terms
Participle
bolado (feminine bolada, masculine plural bolados, feminine plural boladas)
- past participle of bolar
Further reading
- “bolado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “bolado”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
- “bolado”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “bolado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “bolado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boˈlado/ [boˈla.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: bo‧la‧do
Noun
bolado m (plural bolados)
- (colloquial, El Salvador) alternative spelling of volado
- Synonym: cosa
Further reading
- “bolado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- #RAEconsultas: "La lexicografía salvadoreña registra el término con las dos grafías: «volado» y «bolado»"