Definitions
- 1.colloquiala Muslim woman in harem pants or covered with a headscarf
- 2.colloquiala married woman
- 3.bull (blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion)
- 4.an empty space
- 5.Islamic religion teacher
- 6.Islamic clerk or official
- 7.bull (seal affixed to a document)
- 8.charter with such bull
- 9.a box in which a seal is stored
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بولا (bola, bula, “wife of one’s paternal uncle; lady, miss”).