bottle

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɒt.l̩/
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• Canada, General-American: bŏtʹəl
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈbɑ.tl̩/
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• South-Asia: /ˈbɔʈɪl/
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• South-Asia: /-əl/
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• rhymes with -ɒtəl
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• CMU ARPABET: B AA1 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheHw-der. Ancient Greekbor.? Latin buttis Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Late Latin butticula Old French boteillebor. Middle English botel English bottle From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija. Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Partially displaced Old English flasce.

From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl (“building, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhōw- (literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel (“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel (“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol (“farm”), Icelandic ból (“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English bytlan (“to build”). More at build.

From Middle English botel (“bundle (of hay)”), from Old French botel, ultimately related to modern French botte (“bundle”).

417 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bottel — container
• Ainu: トㇰクリ (tokkuri) — container
• Albanian: shishe — container
• Southern Altai: шише (šiše) — container
• Southern Altai: бутылка (butïlka) — container
• Southern Altai: бутулка (butulka) — container
• Amharic: ጠርሙዝ (ṭärmuz) — container
• Arabic: زُجَاجَة (zujāja) — container
• Arabic: قِنِّينَة (qinnīna) — container
• Arabic: قزازة (ʔezāza) — container
• Arabic: بطل (buṭuḷ) — container
• Arabic: قارورة (gārūra) — container
• Arabic: قُزازة (guzāza) — container
• Arabic: قرعة (qarʕa) — container
• Arabic: قنّينة (ʔannīne, ʔannīni, qannīni) — container
• Arabic: قنّينة (ʔannīne) — container
• Arabic: قنية (qiniyya) — container
• Arabic: قزازة (qzāza) — container
• Aragonese: botella — container
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܲܢܝܼܢܬܵܐ (qanīntā) — container
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܘܿܛܘܼܠܵܐ (bōṭūlā) — container
• Archi: шуша (šuša) — container
• Armenian: շիշ (šiš) — container
• Aromanian: shíshe — container
• Assamese: বটল (botol) — container
• Asturian: botella — container
• Aukan: bataa — container
• Avar: шиша (šiša) — container
• Azerbaijani: şüşə — container
• Azerbaijani: butulka — container
• Bangi: molangi — container
• Bashkir: шешә (şeşə) — container
• Basque: botila — container
• Belarusian: бутэ́лька (butélʹka) — container
• Bengali: বোতল (bōtol) — container
• Breton: boutailh — container
• Bulgarian: бути́лка (butílka) — container
• Bulgarian: шише́ (šišé) — container
• Burmese: ပုလင်း (pu.lang:) — container
• Catalan: ampolla — container
• Catalan: botella — container
• Catalan: bòtil — container
• Chichewa: botolo — container
• Chickasaw: kitoba — container
• Chinese Cantonese: 樽 (zeon1) — container
• Chinese Cantonese: 瓶 (peng4) — container
• Chinese: пинзы (pinzɨ) — container
• Eastern Min Chinese: 瓶瓶 — container
• Hakka Chinese: 盎仔 (âng-é) — container
• Chinese: 矸仔 (kan-á) — container
• Jin Chinese: 瓶子 (ping1 zeh) — container
• Chinese Mandarin: 瓶子 (píngzi) — container
• Chinese Mandarin: 瓶 (píng) — container
• Wu Chinese: 瓶 — container
• Wu Chinese: 瓶子 (6bin-tsy) — container
• Chinook Jargon: laputay — container
• Chukchi: тэнмэмлыёчгын (tėnmėmlyjočgyn) — container
• Coptic: ⲃⲁⲗⲕⲟⲩ (balkou) — container
• Corsican: buttiglia — container
• Crimean Tatar: şişe — container
• Czech: láhev — container
• Czech: flaška — container
• Dalmatian: bosaun — container
• Dalmatian: botaila — container
• Danish: flaske — container
• Dutch: fles — container
• Dzongkha: དམ་སྦྱིས (dam sbyis) — container
• Elfdalian: putell — container
• Elfdalian: flaska — container
• Esperanto: botelo — container
• Estonian: pudel — container
• Ewe: atukpa — container
• Faroese: fløska — container
• Finnish: pullo — container
• French: bouteille — container
• Galician: botella — container
• Galician: garrafa — container
• Galician: frasco — container
• Galician: limeta — container
• Galician: libeta — container
• Georgian: ბოთლი (botli) — container
• German: Flasche — container
• German: Bouteille — container
• German: Butëlle — container
• German: Guttere — container
• Greek: μπουκάλι (boukáli) — container
• Greek: φιάλη (fiáli) — container
• Ancient Greek: λάγυνος (lágunos) — container
• Greenlandic: puiaasaq — container
• Gujarati: બાટલી (bāṭlī) — container
