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Etymology
Image:Soap Bubble - foliage background - iridescent colours - Traquair 040801.jpg|thumb|right|Soap bubbles.
Partly imitative, also influenced by term|burble.

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-bubble.ogg|Audio (US)
:rhymes|�b�l

Noun
en-noun

1. A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.
2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
3. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4. A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.

Translations
trans-top|spherically contained volume of air
Czech: t|cs|bublina|f
French: t|fr|bulle|f
Hebrew: t|he|��ע�|tr=bu'a|f
Hungarian: t|hu|buborék
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Kurdish: t|ku|sc=KUchar|بڵ�
Latin: t|la|bulla|f
Spanish: t|es|burbuja|f, t|es|pompa|f (soap bubble)
Telugu: బ�డ� (buDaga)
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trans-top|small spherical cavity in a solid
French: trou m
trans-mid
Kurdish: KUchar|بڵ�
Telugu: బ�డ� (buDaga)
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trans-top|anything resembling a hollow sphere
trans-mid
Kurdish: KUchar|بڵ�
Telugu: బ�డ� (buDaga)
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trans-top|period of intense speculation in a market
French: bulle f
Hebrew: ��ע� (bu'a) f
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Telugu: బ�డ� (buDaga)
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rfc-trans
trans-top|Translations to categorise
Bavarian: Blodan f
Finnish: kupla
German: Blase f
Indonesian: gelembung
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Japanese: 泡 (��, awa), ��� (baburu)
Korean: 거� (geopum)
Lithuanian: burbulas m
Português: bolha f
Swedish: bubbla c
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Related terms
rel-top|terms related to "bubble"
bubbly
bubble bath
bubble chamber
bubble era
bubble gum
bubble jet printer
bubble wrap
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bubble and squeak
housing bubble
land bubble
stock bubble
on the bubble
bubble team
boy in the bubble
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Verb
en-verb|bubbl|es

1. intransitive To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
2. context|transitive|archaic To cheat, delude.
3. context|intransitive|Scotland|Northern England To cry, weep.

Quotations
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Translations
trans-top|to rise up in bubbles
Finnish: kuplia, poreilla
Hungarian: buborékol, bugyborékol
trans-mid
Korean: ��거리� (bugeul-georida)
Kurdish: KUchar|بڵ� کرد�, KUchar|بڵ���بڵ� کرد�
Swedish: bubbla
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trans-top|to cheat, delude
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trans-top|to cry, weep
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References
R:Dobson & Irwin Newcastle 1970
R:New Geordie Dictionary 1987
R:Northeast Dialect 2005

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