bulan

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

bulán

1. moon

bulan

1. subject non-past participle of bulmaq

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

bulan (Balinese script ᬩᬸᬮᬦ᭄)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

• “bulan” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.l̪an̪]
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

búlan (Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

bulan

1. moon
2. month

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

• IPA^(key): /bulan/
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. month (period into which a year is divided)

• bolan — archaic spelling
• buwan — dialectal

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

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

bulan (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

1. the Moon
   1. moon of other planets
2. month

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

bulán (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

1. to hire a servant

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

• Fr. Juan Felis de la Encarnación (1851) Diccionario bisaya-español‎^[1] (overall work in Cebuano and Spanish), Amigos del País, page 69
• John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan‎^[2] (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

bulan

1. moon
2. month

bulan

1. inflection of bulir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lɐn]
• Rhymes: -ulan
• Syllabification: bu‧lan

bulan (Hanunoo spelling ᜪᜳᜮᜨ᜴)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

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

bulan

1. moon

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

búlan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

bulan

1. moon
2. month

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lan]
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

bulan (Kur-itan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

• boelan (1901–1947)

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”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lan]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ulan
• Syllabification: bu‧lan

bulan (plural bulan-bulan)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)

   Bulan malam ini sangat bulat. ― The moon is very round tonight.

2. 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.

3. month (period into which a year is divided)

   Kami harus membayar tagihan air setiap bulan.

   We have to pay the water bill every month.

See Thesaurus:bulan.

• “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.

bulan

1. romanization of ꦧꦸꦭꦤ꧀

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulən/ [ˈbuː.lən]
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

búlan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon

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

bulan

1. moon
2. month

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

bulan

1. moon
2. month

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).

• (Baku, Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lan]

• Audio (Malaysia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ulan
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

bulan (Jawi spelling بولن, plural bulan-bulan)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

   Aku pergi ke sana dua kali untuk setiap bulan.

   I go there twice for every month.

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

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

• Indonesian: bulan

• 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

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

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

bulan

1. moon
2. month

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

bulan

1. month
2. moon

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. month (period into which a year is divided)

• Javanese: bulan

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

bulan

1. moon

   Synonyms: wulan, sasih

   1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
      • c. late 15th century, Bujangga Manik, folio 12, verso:

        mo ñoraṅ pacarek döi / mo ma tina paṅi(m)pyan / pajĕĕṅ bĕṅĕt di bulan / patempuh awak di [awak di] aṅin.

        We shall no longer speak, except in our dreams; we'll meet on the moon, and reach for one another through the wind.

   2. month (period into which a year is divided)

• Sundanese: bulan

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

bulan

1. moon
2. month

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

búlan

1. moon
2. month

Borrowed from Romani bul (“buttocks”).

bulan n (plural bulane)

1. (slang) good luck
2. (slang) leg

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

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

bulan (Sundanese script ᮘᮥᮜᮔ᮪) (loma)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

bulan

1. definite singular of bula

Learned borrowing from Cebuano bulan, from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Proposed by Eusebio Daluz by the 20^th 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.

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

bulan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔) (neologism)

1. moon

   Synonyms: buwan, (rare) luna

• 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^[3], Manila : University of the Philippines, pages 123–124

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

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

bulan (Sulat Sūg spelling بُلَنْ)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

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

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

bulan

1. imperfect participle of bulmak

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

bulan

1. moon
2. month

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

bulán

1. moon
2. month