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bula

Pronunciation: /bûla/

“bula” is a Serbo-Croatian word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a Muslim woman in harem pants or covered with a headscarf
  2. a married woman
  3. bull (blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion)
  4. an empty space
  5. Islamic religion teacher
  6. Islamic clerk or official
  7. bull (seal affixed to a document)
  8. charter with such bull
  9. a box in which a seal is stored

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بولا (bola, bula, “wife of one’s paternal uncle; lady, miss”).

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