bulge

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʌldʒ/
  Play
• General-American: /ˈbʌldʒ/
  Play
• General-American: /ˈbʊldʒ/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -ʌldʒ
  Play
• rhymes with -ʊldʒ
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: B AH1 L JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From Middle English bulge (“leather bag; hump”), from Old Northern French boulge (“leather bag”), from Late Latin bulga (“leather sack”), from Gaulish *bulga, *bulgos, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”). Cognate with bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. Doublet of budge, and from the same root as belly and bellows. See also budget.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: gufim — something sticking out
• Azerbaijani: qabarlıq — something sticking out
• Azerbaijani: qabarıq — something sticking out
• Azerbaijani: çıxıntı — something sticking out
• Bulgarian: издатина (izdatina) — something sticking out
• Bulgarian: изпъкналост (izpǎknalost) — something sticking out
• Catalan: bony — something sticking out
• Catalan: protuberància — something sticking out
• Chinese Mandarin: 鼓包 (gǔbāo) — something sticking out
• Chinese Mandarin: 隆起 (lóngqǐ) — something sticking out
• Czech: boule — something sticking out
• Czech: výčnělek — something sticking out
• Czech: výstupek — something sticking out
• Dutch: bult — something sticking out
• Esperanto: malglataĵo — something sticking out
• Finnish: kohouma — something sticking out
• Finnish: pullistuma — something sticking out
• French: bombement — something sticking out
• French: bosse — something sticking out
• French: protubérance — something sticking out
• Galician: cotobelo — something sticking out
• Galician: cromello — something sticking out
• Galician: gurupela — something sticking out
• Galician: nórnega — something sticking out
• Galician: balume — something sticking out
• Galician: pote — something sticking out
• Galician: rombo — something sticking out
• Galician: bocho — something sticking out
• Galician: noiro — something sticking out
• Galician: protuberancia — something sticking out
• German: Ausbuchtung — something sticking out
• German: Beule — something sticking out
• German: Wölbung — something sticking out
• German: Delle — something sticking out
• Hungarian: dudor — something sticking out
• Hungarian: kitüremkedés — something sticking out
• Italian: sporgenza — something sticking out
• Italian: protuberanza — something sticking out
• Italian: rigonfiamento — something sticking out
• Japanese: 出っ張り (deppari) — something sticking out
• Korean: 부루퉁이 (burutung'i) — something sticking out
• Korean: 뾰루지 (ppyoruji) — something sticking out
• Korean: 혹 (hok) — something sticking out
• Latin: protuberantia — something sticking out
• Polish: wypukłość — something sticking out
• Portuguese: protuberância — something sticking out
• Portuguese: saliência — something sticking out
• Portuguese: bojo — something sticking out
• Romanian: protuberanță — something sticking out
• Romanian: umflătură — something sticking out
• Russian: буго́р (bugór) — something sticking out
• Russian: вы́ступ (výstup) — something sticking out
• Russian: вы́пуклость (výpuklostʹ) — something sticking out
• Spanish: bulto — something sticking out
• Spanish: abultamiento — something sticking out
• Spanish: protuberancia — something sticking out
• Swedish: bula — something sticking out
• Swedish: knöl — something sticking out
• Swedish: utbuktning — something sticking out
• Swedish: bälg — something sticking out
• Turkish: tümsek — something sticking out
• Ottoman Turkish: تومسك (tümsek) — something sticking out
• Albanian: gufohem — to stick out from
• Bulgarian: изпъквам (izpǎkvam) — to stick out from
• Bulgarian: издувам се (izduvam se) — to stick out from
• Catalan: sobresortir — to stick out from
• Chinese Mandarin: 凸出 (tūchū) — to stick out from
• Chinese Mandarin: 突出 (túchū) — to stick out from
• Finnish: pullottaa — to stick out from
• Finnish: pullistua — to stick out from
• Finnish: pullistella — to stick out from
• French: bomber — to stick out from
• French: déformer — to stick out from
• German: hervorstechen — to stick out from
• German: hervortreten — to stick out from
• Hebrew: בליטה (blita) — to stick out from
• Hungarian: kidudorodik — to stick out from
• Hungarian: kitüremkedik — to stick out from
• Italian: sporgere — to stick out from
• Japanese: 膨れる (fukureru) — to stick out from
• Japanese: 突き出る (tsukideru) — to stick out from
• Korean: 부르다 (bureuda) — to stick out from
• Korean: 불거지다 (bulgeojida) — to stick out from
• Latin: prominere — to stick out from
• Māori: whererei — to stick out from
• Māori: riaki — to stick out from
• Portuguese: protuberar — to stick out from
• Russian: выдава́ться (vydavátʹsja) — to stick out from
• Russian: выпя́чиваться (vypjáčivatʹsja) — to stick out from
• Russian: оттопы́риваться (ottopýrivatʹsja) — to stick out from
• Russian: выпира́ть (vypirátʹ) — to stick out from
• Spanish: abultar — to stick out from
• Tày: be — to stick out from