bola
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- ball
- (Dominican Republic) hitchhiking, free ride
- (slang) testicle
- (in the plural) balls
- (ice cream) scoop
- hilt of a sword
- (Spain) muscle
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan bola derived from Latin bulla (bubble, rounded object, document, amulet, round object, round swelling, water bubble, stud, buble, button, bud, decree, bull, knob).
Origin
Latin
bulla
Gloss
bubble, rounded object, document, amulet, round object, round swelling, water bubble, stud, buble, button, bud, decree, bull, knob
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
芽
Emoji
💬 💭 🗯️ 🧋
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bolero English
- bulla English
- bolero Finnish
- bulla Finnish
- *bulbulliare Latin
- bubble, bulla Latin
- bulla Latin
- bullo Latin
- bullō Latin
- bolla Italian
- bollo Italian
- bulletino Italian
- bullettino Italian
- cipolla Italian
- bolada Spanish, Castilian
- bolazo Spanish, Castilian
- bolero Spanish, Castilian
- bollo Spanish, Castilian
- boludez Spanish, Castilian
- boludo Spanish, Castilian
- bolígrafo Spanish, Castilian
- bula Spanish, Castilian
- embolar Spanish, Castilian
- pasabolas Spanish, Castilian
- pasar Spanish, Castilian
- recogebolas Spanish, Castilian
- recoger Spanish, Castilian
- *bew- Proto-Indo-European
- bola Portuguese
- bolha Portuguese
- bula Portuguese
- bulla Polish
- bylet Middle English
- billette Old French
- bole Old French
- bulle Old French
- bola Catalan, Valencian
- butlla Catalan, Valencian
- bola Galician
- bóla Galician
- bola Cebuano
- bola mano Cebuano
- bolador Cebuano
- bola Tagalog
- bolero Tagalog
- mambola Tagalog
- bola Occitan
- *bollā Frankish
- bola Old Occitan
- bóła Venetian
- bola Bikol Central
- bola Hiligaynon