Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulo/Category:Esperanto 2-syllable words#BULOCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#BULO

• Audio:

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  Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#BULO
• Rhymes: -uloCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ulo#BULOCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ulo/2 syllables#BULO
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

Noun

bulo (accusative singular bulon, plural buloj, accusative plural bulojn)Category:Esperanto lemmas#BULOCategory:Esperanto nouns#BULOCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. ball (of dough, dirt, snow, etc.)
2. clod

Further reading

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

Verb

buloCategory:Galician non-lemma forms#BULOCategory:Galician verb forms#BULOCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. first-person singular present indicative of bulir

Etymology

Borrowed from EsperantoCategory:Ido terms borrowed from Esperanto#BULOCategory:Ido terms derived from Esperanto#BULO bulo, FrenchCategory:Ido terms borrowed from French#BULOCategory:Ido terms derived from French#BULO boule, SpanishCategory:Ido terms borrowed from Spanish#BULOCategory:Ido terms derived from Spanish#BULO bola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lo/Category:Ido terms with IPA pronunciation#BULO

Noun

buloCategory:Ido lemmas#BULOCategory:Ido nouns#BULOCategory:Ido entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO (plural buli)

1. ball
2. bubble

See also

• balono (ball; balloon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lo/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#BULOCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#BULO
• Rhymes: -uloCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ulo#BULOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ulo/2 syllables#BULO
• Hyphenation: bù‧lo

Noun

bulo m (plural buli)Category:Italian lemmas#BULOCategory:Italian nouns#BULOCategory:Italian countable nouns#BULOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Italian masculine nouns#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. alternative form of bullo

Anagrams

• Ulbo

Noun

buloCategory:Lindu lemmas#BULOCategory:Lindu nouns#BULOCategory:Lindu entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. funnel

Etymology

See Lingala bule.

Adjective

buloCategory:Lingala lemmas#BULOCategory:Lingala adjectives#BULOCategory:Lingala entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. blue

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-PolynesianCategory:Makasar terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#BULOCategory:Makasar terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#BULO *buluq, from Proto-Malayo-PolynesianCategory:Makasar terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#BULOCategory:Makasar terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#BULO *buluq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbulɔ]Category:Makasar terms with IPA pronunciation#BULO

Noun

bulo (Lontara spelling ᨅᨘᨒᨚ)Category:Makasar lemmas#BULOCategory:Makasar nouns#BULOCategory:Makasar entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. bamboo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.lɔ/Category:Polish 2-syllable words#BULOCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#BULO
• Rhymes: -ulɔCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ulɔ#BULOCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ulɔ/2 syllables#BULO
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

Noun

bulo fCategory:Polish non-lemma forms#BULOCategory:Polish noun forms#BULOCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. vocative singular of bula

Verb

buloCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#BULOCategory:Portuguese verb forms#BULOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

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

Etymology

Perhaps from CalóCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from Caló#BULOCategory:Spanish terms derived from Caló#BULO bul (“crap, nonsense”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulo/ [ˈbu.lo]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#BULOCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#BULO
• Rhymes: -uloCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ulo#BULOCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ulo/2 syllables#BULO
• Syllabification: bu‧lo

Noun

bulo m (plural bulos)Category:Spanish lemmas#BULOCategory:Spanish nouns#BULOCategory:Spanish countable nouns#BULOCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. (SpainCategory:Peninsular Spanish#BULO) 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)

     Category:Spanish terms with quotations#BULOCategory:Requests for translations of Spanish quotations#BULO

References

Further reading

• “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

Etymology 1

Compare Kapampangan bulu and Remontado Agta bul-u.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-PolynesianCategory:Tagalog terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#BULOCategory:Tagalog terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#BULO *bulu (“body hair; fur; feather”). Compare Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦸ (wulu) and Malay bulu. For the figurative sense, compare Spanish pelo (“hair; filament; little importance”).

Further reading

• “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.‎ (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.‎ (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”

Anagrams

• buol, ulbo, lubo, ulob

Etymology

Cognate with Ternate budo (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.l̪o/Category:West Makian terms with IPA pronunciation#BULO

Verb

buloCategory:West Makian lemmas#BULOCategory:West Makian verbs#BULOCategory:West Makian entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. (stativeCategory:West Makian stative verbs#BULO) to be white

References

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

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Wolof terms borrowed from French#BULOCategory:Wolof terms derived from French#BULO bleu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulɔ/Category:Wolof terms with IPA pronunciation#BULO

Verb

buloCategory:Wolof lemmas#BULOCategory:Wolof verbs#BULOCategory:Wolof entries with incorrect language header#BULOCategory:Pages with entries#BULOCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BULO

1. to be blue