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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlɪt/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈbɵlɪt/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈbʊlət/
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• Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ˈbʉlɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: B UH1 L AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.

From bull + -et.

203 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: ахы (axə) — projectile
• Afrikaans: koeël — projectile
• Albanian: plumb — projectile
• Southern Altai: ок (ok) — projectile
• Amharic: ጥይት (ṭəyt) — projectile
• Arabic: رَصَاصَة (raṣāṣa) — projectile
• Arabic: رَصَاص (raṣāṣ) — projectile
• Armenian: գնդակ (gndak) — projectile
• Aromanian: pljiumbu — projectile
• Aromanian: plumbu — projectile
• Assamese: গুলী (guli) — projectile
• Asturian: bala — projectile
• Avar: гулла (gulla) — projectile
• Azerbaijani: güllə — projectile
• Azerbaijani: qurşun — projectile
• Azerbaijani: qurğuşun — projectile
• Belarusian: ку́ля (kúlja) — projectile
• Bengali: গুলি (guli) — projectile
• Bengali: বুলেট (buleṭ) — projectile
• Breton: boled — projectile
• Bulgarian: куршу́м (kuršúm) — projectile
• Burmese: ကျည် (kyany) — projectile
• Burmese: ကျည်ဖူး (kyanyhpu:) — projectile
• Burmese: ယမ်းတောင့် (yam:taung.) — projectile
• Catalan: bala — projectile
• Catalan: projectil — projectile
• Chamicuro: wala — projectile
• Chechen: даьндарг (dändarg) — projectile
• Chinese Cantonese: 子彈 /子弹 — projectile
• Chinese: чёнзыр (qionzɨr) — projectile
• Chinese: позыр (pozɨr) — projectile
• Chinese Mandarin: 子彈 /子弹 (zǐdàn) — projectile
• Chinese Mandarin: 槍子 /枪子 (qiāngzǐ) — projectile
• Chinese Mandarin: 槍子兒 /枪子儿 (qiāngzǐr) — projectile
• Chinese Mandarin: 彈頭 /弹头 (dàntóu) — projectile
• Ngazidja Comorian: risasi — projectile
• Czech: kulka — projectile
• Danish: kugle — projectile
• Danish: projektil — projectile
• Dutch: kogel — projectile
• Esperanto: kuglo — projectile
• Estonian: kuul — projectile
• Even: нюр (ņur) — projectile
• Faroese: kúla — projectile
• Faroese: skot — projectile
• Finnish: luoti — projectile
• Finnish: kuula — projectile
• French: balle — projectile
• French: projectile — projectile
• West-Frisian: kûgel — projectile
• Galician: bala — projectile
• Galician: proxectil — projectile
• Georgian: ტყვია (ṭq̇via) — projectile
• German: Kugel — projectile
• German: Ball — projectile
• German: Projektil — projectile
• German: Flugkörper — projectile
• Greek: σφαίρα (sfaíra) — projectile
• Gujarati: ગોળી (goḷī) — projectile
• Haitian Creole: bal — projectile
• Hawaiian: pōkā — projectile
• Hawaiian: pōkā pū — projectile
• Hebrew: כַּדּוּר (kadúr) — projectile
• Hebrew: קָלִיעַ (kalía) — projectile
• Hindi: गोली (golī) — projectile
• Hungarian: lövedék — projectile
• Hungarian: golyó — projectile
• Icelandic: byssukúla — projectile
• Icelandic: kúla — projectile
• Icelandic: skot — projectile
• Indonesian: peluru — projectile
• Ingrian: looti — projectile
• Inuktitut: ᓱᓇᒐᖅ (sonacaq) — projectile
• Irish: piléar — projectile
• Italian: proiettile — projectile
• Japanese: 弾丸 (dangan) — projectile
• Japanese: 弾 (tama) — projectile
• Japanese: 銃弾 (jūdan) — projectile
• Javanese: ꦥ꧀ꦭꦸꦫꦸ (pluru) — projectile
• Kalmyk: сумн (sumn) — projectile
• Kannada: ಗುಂಡು (guṇḍu) — projectile
• Kazakh: оқ (oq) — projectile
• Khmer: គ្រាប់កាំភ្លើង (krŏəp kamphləəng) — projectile
• Korean: 탄환 (tanhwan) — projectile
• Korean: 탄알 (tanal) — projectile
• Korean: 총알 (chong'al) — projectile
• Korean: 총탄 (chongtan) — projectile
• Central Kurdish: گولە (gule) — projectile
• Northern Kurdish: gulle — projectile
• Northern Kurdish: fîşek — projectile
• Northern Kurdish: telqe — projectile
• Kyrgyz: ок (ok) — projectile
• Lao: ກະສຸນ (ka sun) — projectile
• Latin: glans — projectile
• Latvian: lode — projectile
• Lingala: lisási — projectile
• Lithuanian: kulka — projectile
• Macedonian: куршум (kuršum) — projectile
• Macedonian: зрно (zrno) — projectile
• Macedonian: фишек (fišek) — projectile
• Malay: pelor — projectile
• Malay: peluru — projectile
• Malay: bullet — projectile
• Malayalam: വെടിയുണ്ട (veṭiyuṇṭa) — projectile
• Maltese: balla — projectile
• Manx: bullad — projectile
• Māori: matā — projectile
• Māori: pokepoke — projectile
• Marathi: गोळी (goḷī) — projectile
• Mongolian: сум (sum) — projectile
• Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu) — projectile
• Nahuatl: temitl — projectile
• Navajo: kʼaaʼ — projectile
• Nepali: गोली (golī) — projectile
• Norman: balle — projectile
• Norwegian Bokmål: kule — projectile
• Occitan: bala — projectile
• Occitan: projectil — projectile
• Ossetian: нӕмыг (næmyg) — projectile
• Pashto: ګولۍ (golᶕy) — projectile
• Persian: گُلُولَه (gulūla) — projectile
• Persian: تِیر (tīr) — projectile
• Iranian Persian: گُلولِه (golule) — projectile
• Iranian Persian: تیر (tir) — projectile
• Polish: pocisk — projectile
• Polish: kula — projectile
• Portuguese: bala — projectile
• Portuguese: projéctil — projectile
• Punjabi: ਗੋਲੀ (golī) — projectile
• Romanian: glonț — projectile
• Romanian: glonte — projectile
• Romanian: alică — projectile
• Russian: пу́ля (púlja) — projectile
• Russian: снаря́д (snarjád) — projectile
• Russian: масли́на (maslína) — projectile
• Scottish Gaelic: peilear — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: ме̏так — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: та̏не — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: ку́гла — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: ку̀ршум — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: mȅtak — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: tȁne — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: kúgla — projectile
• Serbo-Croatian: kùršum — projectile
• Shor: оқ (oq) — projectile
• Sicilian: badda — projectile
• Slovak: guľka — projectile
• Slovene: krogla — projectile
• Spanish: bala — projectile
• Spanish: proyectil — projectile
• Swahili: risasi — projectile
• Swedish: kula — projectile
• Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠟ꠆ꠟꠤ (gulli) — projectile
• Tabasaran: гюлле (gjulle) — projectile
• Tajik: гулӯла (gulüla) — projectile
• Tajik: тир (tir) — projectile
• Tamil: தோட்டா (tōṭṭā) — projectile
• Telugu: తూటా (tūṭā) — projectile
• Thai: กระสุน (grà-sǔn) — projectile
• Tibetan: མདེའུ (mde'u) — projectile
• Tigrinya: ዓረር (ʿarär) — projectile
• Turkish: mermi — projectile
• Turkish: kurşun — projectile
• Ottoman Turkish: قورشون (kurşun) — projectile
• Ottoman Turkish: مرمی (mermi) — projectile
• Turkmen: seçme — projectile
• Ukrainian: ку́ля (kúlja) — projectile
• Unami: aluns — projectile
• Urdu: گولی (golī) — projectile
• Uyghur: ئوق (oq) — projectile
• Uzbek: oʻq — projectile
• Vietnamese: đạn — projectile
• Volapük: glöb — projectile
• Welsh: bwled — projectile
• Yiddish: קויל (koyl) — projectile
• Finnish: ammus — ammunition for a sling
• Czech: odrážka — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Danish: bullet — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Danish: punkttegn — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Esperanto: bulmarko — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Finnish: luettelopallo — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Finnish: pallura — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Finnish: luetelmamerkki — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• French: puce — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• German: Aufzählungszeichen — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Greek: βούλα (voúla) — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Hungarian: díszpont — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Irish: urchar — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Japanese: ビュレット (byuretto) — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Latvian: punkts — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Maltese: dott — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Polish: punktor — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Russian: ма́ркер спи́ска (márker spíska) — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Russian: бу́ллит (búllit) — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Spanish: topo — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Spanish: bolo — typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle
• Chinese Mandarin: 子彈 /子弹 (zǐdàn) — informal: round of unfired ammunition
• Finnish: kuti — informal: round of unfired ammunition
• Finnish: pati — informal: round of unfired ammunition
• Russian: патро́н (patrón) — informal: round of unfired ammunition
• Finnish: kertamaksu — banking: large scheduled payment
• Finnish: kertaerä — banking: large scheduled payment
• Finnish: bumerangi — rejection letter