bulk

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From Middle English bulk, bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold; heap; bulge”), borrowed from Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”). Conflated with Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”).

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: обемист (obemist) — large in size, mass, or volume
• Bulgarian: масивен (masiven) — large in size, mass, or volume
• Catalan: massiu — large in size, mass, or volume
• Cherokee: ᎤᎪᏗᏗ (ugodidi) — large in size, mass, or volume
• Czech: velký — large in size, mass, or volume
• French: massif — large in size, mass, or volume
• French: volumineux — large in size, mass, or volume
• French: gros — large in size, mass, or volume
• Galician: en masa — large in size, mass, or volume
• Galician: por xunto — large in size, mass, or volume
• Portuguese: em massa — large in size, mass, or volume
• Romanian: masiv — large in size, mass, or volume
• Romanian: voluminos — large in size, mass, or volume
• Russian: кру́пный (krúpnyj) — large in size, mass, or volume
• Russian: объёмистый (obʺjómistyj) — large in size, mass, or volume
• Russian: масси́вный (massívnyj) — large in size, mass, or volume
• Russian: ма́ссовый (mássovyj) — large in size, mass, or volume
• Russian: о́птовый (óptovyj) — large in size, mass, or volume
• Slovak: objemný — large in size, mass, or volume
• Slovak: hromadný — large in size, mass, or volume
• Slovak: masový — large in size, mass, or volume
• Slovak: vo veľkom — large in size, mass, or volume
• Spanish: masivo — large in size, mass, or volume
• Spanish: a granel — large in size, mass, or volume
• Swedish: massiv — large in size, mass, or volume
• Swedish: omfångsrik — large in size, mass, or volume
• Swedish: voluminös — large in size, mass, or volume
• Turkish: cüsseli — large in size, mass, or volume
• Turkish: hacimli — large in size, mass, or volume
• Bulgarian: обем (obem) — volume
• Bulgarian: големина (golemina) — volume
• Bulgarian: маса (masa) — volume
• Czech: objem — volume
• Finnish: koko — volume
• Finnish: tilavuus — volume
• French: grosseur — volume
• French: masse — volume
• French: volume — volume
• Galician: vulto — volume
• Hungarian: tömeg — volume
• Hungarian: terjedelem — volume
• Italian: massa — volume
• Italian: mole — volume
• Italian: volume — volume
• Norwegian Bokmål: masse — volume
• Polish: wielkość — volume
• Polish: masa — volume
• Polish: objętość — volume
• Portuguese: volume — volume
• Portuguese: quantidade — volume
• Romanian: masa — volume
• Romanian: vrac — volume
• Russian: величина́ (veličiná) — volume
• Russian: ма́сса (mássa) — volume
• Russian: объём (obʺjóm) — volume
• Serbo-Croatian: gromada — volume
• Slovak: množstvo — volume
• Slovak: kopa — volume
• Slovak: kopec — volume
• Slovak: objem — volume
• Spanish: masa — volume
• Swedish: massa — volume
• Tagalog: bikil — volume
• Turkish: cüsse — volume
• Turkish: hacim — volume
• Turkish: kütle — volume
• Turkish: yığın — volume
• Finnish: jätti — any huge body or structure
• Italian: blocco — any huge body or structure
• Spanish: corpulencia — any huge body or structure
• Spanish: mole — any huge body or structure
• Bulgarian: главна част (glavna čast) — major part of something
• Catalan: gruix — major part of something
• Czech: většina — major part of something
• Czech: velká část — major part of something
• Finnish: suurin osa — major part of something
• Finnish: valtaosa — major part of something
• French: gros — major part of something
• French: ensemble — major part of something
• French: essentiel — major part of something
• German: Großteil — major part of something
• Hungarian: nagyja — major part of something
• Italian: grosso — major part of something
• Norwegian Bokmål: masse — major part of something
• Portuguese: grosso — major part of something
• Russian: бо́льшая часть (bólʹšaja častʹ) — major part of something
• Russian: основна́я ма́сса (osnovnája mássa) — major part of something
• Spanish: grueso — major part of something
• Swedish: lejonpart — major part of something
• Swedish: merpart — major part of something
• Bulgarian: насипен товар (nasipen tovar) — unpackaged goods in transport
• Chinese Mandarin: 散裝 /散装 (sǎnzhuāng) — unpackaged goods in transport
• Finnish: irtotavara — unpackaged goods in transport
• Finnish: bulkkitavara — unpackaged goods in transport
• Finnish: bulkki — unpackaged goods in transport
• French: vrac — unpackaged goods in transport
• Hebrew: תִּפְזֹרֶת (tifzoret) — unpackaged goods in transport
• Hebrew: צֹבֶר (tsover) — unpackaged goods in transport
• Portuguese: granel — unpackaged goods in transport
• Spanish: bulto — unpackaged goods in transport
• Spanish: a granel — unpackaged goods in transport
• Turkish: yığın — unpackaged goods in transport
• Finnish: irtotavara — items moved in the manner of cargo
• Finnish: bulkkitavara — items moved in the manner of cargo
• Finnish: massa — bodybuilding: excess body mass
• French: prise de masse — bodybuilding: period of growing muscle
• Finnish: tomumaja — obsolete: body
• Czech: růst — to grow in size
• Czech: narůst — to grow in size
• Māori: toko — to grow in size