булава

Near etymology: булавка, Doublet of булава́ (bulavá, literally “mace, staff”). Derivative using -ava from Proto-Slavic *bula (literally “cone [5], knob”), Slovene búla (“cone [5], tumour”), Czech boule (“cone [5]”), Polish bula (“bubble”), Serbo-Croatian бу́љити (“open one's eyes wide; stare”).

• IPA^(key): [buɫaˈva]

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булава́ • (bulavá) f inan (genitive булавы́, nominative plural була́вы, genitive plural була́ў or була́ваў)

1. mace (heavy fighting club)

   Synonym: па́ліца (pálica)

• “булава” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “булава”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

Compare Polish buława.

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• IPA^(key): [bʊɫɐˈva]

булава́ • (bulavá) f inan (genitive булавы́, nominative plural булавы́, genitive plural була́в)

1. mace (heavy fighting club)

   Synonym: па́лица (pálica)

2. (sports) juggling club

• була́вка (bulávka)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “булава”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

• IPA^(key): [bʊɫɐˈʋa]

булава́ • (bulavá) f inan (genitive булави́, nominative plural булави́, genitive plural була́в)

1. mace (heavy fighting club)

   Synonym: па́лиця (pálycja)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “булава”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “булава”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)