bulk
English
/bʌlk/
noun
Definitions
- Size, specifically, volume.
- Any huge body or structure.
- The major part of something.
- dietary Dietary fibre.
- (uncountable) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
- (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- (obsolete) The body.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bulk derived from Old Norse búlki (the freight the cargo of a ship) derived from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (heap, beam, pile) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (beam, pile, prop, plank, thick plank, balk) derived from Middle English bouk (belly, trunk) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (beam, pile, prop, plank, thick plank, balk).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰelǵ-
Gloss
beam, pile, prop, plank, thick plank, balk
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bouk English
- bulkage English
- bulked English
- bulken English
- bulker English
- bulkhead English
- bulkheaded English
- bulkheading English
- bulkily English
- bulkiness English
- bulklike English
- bulksome English
- bulkwise English
- bulky English
- debulk English
- head English
- microbulk English
- nonbulky English
- outbulk English
- overbulk English
- semibulk English
- superbulky English
- unbulky English
- bulkki Finnish
- bulkkitavara Finnish
- bulkkituote Finnish
- phalangem Latin
- sufflamen Latin
- φάλαγξ Ancient Greek
- φᾰ́λᾰγξ Ancient Greek
- *bʰelǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *balkô Proto-Germanic
- *blukką Proto-Germanic
- *bulkô Proto-Germanic
- bolca Old English
- buc Old English
- būc Old English
- bouk Middle English
- bulk Middle English
- bulked Middle English
- bulki Middle English
- búlki Old Norse
- bok Afrikaans
- *bliga Proto-Albanian