bole
English
editPronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /bol/
Audio (US): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊl/, /bɒʊl/
- Rhymes: -əʊl
- Homophone: bowl
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).
Noun
editbole (plural boles)
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems, volume 1, page 188:
- Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean / Upon the dusky brushwood underneath / Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green, / New from its silken sheath.
- 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
editFrom Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.
Noun
editbole (countable and uncountable, plural boles)
- 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.
- 2018 April 14, “8 things to know about İznik pottery”, in Christie's[1]:
- Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- bole:
- (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
- 1649, Jeremy Taylor, “An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy Against the Pretence of the Spirit”, in Charles Page Eden, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., volume V, published 1849, page 294:
- […] or else […] the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.
Derived terms
editEtymology 3
editNoun
editbole (plural boles)
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
- Take then good Barley newly thrashed and well purged from the Chaff, and put thereof eight Boles, that is about ſix English Quarters, in a Stone - trough
Etymology 4
editNoun
editbole (plural boles)
- (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Adam and Charles Black, published 1862, page 220:
- "Open the bole," said the old woman firmly and hastily to her daughter-in-law, “open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin […] .
- (Scotland) A small closet.
Anagrams
editAlbanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editVariant of bolle. Occurs exclusively in the plural form.
Noun
editbole m pl
Related terms
editBuol
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbole
Czech
editAlternative forms
edit- boleje (verb)
Pronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editbole
Etymology 2
editVerb
editbole
Dama (Sierra Leone)
editEtymology
editPerhaps related to Vai [script needed] (boi, “structure without walls”) or Mende bolo (“courthouse with high walls”) (having the definite form bolei.
Noun
editbole
References
edit- Dalby, T. D. P. (1963) “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54
Galician
editVerb
editbole
- third-person singular present indicative of bulir
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of bulir:
Latvian
editEtymology
editFrom English bowl, probably via German Bowle. Alternative historical forms: bols. First attested use to mean a bowl for making punch – 1880. First attested use to refer to the beverage itself – 1886.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbole f (5th declension)
- (dated sense) a bowl for making punch
- Bowle: bole (punša un citu tādu dzērienu kauss) – Bowle (German): bole (a bowl for punch or similar drinks).[2]
- punch (drink made of wine, diluted with juices, syrups and fruit, often with added cognac or rhum)
- zemeņu bole – strawberry punch
- boles trauks – punch bowl
Declension
editSynonyms
edit- (punch): punšs
References
editLower Sorbian
editVerb
editbole
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom a mixture of Old English bula, *bulla, and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
edit- bull, steer, male cow
- (heraldry) A heraldic bull
- (astrology) Taurus (zodiac)
- (astronomy) Taurus (constellation)
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “bōle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 2
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbole (plural boles)
Descendants
edit- English: bole
References
edit- “bōle, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editClipping of anabol + -e
Verb
editbole (present tense boler, past tense bolte, past participle bolt)
- (colloquial) To use anabolic steroids to increase one's muscle mass.
Polish
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbole n
Further reading
edit- Aleksander Saloni (1899) “bole”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 237
Portuguese
editVerb
editbole
Serbo-Croatian
editParticiple
editbole (Cyrillic spelling боле)
West Makian
editEtymology
editFrom Malay boleh (“can, may, possible”).
Pronunciation
editInterjection
editbole
References
edit- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics
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