bulo

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbulo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: bu‧lo

bulo (accusative singular bulon, plural buloj, accusative plural bulojn)

1. ball (of dough, dirt, snow, etc.)
2. clod

• bulmarko (“bullet”)

• pilko
• globo
• sfero

bulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bulir

Borrowed from Esperanto bulo, French boule, Spanish bola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lo/

bulo (plural buli)

1. ball
2. bubble

• nivobulo (“snowball”)

• balono (ball; balloon)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: bù‧lo

bulo m (plural buli)

1. alternative form of bullo

• Ulbo

bulo

1. funnel

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈbulɔ]

bulo (Lontara spelling ᨅᨘᨒᨚ)

1. bamboo

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lɔ/
• Rhymes: -ulɔ
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

bulo f

1. vocative singular of bula

bulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bulir

Perhaps from Caló bul (“crap, nonsense”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulo/ [ˈbu.lo]
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

bulo m (plural bulos)

1. (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.

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• “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], 10 December 2024

Compare Kapampangan bulu and Remontado Agta bul-u.

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

bulô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

1. calf of cattle (such as cows, carabaos, etc.)

   Synonyms: bisiro, guya

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

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”).

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

bulo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

1. silky floss or hair covering (on leaves, fruits, stem of plants, etc.)
2. fine hairy growth (on wings of butterflies, bodies of some worms, etc.)
3. (figurative, obsolete) small amount of value, worth, importance

   Synonyms: saysay, halaga, kahulugan, kahalagahan, kabuluhan, kuwenta, importansiya, (dated) kasaysayan

• “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^[1] (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^[2], 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”

• buol, ulbo, lubo, ulob

Cognate with Ternate budo (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.l̪o/

bulo

1. (stative) to be white

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics

From French bleu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulɔ/

bulo

1. to be blue