bulan

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulán

1. moon

bulan

1. subject non-past participle of bulmaq

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

bulan

1. Romanization of ᬩᬸᬮᬦ᭄.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.l̪an̪]
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

búlan (Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon
2. month

From Proto-Malayic *bulan (compare Malay bulan), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

• IPA^(key): /bulan/
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. month (period into which a year is divided)

• bolan — archaic spelling
• buwan — dialectal

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.l̪ɐn̪]
• (l-eliding dialects) IPA^(key): /ˈbuwan/ [ˈbu.wɐn̪]
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

bulan (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

1. the Moon
   1. moon of other planets
2. month

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /buˈlan/ [bʊˈl̪an̪]
• (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) IPA^(key): /buˈan/ [ˈbwan̪]

bulán (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

1. to hire a servant

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bulan.

• Fr. Juan Felis de la Encarnación (1851) Diccionario bisaya-español‎^[1] (overall work in Cebuano and Spanish), Amigos del País, page 69
• John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan‎^[2] (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon
2. month

bulan

1. inflection of bulir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lɐn]
• Rhymes: -ulan
• Syllabification: bu‧lan

bulan (Hanunoo spelling ᜪᜳᜮᜨ᜴)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. month (period into which a year is divided)

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 89

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

búlan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon
2. month

From Proto-Malayic *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lan]
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

bulan (Kur-itan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

• boelan (obsolete, pre-1947)

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”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbu.lan]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ulan
• Syllabification: bu‧lan

bulan (first-person possessive bulanku, second-person possessive bulanmu, third-person possessive bulannya)

1. moon:
   1. largest natural satellite of planet Earth.

      Bulan malam ini sangat bulat. ― The moon is very round tonight.

      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.

   2. 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.

2. month (period into which a year is divided)

   Kami harus membayar tagihan air setiap bulan.

   We have to pay the water bill every month.

• (natural satellite of a planet): satelit, satelit alami
• (moon): candra, kamar, rembulan, sasi
• (month): purnama, wulan

• “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.

bulan

1. Romanization of ꦧꦸꦭꦤ꧀

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulən/ [ˈbuː.lən]
• Hyphenation: bu‧lan

búlan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon
2. month

From Proto-North Sarawak *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon
2. month

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).

• IPA^(key): [bulan]
• Rhymes: -ulan, -lan, -an

• Audio (Malaysia):

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bulan (Jawi spelling بولن, plural bulan-bulan, informal 1st possessive bulanku, 2nd possessive bulanmu, 3rd possessive bulannya)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

   Aku pergi ke sana dua kali untuk setiap bulan.

   I go there twice for every month.

• (moon):
  • alkamar / القمر
  • cendera / چندرا
  • kamar / قمر
  • rembulan / رمبولن

• (antonym(s) of “sun”):
  • matahari / ماتاهاري

• Indonesian: bulan

• 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

• “bulan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon
2. month

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. month
2. moon

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. month (period into which a year is divided)

• Javanese: bulan

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon
2. month

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

búlan

1. moon
2. month

Borrowed from Romani bul (“buttocks”).

bulan n (plural bulane)

1. (slang) good luck
2. (slang) leg

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

bulan

1. Romanization of ᮘᮥᮜᮔ᮪

bulan

1. definite singular of bula

Learned borrowing from Cebuano bulan from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Proposed by Eusebio Daluz by the 20^th 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.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbulan/ [ˈbuː.lɐn̪]
• Rhymes: -ulan
• Syllabification: bu‧lan
• Homophone: Bulan

bulan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔) (neologism)

1. moon

   Synonyms: buwan, (rare) luna

• 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
• Daluz, Eusebio T. (1915) Filipino-English vocabulary: with practical example of Filipino and English grammars, Manila: Akademya ng Wikang Filipino, page 12.
• Lope K. Santos (1938) Gabriel A. Bernardo, transl., Sources and means for further enrichment of Tagalog as our national language‎^[3], Manila : University of the Philippines, pages 123–124

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /bulan/ [bʊˈlan̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: bu‧lan

bulan (Sulat Sūg spelling بُلَنْ)

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth)
2. moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
3. month (period into which a year is divided)

bulan

1. imperfect participle of bulmak

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulan

1. moon
2. month

From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

bulán

1. moon
2. month