embullar

Uncertain, perhaps from Latin involvere,^[1] or *imbotulare, from botulus (“sausage”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əm.buˈʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [em.buˈʎaɾ]

embullar (first-person singular present embullo, first-person singular preterite embullí, past participle embullat)

1. (transitive) to entangle

   Antonym: desembullar

2. (figurative, transitive) to complicate

   Synonym: embrollar

• bull

• “embullar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “embullar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “embullar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From em- +‎ bulla (“rowdiness, racket”) +‎ -ar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧bu‧llar

embullar (first-person singular present embullo, first-person singular preterite embullé, past participle embullado)

1. (Colombia) to excite

   Synonym: ilusionar

2. (Colombia) to stir up

   Synonyms: alborotar, meter bulla

3. (Colombia) to tell lies

   Synonym: engrupir

• “embullar”, 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