bowl

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bəʊl/
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• Southern-England: [bɒʊ̯ɫ]
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• /bɒl/ doll–dole merger
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• homophone: boll
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• homophone: (cot–caught merger) ball
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• General-American: /boʊl/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Canada: /boʊl/
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• Canada: [bo̞ːɫ]
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /bɐʉl/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: [bɒʊ̯ɫ]
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• Hong-Kong, Singapore: [b̥ou̯]
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• India, North: /bɑːʋ(ɘ)l/
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• India, North: [bɑˑw(ɘ)l]
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• India, North: [bɑː.ʋəl]
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• India, South: /bəʋl/
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• India, South: [bɐwl]
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• rhymes with -əʊl
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• rhymes with (India) -aʊl
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• CMU ARPABET: B OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”). Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.

From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.

284 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bak — container for food
• Ahom: 𑜈𑜃𑜫 (ban) — container for food
• Akkadian: kāsum — container for food
• Albanian: tas — container for food
• Northern Altai: айак (ayak) — container for food
• Southern Altai: чана (čana) — container for food
• Southern Altai: табак (tabak) — container for food
• Amharic: ኀድጓዳ ሳህን (ḫädgwada sahn) — container for food
• Arabic: زِبْدِيَّة (zibdiyya) — container for food
• Arabic: سُلْطَانِيَّة (sulṭāniyya) — container for food
• Arabic: زُبْدِيَّة (zubdiyya) — container for food
• Arabic: سلطنية (sulṭaneya) — container for food
• Arabic: بولا (bōlā) — container for food
• Arabic: زُبدية (zubdiyya) — container for food
• Arabic: زلافة (zlāfa) — container for food
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܝܼܠܵܣܵܐ (pīlasa) — container for food
• Armenian: թաս (tʻas) — container for food
• Armenian: աման (aman) — container for food
• Armenian: ճաշաման (čašaman) — container for food
• Aromanian: blid — container for food
• Aromanian: cãtsãn — container for food
• Assamese: বাটি (bati) — container for food
• Azerbaijani: piyalə — container for food
• Baluchi: کاسگ (kásag) — container for food
• Bashkir: табаҡ (tabaq) — container for food
• Bashkir: алдыр (aldır) — container for food
• Basque: katilu — container for food
• Belarusian: ча́ша (čáša) — container for food
• Belarusian: мі́ска (míska) — container for food
• Belarusian: піа́ла (piála) — container for food
• Central Bikol: mangkok — container for food
• Breton: bolenn — container for food
• Bulgarian: паница (panica) — container for food
• Bulgarian: купа (kupa) — container for food
• Burmese: ခွက် (hkwak) — container for food
• Burmese: ဖလား (hpa.la:) — container for food
• Catalan: bol — container for food
• Chinese Cantonese: 碗 (wun2) — container for food
• Chinese Mandarin: 碗 (wǎn) — container for food
• Ngazidja Comorian: ɓakuli — container for food
• Coptic: ⲗⲓϫⲓ (liji) — container for food
• Cornish: bolla — container for food
• Cornish: skudel — container for food
• Czech: mísa — container for food
• Czech: miska — container for food
• Danish: skål — container for food
• Dutch: schaal — container for food
• Dutch: kom — container for food
• Dzongkha: གཞོངམ (gzhongm) — container for food
• Egyptian: i-a-b-W10 (jꜥb) — container for food
• Esperanto: bovlo — container for food
• Estonian: kauss — container for food
• Faroese: skál — container for food
• Finnish: kulho — container for food
• Finnish: malja — container for food
• Finnish: vati — container for food
• French: bol — container for food
• Friulian: scudiele — container for food
• Friulian: supiere — container for food
• Galician: cunca — container for food
• Galician: cuncón — container for food
• Galician: tixela — container for food
• Galician: escá — container for food
• Georgian: თასი (tasi) — container for food
• German: Schale — container for food
• German: Schüssel — container for food
• Greek: μπολ (bol) — container for food
• Greek: γαβάθα (gavátha) — container for food
• Greek: κυπελλάκι (kypelláki) — container for food
• Greek: τσανάκα (tsanáka) — container for food
• Ancient Greek: τρύβλιον (trúblion) — container for food
• Ancient Greek: σκάφη (skáphē) — container for food
• Ancient Greek: φιάλη (phiálē) — container for food
• Hawaiian: ʻumeke — container for food
• Hebrew: קְעָרָה (keara) — container for food
• Hindi: कटोरा (kaṭorā) — container for food
• Hindi: कटोरी (kaṭorī) — container for food
• White Hmong: tais — container for food
• Hungarian: tál — container for food
• Hungarian: tálka — container for food
• Icelandic: skál — container for food
• Ido: bolo — container for food
• Indonesian: mangkok — container for food
• Indonesian: mangkuk — container for food
• Irish: babhla — container for food
• Irish: cuach — container for food
• Italian: scodella — container for food
• Italian: ciotola — container for food
• Italian: terrina — container for food
• Italian: tazza — container for food
• Japanese: 碗 (wan) — container for food
• Japanese: 茶碗 (chawan) — container for food
• Japanese: ボウル (bōru) — container for food
• Japanese: 丼 (donburi) — container for food
• Jingpho: jarung — container for food
