bulan
Alangan
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Azerbaijani
Bakung
Etymology
From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Balinese
Baram Kayan
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Bikol Central
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbulan/, [ˈbu.l̪an̪]
- Hyphenation: bu‧lan
Noun
búlan (Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)
Derived terms
- bulan-bulan
- bulanan
- bulanon
Related terms
Bintulu
Etymology
From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Brooke's Point Palawano
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Brunei Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *bulan (compare Malay bulan), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bulan/
- Hyphenation: bu‧lan
Cebuano
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bu‧lan
- (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈbulan/, [ˈbu.l̪ʌn̪]
- (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) IPA(key): /ˈbuwan/, [ˈbu.ʌn̪]
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bulan.
Derived terms
- binulan (“monthly; to do something monthly”)
- binulanan (“household help”)
- bulan-bulan (“every month”)
- bulanbulan (“tarpon; moon shell with edible flesh”)
- bulanon (“moonlight; having a weak eyesight”)
- dulom nga bulan (“first and second days of the third quarter”)
- haya ang bulan (“horizontal crescent moon”)
- himatayon ang bulan (“third quarter”)
- lunod ang bulan (“new moon”)
- pabulan (“to hire as a servant”)
- patay ang bulan (“new moon”)
- payong sa bulan (“ring around moon”)
- primero nga bulan (“first and second days of the third quarter”)
- udto nga bulan (“half moon”)
- udtong lunod ang bulan (“half moon of the third quarter”)
Dairi Batak
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Dupaningan Agta
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Galician
Verb
bulan
- inflection of bulir:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Higaonon
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Hiligaynon
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Ibaloi
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Iban
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Ilocano
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbulan/, [ˈbu.lan]
- Hyphenation: bu‧lan
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay bulan, from Classical Malay bulan, from Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Doublet of rembulan and wulan. The sense “any natural satellite of a planet” is a semantic loan from Dutch maan (“moon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbulan/, [ˈbu.lan]
(file) - Rhymes: -lan, -an, -n
- Hyphenation: bu‧lan
Noun
bulan (first-person possessive bulanku, second-person possessive bulanmu, third-person possessive bulannya)
- moon:
- largest natural satellite of planet Earth.
- Pada tahun 1969, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin menjadi manusia pertama yang menginjakkan kakinya di permukaan Bulan.
- In 1969, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first person to walk the Moon's surface.
- any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet.
- Bulan Titan yang mengorbit planet Saturnus memiliki kandungan hidrokarbon yang signifikan.
- The moon Titan, that orbits Saturn, has significant numbers of hydrocarbon.
- largest natural satellite of planet Earth.
- month (period into which a year is divided)
- Kami harus membayar tagihan air setiap bulan.
- We have to pay the water bill every month.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- berbulan
- berbulan-bulan
- bulan-bulanan
- bulanan
- membulan
- membulan-bulani
- bulan bahasa dan sastra
- bulan baru
- bulan bintang
- bulan biru
- bulan darah
- bulan dimakan Rahu
- bulan gelap
- bulan gerhana
- bulan haji
- bulan kapangan
- bulan kembar
- bulan kesiangan
- bulan madu
- bulan mati
- bulan muda
- bulan panen
- bulan penuh
- bulan puasa
- bulan purnama
- bulan Ruwah
- bulan sabit
- bulan sabit baru
- bulan sabit tua
- bulan suci
- bulan Sura
- bulan surut
- bulan susut
- bulan timbul
- bulan tua
Further reading
- “bulan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
Kapampangan
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbulən/, [ˈbuː.lən]
- Hyphenation: bu‧lan
Noun
búlan
Derived terms
- bulan-bulan
- bulanan
- pabulan
- telabulan
Karo Batak
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Kayapa Kallahan
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Kelabit
Etymology
From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Limos Kalinga
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Malay
Etymology
From Classical Malay bulan, from Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as [script needed] (vulan).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bulan]
- Rhymes: -ulan, -lan, -an
Audio (MY) (file)
Noun
bulan (Jawi spelling بولن, plural bulan-bulan, informal 1st possessive bulanku, 2nd possessive bulanmu, 3rd possessive bulannya)
Derived terms
- berbulan
- berbulan-bulan
- bulanan
- membulan
- anak bulan
- baju bulan
- bulan baru
- bulan bintang
- bulan biru
- bulan darah
- bulan dimakan Rahu
- bulan gelap
- bulan gerhana
- bulan haji
- bulan kembar
- bulan kesiangan
- bulan madu
- bulan penuh
- bulan puasa
- bulan purnama
- bulan sabit
- bulan sabit baru
- bulan sabit tua
- bulan suci
- bulan timbul
- bulan tua
Descendants
- Indonesian: bulan
References
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “بولن bulan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 132
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “bulan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 161-2
Further reading
- “bulan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Masbatenyo
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Matigsalug Manobo
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Ngaju
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Old Javanese
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Noun
bulan
Descendants
- Javanese: bulan
Ratagnon
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Remontado Agta
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Romanian
Sasak
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Sundanese
Swedish
Tagalog
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Cebuano bulan from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Proposed by Eusebio Daluz by the 20th century to use the Visayan word instead of Tagalog buwan (“moon; month”) to distinguish “moon” and “month” to have equivalents for Spanish luna (“moon”) and Spanish mes (“month”). Doublet of buwan.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lɐn]
- Rhymes: -ulan
- Syllabification: bu‧lan
- Homophone: Bulan
Derived terms
- bagong bulan
- bulang gasuklay
- bulang kabilugan
- bulang nagbibilog
- bulang nagdudurog
- patay na bulan
- talabulanan
Related terms
Further reading
- del Rosario, Gonsalo (1969) Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino [Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino] (overall work in English and Tagalog), Manila: National Book Store, Inc., →LCCN, →OL
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Toba Batak
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Turkish
Yakan
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Yogad
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.