boule

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /buːl/ Rhymes: -uːl === Etymology 1 === From French boule. Doublet of bull (etymologies 2 and 4) and bulla, or of bowl and pulla, depending on the etymology of the French word. ==== Noun ==== boule (plural boules) One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. A round loaf of bread. A round piece of dough. (woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== boule (third-person singular simple present boules, present participle bouling, simple past and past participle bouled) (transitive, cooking, rare, nonstandard) To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Alteration of Boulle. See buhl. ==== Noun ==== boule (usually uncountable, plural boules) (woodworking) Alternative form of buhl. === Etymology 3 === Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουλή (boulḗ). ==== Noun ==== boule (plural boules) (historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece ===== Related terms ===== bouleuterion bouleutes ===== Translations ===== === Anagrams === Lobue == Czech == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈbou̯lɛ] Rhymes: -oulɛ === Noun === boule f (diminutive bulka) bulge, protuberance bump, swelling ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “boule”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957 “boule”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989 “boule”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026 == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bul/ Rhymes: -ul === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Middle French boule, from Old French bole (“knob”), from either Latin bulla (“bubble”), in which case it is a doublet of bulle (which was borrowed later); or from Frankish *bollā (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”), in which case it is a doublet of bol. ==== Noun ==== boule f (plural boules) ball, globe bowl (in the game of bowls) Il jette la boule. ― He throws the bowl. scoop (for example, of ice cream) 2 boules de glace. ― 2 scoops of ice cream bauble (informal) head or face (France, slang) ball, testicle (Quebec, slang) tit, breast ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ==== Noun ==== boule m (plural boules) (slang) butt, bum, ass === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== boule inflection of bouler: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “boule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Haitian Creole == === Etymology === From French brûler (“to burn”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /buˈle/ === Verb === boule to burn ==== Derived terms ==== n'ap boule == Norman == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === === Noun === boule f (plural boules) (Jersey, nautical) buoy ==== Derived terms ==== boule d'sauvetage (“life belt”) == Romanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈbo.ule] === Noun === boule m vocative singular of bou