bulu

From Proto-Malayic *bulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu.

• IPA^(key): /bu.lu/

bulu

1. body hair (humans)
2. fur (animals)
3. feather

• (of birds) pelapah

• rambut (“hair”)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bulu₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Borrowed from Portuguese burro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɓu.ɽú/

bulú class 1a (plural abulú class 2)

1. donkey

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

bulu

1. bamboo

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buluq₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Borrowed from English blue.

• IPA^(key): /bʊlʊ/

bulu

1. blue

• Fiji Hindi Dictionary

From Proto-Malayic *bulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lu/
• Hyphenation: bu‧lu
• Rhymes: -ulu

bulu

1. body hair
2. fur
3. feather

• buk (“hair”)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bulu₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbulu/ [ˈbu.lu]

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• Rhymes: -ulu
• Syllabification: bu‧lu

Inherited from Malay bulu, from Proto-Malayic *bulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu.

bulu (countable and uncountable, plural bulu-bulu)

1. body hair

   Synonym: rambut

2. fur

   Synonym: rambut

3. (zoology) feather

rambut is prescribed over bulu for the senses 1 and 2.

• rambut (“hair”)

Borrowed from Nias [Term?].

bulu (countable and uncountable, plural bulu-bulu)

1. a kind of small plate, made of turtle shell on gold scales

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bulu₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “bulu” 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.

bulu

1. (intransitive) to be empty
2. (intransitive) to be clear

• pabulu

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 179

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

bulu

1. bamboo

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buluq₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

bulu

1. mountain

From Proto-Malayic *bulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu.

• IPA^(key): /bulu/
• Rhymes: -ulu

bulu (Jawi spelling بولو, plural bulu-bulu)

1. body hair
2. fur
3. feather

• Indonesian: bulu
• North Moluccan Malay: bulu

• rambut (“hair”)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bulu₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *buluq.

bulu

1. kind of slender bamboo, Thyrsostachys siamensis

   asuwa driya, milibeng mi dra bulu.

   In the early days, the walls of our house were made of slender bamboos.

• Josiane Cauquelin (2015) Nanwang Puyuma-English Dictionary (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 56), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, →ISBN, page 110
• Stacy Fang-Ching Teng (鄧芳青) (2008) A Reference Grammar Of Puyuma, An Austronesian Language Of Taiwan, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 16

bulu

1. semen

From English bull.

bulu

1. bull

Borrowed from Portuguese burro.

bulu class 1a (plural ŵabulu class 2)

1. donkey