different between boucle vs boule

English

Etymology

From French boucler (“to buckle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bukl/

Noun

boucle (countable and uncountable, plural boucles)

1. A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
2. Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French boucle, bocle, from Latin buccula (“the cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bukl/

Noun

boucle f (plural boucles)

1. loop (line returning to its origin)
2. (jewellery) earring
3. buckle (of a belt, etc.)
4. curl (of hair)
5. ringlet
6. (graph theory) loop
7. (figure skating) loop jump
8. (aviation) loop the loop (aircraft manoeuvre)

Derived terms

• boucle infinie
• boucler la boucle
• Grande Boucle
• boucle d'oreille
• en boucle

Related terms

• boucler
• bouclette

Descendants

• Catalan: bucle
• Galician: bucle
• Portuguese: bucle
• ? Romanian: bucl?
• Russian: ?????? (búklja)
• Spanish: bucle

Further reading

• “boucle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

From Latin buccula, diminutive of bucca (“cheek”). Compare Anglo-Norman bucle.

Noun

boucle f (oblique plural boucles, nominative singular boucle, nominative plural boucles)

1. buckle

Descendants

• French: boucle
• Norman: boucl'ye (Jersey)
• ? Middle English: bokel
  • English: buckle
  • Yola: boouchel
• ? Middle High German: buckel
  • German: Buckel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?l/

Etymology 1

From French boule. Doublet of bull and bulla.

Noun

boule (plural boules)

1. One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
2. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
3. A round loaf of bread.
4. A round piece of dough.
5. (woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.

Translations

Verb

boule (third-person singular simple present boules, present participle bouling, simple past and past participle bouled)

1. (transitive, cooking, rare, nonstandard) To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of Boulle. See buhl.

Noun

boule (usually uncountable, plural boules)

1. (woodworking) Alternative form of buhl

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (boul?).

Noun

boule (plural boules)

1. (historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece

Related terms

• bouleuterion
• bouleutes

Translations

Anagrams

• Lobue

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bou?l?]
• Rhymes: -oul?

Noun

boule f

1. bulge, protuberance
2. bump, swelling

Further reading

• boule in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• boule in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology 1

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 *boll? (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul/

Noun

boule f (plural boules)

1. ball, globe
2. bowl (in the game of bowls)

3. scoop (of e.g. ice cream)

4. bauble
5. (informal) head or face
6. (France, slang) ball, testicle
7. (Quebec, slang) tit, breast

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: boule

Noun

boule m (plural boules)

1. (slang) butt, bum, ass

Etymology 2

Verb

boule

1. first-person singular present indicative of bouler
2. third-person singular present indicative of bouler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bouler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of bouler
5. second-person singular imperative of bouler

Further reading

• “boule” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French brûler (“to burn”)

Verb

boule

1. to burn

Derived terms

• n'ap boule

Norman

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

boule f (plural boules)

1. (Jersey, nautical) buoy

Derived terms

• boule d'sauvetage (“life belt”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bo.ule]

Noun

boule m

1. vocative singular of bou