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

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

bullir

1. to boil

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [buˈʎi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [buˈʎiɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)
• Homophone: bullí (except Valencian)

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

1. to boil

• “bullir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bullir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bullir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bullir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• ebullir

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

• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: bu‧llir

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)

• “bullir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10