bola

bola (plural bolas)

1. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.

• Albo, Boal, albo, boal

bola

1. house

First appears 1502. From Latin bulla, probably through the intermediate of Occitan bola. Doublet of butlla and the archaic or dialectal bolla.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.la/

bola f (plural boles)

1. ball
2. lie, untruth

Borrowed from Spanish bola.

bola

1. ball, sphere

From Latin bulla. Doublet of bóla and of bula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbola̝/

bola m (plural bolas)

1. piece of bread usually round, large and low
2. pie
3. (archaic) bulla (round metallic seal)
   • 1342, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 177:

     O qual privilegio era bolado de [...] bola de chunbo et de fios de sirgo do qual o tenor era tal en latin feyto, et por quanto en latin non entendian [todo homes pidio al] dito sennor que llo traladasse en romanço

     The aforementioned charter was sealed with [...] seal of lead and threads of silk, and its content was written in Latin, and since Latin wasn't understood by everyone, the aforementioned lord asked for the document to be translated into Romance

• “bola” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “bola” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bola” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bola” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Spanish bola.

bóla

1. ball

bola

1. indefinite accusative singular of boli
2. indefinite dative singular of boli
3. indefinite genitive singular of boli
4. indefinite accusative plural of boli
5. indefinite genitive plural of boli

bola

1. indefinite genitive plural of bolur

bola (plural bola-bola, first-person possessive bolaku, second-person possessive bolamu, third-person possessive bolanya)

1. ball

bola

1. lung

bola class 1 (plural babola)

1. firstborn

Borrowed from Portuguese bola.

bola (Jawi spelling بولا‎, plural bola-bola, informal first-person possessive bolaku, informal second-person possessive bolamu, third-person possessive bolanya)

1. ball

Borrowed from Old Occitan bola, from Latin bulla. Doublet of bula and bolha.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.lɐ/
• Hyphenation: bo‧la

bola f (plural bolas)

1. ball, sphere, round object
2. (sports) ball
3. fat person
4. (slang) testicle

Borrowed from Old Occitan bola, from Latin bulla. Doublet of bula and bolla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbola/
• Hyphenation: bo‧la

bola f (plural bolas)

1. ball
2. (Dominican Republic, slang) hitchhiking, free ride

   Tomamos una bola para llegar aquí.

   We hitchhiked here.

3. (slang) testicle
4. (in the plural) balls
5. hilt (of a sword)
6. (Spain) muscle

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

• Orlando Alba, Cómo hablamos los dominicanos, Santo Domingo, Amigo del Hogar, 2003. (full text)

From Proto-Nguni *-bola, from Proto-Bantu *-bòda.

-bola

1. to rot, to decay

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

bola

1. a ball, sphere, or any round object

mambola

1. to flatter; to jest; to put someone on

   Ang babango ng mga papuri mo, nambobola ka na yata!

   Your words are so nice, you must be flattering!

• bola-bola

From Proto-Turkic *bāla.

bola (plural bolalar)

1. child
2. young (of an animal)

bola m (plural boliau)

1. stomach

From Proto-Nguni *-bola, from Proto-Bantu *-bòda.

-bola

1. (intransitive) to rot, to decay

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Nguni *-bola, from Proto-Bantu *-bòda.

-bola

1. (intransitive) to rot, to decay
2. (intransitive) to go bad