bulë

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bule"

Albanian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *bulā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃-. Compare Middle High German bolle (“bud”), Greek φύλλο (fýllo, “leaf”), Latin folium (“leaf”).

Noun

bulë f (plural bula, definite bula, definite plural bulat)

1. bud, sprout, shoot

   Synonym: mugull

Related terms

• bilonjë
• blerë

Further reading

• “bulë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “bulë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999) “bulë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]