Noun: boule
Gender: f
m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | boule |
| Singular f | boule |
| Plural m | boules |
| Plural f | boules |
Sample Sentences
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Il jette la boule. (He throws the bowl.)
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2 boules de glace. (2 scoops of ice cream)
Nouns inflected like boule
fétichiste,
modérantiste,
odontologiste,
fiduciaire,
cryptanalyste,
selfie,
neurologiste,
Sud-Est-Asiatique,
acridophage,
schizo,
motoneigiste,
bolchévique,
urbaniste,
activiste,
phalliste,
acrostiche,
électrosensible,
humaniste,
aromathérapeute,
œconomiste, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.?
4. Latin bullader.?
5. Frankish *bollāder.?
6. Old French bole
7. Middle French boule
8. French boule
9. 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. See: Latin Nouns '
bulla'.
Verbs referencing "boule"
English Nouns
boule.
Translations