Noun: bostela
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | bostela |
| Plural f | bostelas |
Sample Sentences
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Non esbardallédes, Compadre; / habedevos de facer de cargo, / eu tiben un armallo á morte, / a Minjota cunha frebe / é os Rapases con bostelas, / mirà vos como podia / sair siquera da casa: (Don't rant, my friend. Consider that I had a bull just about to day, Mingota with a fever, and the children with pox; you'll tell me how I was supposed to even leave my house) [1807, anonymous author, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:]
Nouns inflected like bostela
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since circa 1750. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from *pustella, a diminutive from Latin pustula. Compare Portuguese bostela, Asturian postiella, Spanish postilla. See: Latin Nouns '
pustula', Portuguese Nouns '
bostela', Asturian Nouns '
postiella', Spanish Nouns '
postilla'.
Verbs referencing "bostela"
Spanish Nouns
postilla.
Translations