bullir

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin bullīre (to bubble, boil), from bulla (bubble). Cognate with Catalan bullir, Occitan bolhir and French bouillir

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /buˈʎi(ɾ)/
  • Rhymes: -i(ɾ)
  • Syllabification: bu‧llir

Verb

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bullir

  1. to boil

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From Latin bullīre (to bubble, boil), from bulla (bubble). Cognate with Aragonese bullir, Occitan bolhir and French bouillir

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Verb

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bullir (first-person singular present bullo, first-person singular preterite bullí, past participle bullit)

  1. to boil

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin bullīre, present active participle of bulliō (to bubble, boil), from bulla (bubble).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /buˈʝiɾ/ [buˈʝiɾ]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /buˈʎiɾ/ [buˈʎiɾ]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /buˈʃiɾ/ [buˈʃiɾ]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /buˈʒiɾ/ [buˈʒiɾ]

  • Rhymes: -iɾ
  • Syllabification: bu‧llir

Verb

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bullir (first-person singular present bullo, first-person singular preterite bullí, past participle bullido)

  1. (intransitive) to boil (to begin to turn into a gas)
    Synonym: hervir
  2. (intransitive) to boil, to bubble, to churn (to be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce)
    Synonym: borbotear
  3. (intransitive) to bustle (to move busily and energetically)
  4. (figurative) to bubble, to bubble up, to well up (to churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface)
    • 1888, Roberto Payró, Novelas y fantasías, page 190:
      Los muros de su espléndida casa le parecian estrechos para las nuevas ideas que bullían en su mente, que para su desarrollo necesitaban aire, espacio, luz...
      The walls of her magnificent house seemed to her too narrow for the new ideas that bubbled in her mind, which for their development needed air, space, light...
  5. (intransitive) to teem, to abound
    Synonyms: hervir, abundar
  6. (transitive) to move, to budge (part of one's body)

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