boul

See also: boul.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

boul (plural bouls)

1. (archaic, rare) A curved handle.
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     this comes to hand like the boul of a pint stoup

See also

• young boul

References

• “boul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Antillean Creole

Noun

boul

1. clot; lump; clod

Champenois

Alternative forms

• (Briard) boulin
• (Troyen) boulin

Etymology

Inherited from Old French boul, Inherited from Latin betulla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul/

Noun

boul m (plural bouls)

1. (Rémois) birch, Betula

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

French

Noun

boul m (plural bouls)

1. abbreviation of boulevard alternative form of boul.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *betullus, from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.

Also compare Catalan bedoll, Portuguese bétula, Italian betulla.

Noun

boul oblique singular, m (oblique plural bous or box or bouls, nominative singular bous or box or bouls, nominative plural boul)

1. birch (tree)

Descendants

• Franc-Comtois: boulât
• French: bouleau
• → Medieval Latin: būlus, bōlus

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “boul”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbo.ul]

Noun

boul m

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bou

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboul/ [ˈbou̯l], /ˈbol/ [ˈbol]
• Rhymes: -oul, -ol
• Syllabification: boul

Noun

boul m (plural bouls)

1. alternative spelling of bowl

Further reading

• “boul”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española]; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2023, →ISBN