bulla

Meaning

bullir

  1. (intransitive) to boil (to begin to turn into a gas)
  2. (intransitive) to boil, to bubble, to churn (to be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce)
  3. (intransitive) to bustle (to move busily and energetically)
  4. (figuratively) to bubble, to bubble up, to well up (to churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface)
  5. (intransitive) to teem, to abound
  6. (transitive) to move, to budge (part of one's body)

Hyphenated as
bu‧lla
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbuʝa/
Etymology

Deverbal from bullir, from Latin bullīre (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

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