bulo

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulo/

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• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: 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

• “bulo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “bulo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

bulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bulir

Borrowed from Esperanto bulo, French boule, Spanish bola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lo/

bulo (plural buli)

1. ball
2. bubble

• nivobulo (“snowball”)

• balono (ball; balloon)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: bù‧lo

bulo m (plural buli)

1. alternative form of bullo

• Ulbo

bulo

1. funnel

See Lingala bule.

bulo

1. blue

From Proto-South Sulawesi *bulo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulo/, [ˈɓu.lɔ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧lo

bulo (Lontara spelling ᨅᨘᨒᨚ)

1. bamboo

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lɔ/
• Rhymes: -ulɔ
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

bulo f

1. vocative singular of bula

bulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bulir
2. first-person singular present indicative of bolir

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “bulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Compare Kapampangan bulu and Remontado Agta bul-u.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈloʔ/ [bʊˈloʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

bulô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

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

   Synonyms: bisiro, guya

• bolo, bol-o, bol o — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• bul-o — now dialectal, Rizal, Southern Tagalog

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (“body hair; fur; feather”). Compare Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦸ (wulu) and Malay bulu. For the figurative sense, compare Spanish pelo (“hair; filament; little importance”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbulo/ [ˈbuː.lo]
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

bulo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

1. (botany) silky floss or hair covering (on leaves, fruits, stem of plants, etc.); indumentum
2. (zootomy) fine hairy growth (on wings of butterflies, bodies of some worms, etc.); setae
3. (figurative, obsolete) something of little value, worth, or importance

• “bulo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914), Diccionario tagálog-hispano (overall work in Tagalog and Spanish), Intramuros, Manila: Ateneo de Manila., page 158
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag.
  • page 107: “Beçerro) Bol o (pc) hijo de baca de carabao o yegua”
  • page 107: “Bello) Bolo (pp) aſſi del cuerpo como del rroſtro o manos”
  • page 473: “Pelo) Bolo (pp) [o bello] del cuerpo o manos, valan cabolohan, abs) no bale vn pelo, valan cabocabolohan, menos bale que vn pelo, mabolo, ad) coſa de mucho pelo [o bello]”
  • page 573: “Ternera) Bol o (pc) baca niña”

• buol, ulbo, lubo, ulob

Cognate with Ternate budo (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.l̪o/

bulo

1. (stative) to be white

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics

From French bleu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulɔ/

bulo

1. to be blue