bulla

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”). Doublet of bill and bull (“papal bull; bubble”).

bulla (plural bullae)

1. (biology, medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
   1. (biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.

      Coordinate terms: vesicle, vesicula

2. (archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
3. (historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
4. Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
5. (biology) Any of several hollow structures as features of bones.

   auditory bulla;   ethmoid bulla

   1. The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance).

• bullous

bulla (countable and uncountable, plural bullas)

1. A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.

• bulla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /bʊllɐ/, /pʊllɐ/

bulla

1. two

From Old Norse *bulla, from Proto-Germanic *bullōną.

bulla (third person singular past indicative bullaði, third person plural past indicative bullaðu, supine bullað)

1. to bubble, gush up
2. to speak unintelligibly
3. to gabble, babble, talk nonsense, twaddle
4. to simmer

• "bulla" at Sprotin.fo

Borrowed from Latin bulla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulːɑ/, [ˈbulːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ulːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): bul‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): bul‧la

bulla

1. bull (papal bull)

• “bulla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /by.la/

bulla

1. third-person singular past historic of buller

bulla

1. inflection of bullar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏtla/
• Rhymes: -ʏtla

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bulla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bullaði, supine bullað)

1. (intransitive) to talk nonsense

   Synonyms: rugla, þvæla, þvaðra

2. (intransitive) to boil, to bubble up

   Synonym: sjóða

• bullandi

• bull

bulla f (genitive singular bullu, nominative plural bullur)

1. piston

   Synonym: stimpill

bulla f (genitive singular bullu, nominative plural bullur)

1. bully

   Synonym: svoli

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bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. (nautical) buoy
2. (medicine) bulla

From Old Irish bulla, borrowed from Latin bulla.

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. (Christianity) bull

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bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. (finance) bull

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. alternative form of bolla (“bowl”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bulla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bulla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bulla”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bulla”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Uncertain; possibly from Gaulish [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“swelling”),^[1][2] same source as Middle Dutch puyl (“bag”) and Lithuanian bule (“buttocks”), or from *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”).^[3][4] Ultimately onomatopoeic.^[5]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbul.la]

bulla f (genitive bullae); first declension

1. a bubble
2. a swollen or bubble-shaped object, particularly:
   1. a knob, boss, or stud, as on doors, shields, etc.
   2. (historical) a bulla: a protective (usually golden) amulet worn by upper-class Roman children
   4. (Medieval Latin, historical) a round metallic seal certifying official medieval documents, particularly the golden imperial seal and the leaden papal one.
3. (Medieval Latin) a papal bull or other official document sealed with a bulla

First-declension noun.

• “bulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "bulla", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bulla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “bulla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

-búĺla

1. to be circumcised

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Learned borrowing from Latin bulla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbul.la/

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• Rhymes: -ulla
• Syllabification: bul‧la

bulla f

1. (Roman Catholicism) bull (papal bull; a document from the papal chancellery)

• bulla in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bulla in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• bulla in PWN's encyclopedia

• Syllabification: bu‧lla

Deverbal from bullir, from Latin bullīre (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

bulla f (plural bullas)

1. rowdiness, racket, ruckus
2. (Andalusia) urgence

• → Portuguese: bulha

bulla

1. inflection of bullir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “bulla”, 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