bolo

See also: Bolo and BOLO

English

bolo machetes

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊləʊ

Etymology 1

From Philippine Spanish bolo.

Noun

bolo (plural bolos)

1. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
2. (attributive) a type of punch; an uppercut.
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 141:

     He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.

See also

• golok (Indonesian & Malaysian)
• machete
• parang
• itak (Filipino)
• tabak (Filipino)
• sundang (Filipino)

Verb

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.

Etymology 2

Supposedly named after Bolo Pascha, a German agent in France during World War I.

Noun

bolo (plural bolos)

1. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Verb

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Etymology 3

From Argentine Spanish boleadora (“lariat”).

Noun

bolo (plural bolos)

1. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.

Derived terms

• bolo tie

Verb

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. (transitive, nonce word) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

Etymology 4

An acronym of Be on the lookout.

Alternative forms

• BOLO

Noun

bolo (plural bolos)

1. (US law enforcement) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.

Synonyms

• all-points bulletin, APB

References

• “bolo”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• Lobo, bloo, bool, lobo, loob, obol

Bambara

Etymology

Cognate with Eastern Maninkakan bólo.

Noun

bolo

1. (anatomy) arm, hand

References

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

Galician

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔlo̝/

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. sand lance (Ammodytes)

   Synonym: areeiro

Etymology 2

From bola (“piece of bread”), from Latin bulla (“bubble”).

Bolos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbolo̝/

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. bun, roll
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 129:

     Para esto ual o ouo torrado ataa que se faça duro et depois tollelle a casca et faz tal como bollo

     For this you must use egg, roasted till its hard; remove then the shell and make a roll with it

2. piece of bread
   • 1396, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 449:

     daredes hun dia de seara de cada anno en a nosa granja de Vales, e hun bolo de triigo

     and you'll give a day of work each year at our farm of Vales, and a piece of wheat bread

3. ball of butter

   Synonym: pela

4. lump

   Synonym: grumo

5. clod

   Synonym: terrón

6. pebble

   Synonym: croio

Derived terms

• bolo do pote (“dumpling”)
• furabolos (“forefinger”, literally “bun-piercer”)

Related terms

• bola

References

• “bolo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bolo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bolo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bolo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English bowl, French bol, German Bowle, Spanish bol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbolo/

Noun

bolo (plural boli)

1. bowl

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin bōlus (“clod of earth, lump”), from Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod, lump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔlo
• Hyphenation: bò‧lo

Noun

bolo m (plural boli)

1. bolus
2. cud

Anagrams

• lobo, oblò

Javanese

Noun

bolo

1. Nonstandard spelling of bala.

Koasati

Noun

bolo

1. bream

Lingala

Etymology

From French bore.

Noun

bolo class 9 (plural bolo class 10, colloquial plural babolo class 2)

1. (chemistry) boron

Macanese

bolo

Alternative forms

• bôlo

Etymology

From Portuguese bolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbolu/

Noun

bolo

1. Alternative form of bôlo: cake

Derived terms

• bôlo bate-pau (“mooncake”)
• bôlo mârmre (“marble cake”)
• bôlo minino
• bôlo nata
• bôlo supiám

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Portuguese

bolo (1.1)

Etymology 1

From bola. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.lu/

• Rhymes: -olu
• Hyphenation: bo‧lo

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. (cooking) cake
   1. dessert made with dough and sugar; common in celebrations
   2. any of various snacks made with dough, both sweet and salty

      Synonym: bolinho

2. bunch, heap, mass (load of some material or of beings)

   Synonyms: monte, amontoado

   1. a bunch of money
3. prize, reward

   Synonyms: prêmio, recompensa

4. (Brazil) something said or done to mislead or deceive

   Synonyms: enganação, burla

5. (Brazil) disarray, disorder chaos

   Synonyms: desordem, caos, confusão

6. (Brazil, slang) the act of standing someone up (missing an appointment)

   Synonym: furo

Derived terms

• a cereja do bolo
• abolar
• bolacha
• bolada
• bolão
• bolar
• boleima
• bolinho
• bolo alimentar
• bolo alimentício
• bolo baeta
• bolo chibo
• bolo de anjo
• bolo de arroz
• bolo de bacia
• bolo de caneca
• bolo de cenoura
• bolo de chocolate
• bolo de claras
• bolo de gengibre
• bolo de milho
• bolo de noiva
• bolo de pote
• bolo de rolo
• bolo de tabuleiro
• bolo do caco
• bolo fecal
• bolo floresta negra
• bolo histérico
• bolo inglês
• bolo lêvedo
• bolo lunar
• bolo-armênio
• bolo-formigueiro
• bolo-mármore
• bololô
• dar bolo em
• dar o bolo
• dar um bolo
• embolar
• fazer num bolo
• ficar num bolo
• fura-bolos
• levar bolo

 

Descendants

• → Indonesian: bolu
• Kabuverdianu: bolu
• Macanese: bolo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.lu/

Verb

bolo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bolar

Anagrams

• lobo

Further reading

• “bolo” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “bolo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “bolo” in Dicionário Online de Português.
• “bolo” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “bolo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “bolo” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “bolo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

bolo (Cyrillic spelling боло)

1. neuter singular active past participle of bosti

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɔlɔ]

Participle

bolo

1. neuter singular l-participle of byť

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbolo/ [ˈbo.lo]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: bo‧lo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin bolus.

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. bowling pin
2. bolus
3. (in the plural) bowling

Derived terms

• bolo alimenticio
• corbata de bolo

 

Adjective

bolo (feminine bola, masculine plural bolos, feminine plural bolas)

1. (colloquial, Central America) drunk

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borracho

Derived terms

• bolencia

 

Related terms

• bola

 

Etymology 2

Clipping of bolívar.

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. (Venezuela, slang) a bolívar (Venezuelan unit of currency)

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. (colloquial) gig

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Tagalog bolo.

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. (Philippines) bolo (long, single-edged machete)

Further reading

• “bolo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbolo/ [ˈbo.lo]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: bo‧lo

Noun

bolo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜓ)

1. bolo (long, single-edged machete)

Related terms

• gulok
• itak

Ternate

Conjunction

bolo

1. or

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh