bola

Probably from Spanish bola.

• Rhymes: -əʊlə

bola (plural bolas)

1. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.

• rola bola

• Albo, Boal, albo

Borrowed from Spanish bola.

bola

1. ball
2. flattery; compliment

   Synonym: bolada

bola (Lontara spelling ᨅᨚᨒ)

1. house

First appears 1502. From Latin bulla, probably through the intermediate of Occitan bola. Doublet of butlla and the archaic or dialectal bolla.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.la/

bola f (plural boles)

1. ball
2. (baseball) ball (pitch which falls outside the strike zone)

   Synonym: bola dolenta

3. lie, untruth

• bola dolenta
• bola de neu
• bola-de-neu
• embolar

• “bola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “bola” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Spanish bola.

bola

1. ball, sphere

From Proto-Oceanic *polaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəlaq.

bola

1. to split with axe or heavy knife

From Latin bulla. Doublet of bóla and of bula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbola̝/

bola f (plural bolas)

1. piece of bread usually round, large and low
2. pie
3. (archaic) bulla (round metallic seal)
   • 1342, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 177:

     O qual privilegio era bolado de [...] bola de chunbo et de fios de sirgo do qual o tenor era tal en latin feyto, et por quanto en latin non entendian [todo homes pidio al] dito sennor que llo traladasse en romanço

     The aforementioned charter was sealed with [...] seal of lead and threads of silk, and its content was written in Latin, and since Latin wasn't understood by everyone, the aforementioned lord asked for the document to be translated into Romance

• “bola” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bola” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bola” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bola” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Spanish bola.

bóla

1. ball

bola

1. indefinite accusative singular of boli
2. indefinite dative singular of boli
3. indefinite genitive singular of boli
4. indefinite accusative plural of boli
5. indefinite genitive plural of boli

bola

1. indefinite genitive plural of bolur

From Malay bola, from Portuguese bola, from Old Occitan bola, from Latin bulla. Doublet of bolu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbo.la]
• Hyphenation: bo‧la
• Rhymes: -la, -a

bola (first-person possessive bolaku, second-person possessive bolamu, third-person possessive bolanya)

1. ball, a solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
2. (mathematics) sphere: a regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter.

• “bola” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

bola

1. lung

bola class 1 (plural babola class 2)

1. firstborn

Borrowed from Portuguese bola, from Old Occitan bola, from Latin bulla.

• IPA^(key): /bola/
• Rhymes: -ola, -la, -a

bola (Jawi spelling بول‎, plural bola-bola, informal 1st possessive bolaku, 2nd possessive bolamu, 3rd possessive bolanya)

1. ball

   Bola bola sepak

   Football ball

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

Borrowed from Old Occitan bola, from Vulgar Latin *bolla, from a merger of Latin bulla with Frankish *bollā (compare English bowl). Doublet of bula and bolha.

• Hyphenation: bo‧la

bola f (plural bolas)

1. ball, sphere, round object

   Synonym: pelota

2. (sports) ball
3. fat person
4. (slang, in the plural) testicle
5. (colloquial) football, soccer

• bolo
• embolar

From bolo.

• Hyphenation: bo‧la

bola f (plural bolas)

1. bread roll (small, round bread)

• “bola” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

bola

1. ball

bolâ

1. foam; bubble

bola (Cyrillic spelling бола)

1. inflection of bosti:
   1. feminine singular active past participle
   2. neuter plural active past participle

• IPA^(key): [ˈbola]

bola

1. feminine singular l-participle of byť

Borrowed from Old Occitan bola, from Latin bulla. Doublet of bula and bolla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbola/ [ˈbo.la]

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• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: bo‧la

bola f (plural bolas)

1. ball

   Synonyms: balón, pelota

2. (slang) testicle
3. (ice cream) scoop
4. hilt (of a sword)
5. (Spain) muscle
6. (Dominican Republic, slang) hitchhiking, free ride

   Tomamos una bola para llegar aquí.

   We hitchhiked to get here.

• → Bikol Central: bola
• → Cebuano: bola
• → English: bola
• → Hiligaynon: bola
• → Tagalog: bola

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bola f

1. feminine singular of bolo

• “bola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• Orlando Alba (2003) Cómo hablamos los dominicanos‎, Santo Domingo: Amigo del Hogar

From Proto-Bantu *-bòda.

-bola

1. to rot, to decay

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived from Middle Low German bōlen, from bōle (“friend; lover; mistress”). Cognate of German buhlen and Dutch boelen. Compare origin of German Buhle.

• IPA^(key): /²buːla/

bola (present bolar, preterite bolade, supine bolat, imperative bola)

1. (archaic) bugger, wench, commit fornication

• boleri

• bola in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bola in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bola in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• bola in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

From Spanish bola.

• Hyphenation: bo‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈbola/, [ˈbo.lɐ]

bola

1. ball; round object
2. ball game

   Synonym: bolahan

3. flattery

   Synonym: hibo

4. taunt; jest
5. deception; bluff

   Synonyms: linlang, lalang, daya

6. drawing of winning numbers in a lottery

Likely ultimately from Portuguese bola de gude (“marble”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbo.la]

bola

1. a marble (toy)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbo.la]

bola

1. a spool

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Oceanic *bolac (“to spread out”) with irregular loss of *c, variant of *polac, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəlaj, from Proto-Austronesian *bəlaj.

• IPA^(key): /bola/

bola

1. mat

• Sarah Elizabeth Byrne, A practice-centred approach to Uneapa Island's archaeology in a long-term context (2008). Oceania (vol. 87, no. 1). Ph.D. dissertation. University College London.

From Proto-Turkic *bāla.

bola (plural bolalar)

1. child
2. young (of an animal)

From Middle Welsh boly, from Old Welsh bolg, from Proto-Brythonic *bolɣ, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos; cognate with Old Irish bolg.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔla/
• Rhymes: -ɔla

bola m (plural boliau)

1. stomach

   Synonym: bol

From Proto-Bantu *-bòda.

-bola

1. (intransitive) to rot, to decay

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bola

1. neotropical whipsnake (Masticophis mentovarius)

• Butler H., Inez M. (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de Yatzachi: Yatzachi el Bajo, Yatzachi el Alto, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 37)‎, second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 29

From Proto-Bantu *-bòda.

-bola

1. (intransitive) to rot, to decay
2. (intransitive) to go bad