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

Borrowed from Esperanto bulo, French boule, Spanish bola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lo/

bulo (plural buli)

1. ball
2. bubble

• nivobulo (“snowball”)

• 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

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.

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

Compare Remontado Agta bul-u.

• Hyphenation: bu‧lo
• IPA^(key): /buˈloʔ/, [bʊˈloʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ

bulô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

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

   Synonyms: bisiro, guya

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (“body hair; fur; feather”). Compare Javanese wulu and Malay bulu.

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

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.)

• Hyphenation: bu‧lo
• IPA^(key): /buˈlo/, [bʊˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o

buló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

1. (obsolete) value; worth; importance

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

Cognate with Ternate budo (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.l̪o/

bulo

1. (stative) to be white

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

From French bleu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulɔ/

bulo

1. to be blue