• Haitian Creole: boutèy — container
• Hawaiian: hue — container
• Hawaiian: ʻōmole — container
• Hebrew: בַּקְבּוּק (bakbúk) — container
• Hindi: शीशी (śīśī) — container
• Hindi: बोतल (botal) — container
• Hindi: शीशा (śīśā) — container
• Hungarian: üveg — container
• Hungarian: palack — container
• Iban: jebul — container
• Iban: pucung — container
• Icelandic: flaska — container
• Ido: botelo — container
• Igbo: aba — container
• Igbo: karama — container
• Indonesian: botol — container
• Ingrian: puteli — container
• Ingrian: nopo — container
• Interlingua: bottilia — container
• Inuktitut: imertarfik — container
• Irish: buidéal — container
• Isoko: ololo — container
• Isoko: ọgọ — container
• Italian: bottiglia — container
• Jamaican Creole: bokl — container
• Jamaican Creole: bakl — container
• Japanese: 瓶 (bin) — container
• Javanese: gendul — container
• Jeju: 펭 (peng) — container
• Jingpho: paleng — container
• Kabuverdianu: garáfa — container
• Kannada: ಬಾಟಲಿ (bāṭali) — container
• Kazakh: бөтелке (bötelke) — container
• Kazakh: шөлмек (şölmek) — container
• Kazakh: шиша (şişa) — container
• Ket: postup — container
• Khmer: ដប (dɑɑp) — container
• Kongo: mulangi — container
• Korean: 병 (byeong) — container
• Northern Kurdish: şûşe — container
• Northern Kurdish: betl — container
• Northern Kurdish: botl — container
• Kyrgyz: бөтөлкө (bötölkö) — container
• Kyrgyz: бутылка (butılka) — container
• Kyrgyz: шише (şişe) — container
• Lao: ຂວດ (khūat) — container
• Lao: ແກ້ວ (kǣu) — container
• Latin: ampulla — container
• Latin: lagēna — container
• Latvian: pudele — container
• Lezgi: шуьше (šüše) — container
• Lingala: molangi — container
• Lithuanian: butelis — container
• Luxembourgish: Fläsch — container
• Macedonian: шише (šiše) — container
• Macedonian: флаша (flaša) — container
• Makah: lapu·ta·y — container
• Malay: botol — container
• Malay: jebul (Kelantan-Pattani) — container
• Brunei Malay: butul — container
• Malayalam: കുപ്പി (kuppi) — container
• Maltese: flixkun — container
• Manx: boteil — container
• Manx: costrayl — container
• Māori: tahā — container
• Māori: pounamu — container
• Māori: pātara — container
• Marathi: बाटली (bāṭalī) — container
• Middle English: botel — container
• Mirandese: frasco — container
• Mirandese: garrafa — container
• Mirandese: baso — container
• Moksha: сюлека (śuleka) — container
• Mongolian: шил (šil) — container
• Mongolian: лонх (lonx) — container
• Moore: bugtelle — container
• Moore: butelle — container
• Moore: kolbre — container
• Nahuatl: tecontli — container
• Nepali: बोतल (botal) — container
• Norman: boutelle — container
• Norwegian Bokmål: flaske — container
• Norwegian Nynorsk: flaske — container
• Nyah Kur: ควด — container
• Occitan: botelha — container
• Odia: ବୋତଲ (botala) — container
• Ojibwe: omooday — container
• Church Slavic: лагꙑ (lagy) — container
• Old English: flasce — container
• Old English: pinne — container
• Old English: ampelle — container
• Pannonian Rusyn: фляша (fljaša) — container
• Pannonian Rusyn: склєнка (skljenka) — container
• Papiamentu: bòter — container
• Pashto: بوتل (botal) — container
• Pashto: شيشه (šiša) — container
• Pennsylvania German: Boddel — container
• Dari: بوتَل (bōtal) — container
• Dari: شِیشَه (šīša) — container
• Iranian Persian: بُطْری (botri) — container
• Iranian Persian: شیشِه (šiše) — container
• Plautdietsch: Buddel (nds) — container
• Polish: butelka — container
• Polish: flaszka — container
• Portuguese: garrafa — container
• Portuguese: botelha — container
• Punjabi: ਬੋਤਲ (botal) — container
• Punjabi: بوتَل (botal) — container
• Romanian: sticlă — container
• Romanian: butelie — container
• Romansh: buttiglia — container
• Russian: буты́лка (butýlka) — container
• Russian: фля́жка (fljážka) — container
• Rwanda-Rundi: icupa — container
• Rwanda-Rundi: cupa — container
• Northern Sami: bohtal — container
• Northern Sami: boahtal — container
• Samoan: fagu — container
• Sanskrit: कूपी (kūpī) — container
• Scottish Gaelic: botal — container
• Serbo-Croatian: бо̏ца — container
• Serbo-Croatian: фла̏ша — container
• Serbo-Croatian: бутељка — container
• Serbo-Croatian: bȍca — container
• Serbo-Croatian: flȁša — container
• Serbo-Croatian: buteljka — container
• Shan: ပလႅင်း (pǎ léng) — container
• Sicilian: buttigghia — container
• Sinhalese: බෝතලය (bōtalaya) — container
• Slovak: fľaša — container
• Slovene: steklenica — container
• Slovene: buteljka — container
• Somali: qarsho — container
• Somali: qarshad — container
• Somali: quraarad — container
• Upper Sorbian: bleša — container
• Sotho: botlolo — container
• Spanish: botella — container
• Spanish: frasco — container
• Spanish: bótil — container
• Spanish: bórol — container
• Sranan Tongo: batra — container
• Swahili: chupa — container
