boule
French
noun
Definitions
- ball, globe
- bowl (in the game of bowls)
- scoop (of e.g. ice cream)
- bauble
- (informal) head or face
- (France) ball, testicle
- (Quebec) tit, breast
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French boule (ball) inherited from Old French bole (knob) inherited from Latin bulla (bubble, rounded object, document, amulet, round object, round swelling, water bubble, stud, buble, button, bud, decree, bull, knob) derived from Frankish *bollā (bun, ball, bowl, cup).
Origin
Frankish
*bollā
Gloss
bun, ball, bowl, cup
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
玉
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- boule English
- bulla English
- bulla Finnish
- *bulbulliare Latin
- bubble, bulla Latin
- bulla Latin
- bullo Latin
- bullō Latin
- bolla Italian
- bollo Italian
- bulletino Italian
- bullettino Italian
- bullone Italian
- cipolla Italian
- bouler French
- boulet French
- boulette French
- bouliste French
- boulocher French
- boulodrome French
- boulon French
- boulonner French
- boulonnerie French
- boulu French
- débouler French
- пуля Russian
- bollo Spanish, Castilian
- bula Spanish, Castilian
- *bew- Proto-Indo-European
- bolha Portuguese
- bula Portuguese
- bulla Polish
- kula Polish
- kulisty Polish
- bylet Middle English
- billette Old French
- bole Old French
- boulanger Old French
- bulle Old French
- bola Catalan, Valencian
- butlla Catalan, Valencian
- bola Galician
- bu lông Vietnamese
- boule Middle French
- boulet Middle French
- куля Ukrainian
- bola Occitan
- куля Belarusian
- *bollā Frankish
- bola Old Occitan
- bóła Venetian