name
Meaning 1
A Chadic language native to Nigeria.
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Standard Lemma guide
bole
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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bǔʹlǔʹ
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General-American: /bol/
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Received-Pronunciation: /bəʊl/
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Received-Pronunciation: /bɒʊl/
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/bɒl/ doll–dole merger
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rhymes with -əʊl
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homophone: bowl
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CMU ARPABET: B OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A county-level city of Bortala prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
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name
Meaning 3
A town in Ghana.
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name
Meaning 4
A village and civil parish of Nottinghamshire, England.
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name
Meaning 5
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 6
The trunk or stem of a tree.
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noun
Meaning 7
Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
A bolus; a dose.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 11
An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 12
A small closet.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 13
a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Bolanci
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Broader terms: West Chadic
noun
Meaning 14
the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: trunk, tree trunk
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Broader terms: stalk, stem
noun
Meaning 15
a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: soil, dirt, pigment
History
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 博樂 /博乐 (Bólè).
Uncertain. Theories include derivation from Akan bɔro (bōro, “sweet”), Nuer bɛɛl (bōl, “grape”), and Gonja bɔl (bōl, “submission”).
From earlier Bolle, ultimately from either the dative singular bolde or dative plural boldum of bold (“house”); the latter is perhaps suggested by its attestation in the Domesday Book as Medieval Latin Bolun.
From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).
From Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Cantonese: 博樂 /博乐 (bok3 lok6) — city in Xinjiang, China
- Chinese Mandarin: 博樂 /博乐 (Bólè) — city in Xinjiang, China
- Mongolian: Бортал (Bortal) — city in Xinjiang, China
- Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠷᠢᠲᠠᠯᠠ (borital-a) — city in Xinjiang, China
- Uyghur: بۆرتالا (börtala) — city in Xinjiang, China
- Uyghur: Бөртала (Börtala) — city in Xinjiang, China
- Uyghur: Börtala — city in Xinjiang, China
- Bulgarian: ствол (stvol) — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Bulgarian: стъбло (stǎblo) — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Catalan: fust — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Catalan: tronc — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Czech: peň — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Esperanto: trunko — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Finnish: runko — the trunk or stem of a tree
- French: fût — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Georgian: ტანი (ṭani) — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Georgian: ჯირკი (ǯirḳi) — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Indonesian: batang — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Norwegian: stamme — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Polish: pień — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Portuguese: tronco — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Russian: ство́л (stvól) — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Swedish: stam — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Swedish: bål — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Walloon: buk — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Walloon: bodje — the trunk or stem of a tree
- Walloon: beur — the trunk or stem of a tree