• Swedish: flaska — container
• Swedish: pava — container
• Tagalog: bote — container
• Tajik: шиша (šiša) — container
• Tajik: суроҳӣ (surohi) — container
• Tajik: зарф (zarf) — container
• Tamil: புட்டி (puṭṭi) — container
• Taos: butéyoną — container
• Tatar: шешә (şeşä) — container
• Tatar: шиша (şişa) — container
• Telugu: సీసా (sīsā) — container
• Tetum: botir — container
• Thai: ขวด (kùuat) — container
• Northern Thai: ᨡ᩠ᩅᨯ (khuad) — container
• Northern Thai: ᨢ᩠ᩅᨯ (xuad) — container
• Tibetan: ཤེལ་དམ (shel dam) — container
• Tigrinya: ጥርሙዝ (ṭərmuz) — container
• Tongan: fangu — container
• Tumbuka: botolo — container
• Turkish: şişe — container
• Ottoman Turkish: شیشه (şişe) — container
• Turkmen: çüýşe — container
• Ukrainian: пля́шка (pljáška) — container
• Ukrainian: буте́лька (butélʹka) — container
• Urdu: بوتَل (botal) — container
• Urdu: شِیشَہ (śīśa) — container
• Urhobo: ọgọ́ — container
• Uyghur: بوتۇلكا (botulka) — container
• Uyghur: شېشە (shëshe) — container
• Uzbek: shisha — container
• Uzbek: butilka — container
• Venetan: bosa — container
• Vietnamese: chai — container
• Walloon: botaye — container
• Welsh: potel — container
• Welsh: costrel — container
• Xhosa: ibhotile — container
• Xhosa: imbodlela — container
• Yakut: бытыылка (bïtïïlka) — container
• Yiddish: פֿלאַש (flash) — container
• Yoruba: ìgò — container
• Yup'ik: putiil'kaaq — container
• Zhuang: bingz — container
• Zulu: bhodlela — container
• Afrikaans: bottel — contents of such a container
• Armenian: շիշ (šiš) — contents of such a container
• Asturian: botella — contents of such a container
• Bashkir: шешә (şeşə) — contents of such a container
• Basque: botilakada — contents of such a container
• Breton: boutailhadoù — contents of such a container
• Bulgarian: бути́лка (butílka) — contents of such a container
• Catalan: ampolla — contents of such a container
• Catalan: botella — contents of such a container
• Catalan: bòtil — contents of such a container
• Czech: láhev — contents of such a container
• Danish: flaske — contents of such a container
• Dutch: fles — contents of such a container
• Esperanto: botelo — contents of such a container
• Ewe: atukpa — contents of such a container
• Faroese: fløska — contents of such a container
• Finnish: pullo — contents of such a container
• Finnish: pullollinen — contents of such a container
• French: bouteille — contents of such a container
• Galician: botella — contents of such a container
• German: Flasche — contents of such a container
• German: Buddel — contents of such a container
• Greek: μπουκάλι (boukáli) — contents of such a container
• Hebrew: בַּקְבּוּק (bakbúk) — contents of such a container
• Irish: buidéal — contents of such a container
• Italian: bottiglia — contents of such a container
• Korean: 한 병의 분령 (han byeong-ui bullyeong) — contents of such a container
• Latvian: pudele — contents of such a container
• Macedonian: шише (šiše) — contents of such a container
• Macedonian: флаша (flaša) — contents of such a container
• Norman: boutelle — contents of such a container
• Norwegian Bokmål: flaske — contents of such a container
• Polish: butelka — contents of such a container
• Portuguese: garrafa — contents of such a container
• Romanian: sticlă — contents of such a container
• Russian: буты́лка (butýlka) — contents of such a container
• Serbo-Croatian: бо̏ца — contents of such a container
• Serbo-Croatian: фла̏ша — contents of such a container
• Serbo-Croatian: бутељка — contents of such a container
• Serbo-Croatian: bȍca — contents of such a container
• Serbo-Croatian: flȁša — contents of such a container
• Serbo-Croatian: buteljka — contents of such a container
• Slovak: fľaša — contents of such a container
• Slovene: steklenica — contents of such a container
• Sotho: botlolo — contents of such a container
• Spanish: botella — contents of such a container
• Spanish: frasco — contents of such a container
• Swedish: flaska — contents of such a container
• Turkish: şişe — contents of such a container
• Vietnamese: chai — contents of such a container
• Welsh: potelaid — contents of such a container
• Catalan: coratge — nerve, courage
• Catalan: audàcia — nerve, courage
• Esperanto: audaco — nerve, courage
• Finnish: kantti — nerve, courage
• Finnish: rohkeus — nerve, courage
• French: culot — nerve, courage
• French: cran — nerve, courage
• French: courage — nerve, courage
• French: couilles — nerve, courage
• French: audace — nerve, courage
• German: Mumm — nerve, courage
• German: Traute — nerve, courage
• German: Schneid — nerve, courage
• Spanish: arrojo — nerve, courage
• Spanish: osadía — nerve, courage
• Finnish: teko- — with one’s hair dyed
• Spanish: de bote — with one’s hair dyed
• Finnish: lyhde — bundle
• Russian: сноп (snop) — bundle
