Bole

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A Chadic language native to Nigeria.
• county-level city autonomous prefecture, Bortala Xinjiang (autonomous region) China (country).
• town Ghana (country).
• village/and/civil parish Nottinghamshire (county) England (constituent country).

Origin

• Borrowed from Mandarin .
• Uncertain. Theories include derivation from Akan bɔro ("sweet"), Nuer bɛɛl ("grape"), and Gonja bɔl ("submission").
• From earlier Bolle, ultimately from either the dative singular bolde or dative plural boldum of bold; the latter is perhaps suggested by its attestation in the Domesday Book as Medieval Latin Bolun.