noun, feminine/bul/plural: boules
ball, globe; bowl (in the game of bowls); scoop (for example, of ice cream); bauble; head or face
“Il jette la boule.” — He throws the bowl.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bullader.? Frankish *bollāder.? Old French bole Middle French boule French boule Inherited from Middle French boule, from Old French bole (“knob”), from either Latin bulla (“bubble”), in which case it is a doublet of bulle (which was borrowed later); or from Frankish *bollā (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”), in which case it is a doublet of bol.