boule

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) ball, globe
2. (feminine) bowl (in the game of bowls)
3. (feminine) scoop (for example, of ice cream)
4. (feminine) bauble
5. (feminine, informal) head or face
6. (France, feminine, slang) ball, testicle
7. (Quebec, feminine, slang) tit, breast

Verb

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person) inflection of bouler:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of bouler:

Concepts

ball

sphere

lump

clod

globe

bowl

chunk

snowball

earth

boule

spherical

spherical object

ball-shaped

bread

🍞

clump

glob

globular

mush

wad

musket ball

gobbet

goon

hunk

knob

lout

lubber

lummox

collocate

excrement ball

oaf

orb

roll

can

buhl

bauble

stumblebum

“boule”

Ball

boulle

baseball

⚾

Lucille Ball

formal

gawk

baseball game

crystal ball

🔮

Synonyms

balle

sphère

globe

bal

boulette

terre

banco

ballon

bille

bloc

morceau

grain

pain

🍞

tampon

dans la main

citron

🍋

gosse

🧒

Lucille Ball

malotru

caboche

buhl

perle

rouler

butor

lout

boucle

➿

testicule

voyou

boucle de cheveux

baseball

excréments

miches

motte

patapouf

ball

comprimé

couille

fesses

glèbe

Translations

Kugel

bola

bola

palla

bol

zolla

Klumpen

bal

prop

esfera

klont

🅰️

kluit

Ball

top

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bul/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French: boule

Inherited from Old French: bole

Inherited from Latin: bulla

In summary

Etymology tree
Latin bullader.
Frankish *bollāder.
French boule
Inherited from Middle French boule, from Old French bole (“knob”), from either Latin bulla (“bubble”), in which case it is a doublet of bulle (which was borrowed later); or from Frankish *bollā (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”), in which case it is a doublet of bol.