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boll.

a ball; a more or less spherical object which is not hard or unyielding (compare kula)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɔl/

  1. a ball; a more or less spherical object which is not hard or unyielding (compare kula)

    common-gender

  2. a ball (pass)

    common-gender

  3. a ball (testicle)

    colloquial · common-gender · in-plural · often

  4. head

    colloquial · common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish balder, baller, from Old Norse bǫllr (“ball, globe”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“round thing, bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”).

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