• Russian: оха́пка — bundle
• Catalan: beure — figuratively: alcohol
• Catalan: ampolla — figuratively: alcohol
• Catalan: botella — figuratively: alcohol
• Finnish: pullo — figuratively: alcohol
• French: bouteille — figuratively: alcohol
• French: boisson — figuratively: alcohol
• German: Buddel — figuratively: alcohol
• Polish: butelka — figuratively: alcohol
• Russian: бутылка (butylka) — figuratively: alcohol
• Russian: рюмка (rjumka) — figuratively: alcohol
• Russian: стакан (stakan) — figuratively: alcohol
• Slovak: fľaša — figuratively: alcohol
• Arabic: عَبَّأَ فِي زُجَاجَة (ʕabbaʔa fī zujāja) — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Asturian: embotellar — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Breton: boutailhañ — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Bulgarian: бутилирам (butiliram) — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Catalan: embotellar — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Catalan: envasar — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Dutch: bottelen — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Esperanto: boteligi — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Finnish: pullottaa — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• French: embouteiller — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• French: mettre en bouteille — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Galician: embotellar — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• German: in Flaschen abfüllen — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Greek: εμφιαλώνω (emfialóno) — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Hebrew: בִּקְבֵּק (bikbék) — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Ido: enboteligar — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Irish: buidéalaigh — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Italian: imbottigliare — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Luxembourgish: afëllen — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Macedonian: флаши́ра (flašíra) — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Manx: cur ayns boteil — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Manx: boteilee — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Māori: pātara — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Norman: emboutilyi — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Norman: embout'ler — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Polish: butelkować — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Portuguese: engarrafar — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Portuguese: embotelhar — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Russian: бутили́ровать (butilírovatʹ) — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Serbo-Croatian: флаширати — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Serbo-Croatian: flaširati — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Spanish: embotellar — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Spanish: envasar — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Swedish: buteljera — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Turkish: şişelemek — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Welsh: potel — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Welsh: botlo — seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
• Arabic: يرضع بواسطَة زجاجَة — feed (an infant) baby formula
• Bulgarian: храня с биберон (hranja s biberon) — feed (an infant) baby formula
• Catalan: donar el biberó — feed (an infant) baby formula
• Dutch: de fles geven — feed (an infant) baby formula
• Finnish: ruokkia pullosta — feed (an infant) baby formula
• French: donner le biberon à — feed (an infant) baby formula
• French: nourrir au biberon — feed (an infant) baby formula
• French: biberonner — feed (an infant) baby formula
• German: die Flasche geben — feed (an infant) baby formula
• Portuguese: dar mamadeira a — feed (an infant) baby formula
• Swedish: ge någon flaskan — feed (an infant) baby formula
• Finnish: jänistää — refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage
• French: se dégonfler — refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage
• French: se débiner — refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage
• Portuguese: entregar — refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage
• Portuguese: amarelar — refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage
• Portuguese: broxar — refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage
• Catalan: donar un cop d'ampolla — strike (someone) with a bottle
• Finnish: heittää pullolla — strike (someone) with a bottle
• Portuguese: dar uma garrafada em (alguém) — strike (someone) with a bottle