bolgia

Meaning

1. (archaic, feminine) a bag, a pouch, especially one which opens longways
2. (archaic, feminine) a ditch, a trench, a hole in the ground
3. (feminine) a bolgia (division in Dante's Inferno)
4. (feminine, figuratively) a mob or crowd of people in a confined space; a bedlam

Concepts

bedlam

brouhaha

disorder

ditch

hubbub

katzenjammer

mess

turmoil

uproar

Synonyms

baraonda

caos

clamore

confusione

baccano

bailamme

buriana

caciara

cagnara

canea

chiasso

disordine

fracasso

frastuono

gazzarra

parapiglia

sarabanda

bordello

schiamazzo

Translations

pagaille

bouge

caos

fosse

batahola

Babel

cridòria

guirigall

desordre

brouhaha

désordre

fatras

esvalot

fouillis

Unordnung

Hyphenated as

bòl‧gia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɔl.d͡ʒa/

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Old French bolge, bouge, from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”) (or less likely directly from an adjectival form bulgea), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).