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bole

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English

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The bole (trunk) of a tree
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Etymology 1

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From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).

Noun

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bole (plural boles)

  1. The trunk or stem of a tree.
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Etymology 2

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From Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod or lump of earth”): compare French bol. Doublet of bolus.

Noun

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bole (countable and uncountable, plural boles)

  1. Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
    • 2018 April 14, “8 things to know about İznik pottery”, in Christie's‎[1]:
      Good Iznik has strong colours well-contained within their outlines and a very clean, clear white. The red colour, made with Armenian bole (an earthy clay) should be thick and proud of the surface.
  2. The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
    bole:  
  3. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
    • 1649, Jeremy Taylor, “An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy Against the Pretence of the Spirit”, in Charles Page Eden, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., volume V, published 1849, page 294:
      […] or else […] the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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bole (plural boles)

  1. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
    • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
      Take then good Barley newly thrashed and well purged from the Chaff, and put thereof eight Boles, that is about ſix English Quarters, in a Stone - trough

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Noun

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bole (plural boles)

  1. (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
    • 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Adam and Charles Black, published 1862, page 220:
      "Open the bole," said the old woman firmly and hastily to her daughter-in-law, “open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin […] .
  2. (Scotland) A small closet.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Variant of bolle. Occurs exclusively in the plural form.

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bole m pl

  1. testicles
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Buol

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

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bole

  1. house

Czech

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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bole

  1. vocative singular of bol

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Verb

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bole

  1. present masculine singular transgressive of bolet

Dama (Sierra Leone)

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Etymology

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Perhaps related to Vai [script needed] (boi, “structure without walls”) or Mende (Sierra Leone) bolo (“courthouse with high walls”) (having the definite form bolei.

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bole

  1. courthouse

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  • Dalby, T. D. P. (1963), “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54

Galician

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bole

  1. third-person singular present indicative of bulir
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of bulir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latvian

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Etymology

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From English bowl, probably via German Bowle. Alternative historical forms: bols. First attested use to mean a bowl for making punch – 1880. First attested use to refer to the beverage itself – 1886.[1]

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bole f (5th declension)

  1. (dated sense) a bowl for making punch
    Bowle: bole (punša un citu tādu dzērienu kauss) – Bowle (German): bole (a bowl for punch or similar drinks).[2]
  2. punch (drink made of wine, diluted with juices, syrups and fruit, often with added cognac or rhum)
    zemeņu bole – strawberry punch
    boles trauks – punch bowl

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Declension of bole (5th)
singular
(vienskaitlis) 		plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominative bole boles
genitive boles boļu
dative bolei bolēm
accusative boli boles
instrumental boli bolēm
locative bolē bolēs
vocative bole boles

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  1. ^ “bole” in Juris Baldunčiks (1989), Anglicismi latviešu valodā (Rīga: «Zinātne») →ISBN.
  2. ^ Brasche G., (1880), Deutsch-lettisches Wörterbuch, Riga; Leipzig, page 152.

Lower Sorbian

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Verb

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bole

  1. superseded spelling of bóle

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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    From a conflation of Old English bula, *bulla, and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈbul(ə)/, /ˈboːl(ə)/, /ˈbɔːl(ə)/

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    bole (plural boles or bolen)

    2. bull, steer, male cow
    3. (heraldry) A heraldic bull
    4. (astrology) Taurus (zodiac)
    5. (astronomy) Taurus (constellation)
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    • English: bull
    • Scots: bul, bull

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    Etymology 2

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      Borrowed from Old Norse bolr.

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      bole (plural boles)

      2. trunk, bole
      3. tree
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      Middle High German

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      Etymology

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      From Old High German bolla, from Proto-West Germanic *bollā.

      Compare Middle Low German bōle, Low German Bohle, German Bohle, Dutch boel (“plank, board”).

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      bole f

      1. plank, board, thick wooden board

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      Declension of bole (strong feminine in -e)
      singular plural
      indef. def. noun def. noun
      nominative ein diu bole die bole
      genitive einer dër bole dër bolen
      dative einer dër bole dën bolen
      accusative eine die bole die bole

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      References

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      • Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “bole”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
      • Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “bole”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎[2] (in German), 3rd edition

      Norwegian Bokmål

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      Etymology

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      Clipping of anabol + -e

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      bole (present tense boler, past tense bolte, past participle bolt)

      1. (colloquial) To use anabolic steroids to increase one's muscle mass.

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      bole

      1. banana

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      • Perangin Angin, Dalan Mehuli (2023), Kamus Pagu-Indonesia-Inggris, Jakarta: Penerbit BRIN

      Polish

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      Etymology

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      Perhaps a dialectal variant of bal (“ball, dance”), as it was glossed as zabawa (“fun, amusement”) in a folklore lexicon.[1]

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      bole n

      1. (Przemyśl) synonym of gościna
        Zaprosiuł na bole. ― He invited [them] to a visit.

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      1. ^
        2018, “Bajka zwierzęca”, in Violetta Wróblewska, editor, Słownik polskiej bajki ludowej, →ISBN:
        Zaprosiuu wilk lisa na bole (zabawę).
        The wolf invited the fox to a bole (“amusement”).
        (T 102; Saloni 1898, s. 742)

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      • Aleksander Saloni (1899), “bole”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny‎[3] (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 237

      Portuguese

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      Verb

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      bole

      1. inflection of bolar:
        1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
        2. third-person singular imperative
      2. inflection of bulir:
        1. third-person singular present indicative
        2. second-person singular imperative
      3. inflection of bolir:
        1. third-person singular present indicative
        2. second-person singular imperative

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      Participle

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      bole (Cyrillic spelling боле)

      1. feminine plural active past participle of bosti

      West Makian

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      Etymology

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      From Malay boleh (“can, may, possible”).

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      bole

      1. good, fine!

      References

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      • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[4], Pacific linguistics
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