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bula

“bula” is a Swedish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a bulge, a bump (small, round, hard, tender swelling, especially one caused by a strike or blow)
  2. a bulge (smooth outward bend more generally, due to internal pressure or the like)

Etymology

Likely from Middle Low German būle, from Proto-Germanic *būlō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell up”). Doublet of ballong, boll, bolster, bulle, bälg, and bölja, and probably böld. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk bule and bole, Dutch buil, German Beule, English boil.

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