• Karelian: staučča — container for food
• Kazakh: табақ (tabaq) — container for food
• Kazakh: тегене (tegene) — container for food
• Kazakh: тегеш (tegeş) — container for food
• Kazakh: тостаған (tostağan) — container for food
• Kazakh: кесе (kese) — container for food
• Korean: 사발 (sabal) — container for food
• Korean: 그릇 (geureut) — container for food
• Korean: 볼 (bol) — container for food
• Middle Korean: 그릇〮 (kùlús) — container for food
• Central Kurdish: کاسە (kase) — container for food
• Northern Kurdish: kase — container for food
• Northern Kurdish: kas — container for food
• Northern Kurdish: pinc — container for food
• Kyrgyz: табак (tabak) — container for food
• Kyrgyz: чөйчөк (cöycök) — container for food
• Kyrgyz: чыны (cını) — container for food
• Ladino: chanaka — container for food
• Ladino: bol — container for food
• Ladino: kyase — container for food
• Lao: ໂອ (ʼō) — container for food
• Latgalian: bļūda — container for food
• Latin: catinus — container for food
• Latvian: bļoda — container for food
• Limburgish: kómp — container for food
• Limburgish: sjaol — container for food
• Lithuanian: dubuo — container for food
• Luhya: epwakuli — container for food
• Macedonian: чинија (činija) — container for food
• Macedonian: здела (zdela) — container for food
• Macedonian: сад (sad) — container for food
• Malay: mangkuk — container for food
• Brunei Malay: mangkuk — container for food
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᡵᠣ (moro) — container for food
• Māori: kumete — container for food
• Māori: oko — container for food
• Māori: kāraha — container for food
• Mongolian: аяга (ajaga) — container for food
• Mongolian: ᠠᠶᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (ayaɣ-a) — container for food
• Nahuatl: caxitl — container for food
• Navajo: łeetsʼaaʼ nímazí — container for food
• Nias: mako — container for food
• Norman: bolle — container for food
• Norman: dgichon — container for food
• Norwegian: skål — container for food
• Norwegian Bokmål: bolle — container for food
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bolle — container for food
• Ojibwe: boozikinaagan — container for food
• Paiwan: sangpuru — container for food
• Pashto: پياله (pyālá) — container for food
• Dari: کَاسَه (kāsa) — container for food
• Dari: پِیَالَه (piyāla) — container for food
• Iranian Persian: کاسِه (kâse) — container for food
• Iranian Persian: پِیالِه (piyâle) — container for food
• Iranian Persian: اُسْکُرِه (oskore) — container for food
• Pipil: kashit — container for food
• Pipil: shīkal — container for food
• Polish: misa — container for food
• Portuguese: tigela — container for food
• Portuguese: malga — container for food
• Punjabi: ਪਿਆਲਾ (piālā) — container for food
• Quechua: anqara — container for food
• Romanian: castron — container for food
• Romanian: blid — container for food
• Romanian: bol — container for food
• Russian: ча́ша (čáša) — container for food
• Russian: ми́ска (míska) — container for food
• Russian: пиа́ла (piála) — container for food
• Russian: пло́шка (plóška) — container for food
• Scottish Gaelic: bobhla — container for food
• Scottish Gaelic: cuach — container for food
• Serbo-Croatian: чѝнија — container for food
• Serbo-Croatian: зде̏ла — container for food
• Serbo-Croatian: здје̏ла — container for food
• Serbo-Croatian: čìnija — container for food
• Serbo-Croatian: zdȅla — container for food
• Serbo-Croatian: zdjȅla — container for food
• Sicilian: scudedda — container for food
• Slovak: misa — container for food
• Slovak: miska — container for food
• Slovene: skleda — container for food
• Sotho: sejana — container for food
• Spanish: tazón — container for food
• Spanish: cuenco — container for food
• Spanish: bol — container for food
• Spanish: boul — container for food
• Spanish: bowl — container for food
• Spanish: bols — container for food
• Spanish: escudilla — container for food
• Sundanese: ringkok — container for food
• Swahili: bakuli — container for food
• Swedish: skål — container for food
• Tagalog: mangkok — container for food
• Tagalog: huwataw — container for food
• Tahitian: ʻumete — container for food
• Tajik: ҷом (jom) — container for food
• Tajik: паймона (paymona) — container for food
• Tajik: коса (kosa) — container for food
• Tajik: пиёла (piyola) — container for food
• Tamil: கிண்ணம் (kiṇṇam) — container for food
• Tarifit: aqbuš — container for food
• Tausug: pinggan — container for food
• Tày: áng — container for food
• Tày: ủn — container for food
• Tày: pát — container for food
• Tày: bác — container for food
• Tày: pát ủn — container for food
• Thai: ชาม (chaam) — container for food
• Thai: ถ้วย (tûai) — container for food
• Tlingit: xh'ayeit — container for food
• Turkish: çanak — container for food
• Turkish: piyale — container for food
• Ottoman Turkish: طاس (tas) — container for food
• Ottoman Turkish: كاسه (kâse) — container for food
• Turkmen: şakäse — container for food
• Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎗𐎃 (trḫ) — container for food
• Ukrainian: ча́ша (čáša) — container for food
• Ukrainian: ми́ска (mýska) — container for food
• Ukrainian: піа́ла (piála) — container for food
• Urdu: پْیالَہ (pyāla) — container for food
• Urdu: پْیالا (pyālā) — container for food
• Uyghur: پىيالە (piyale) — container for food
• Uyghur: قاچا (qacha) — container for food
• Uzbek: qadah — container for food
• Uzbek: piyola — container for food
• Venetan: scuèƚa — container for food
• Venetan: scudèla — container for food
• Vietnamese: bát — container for food
• Vietnamese: chén — container for food
• Vietnamese: tô — container for food
• Vietnamese: đọi — container for food
• Volapük: bov — container for food
• Welsh: dysgl — container for food
• Welsh: powlen — container for food
• Welsh: padell — container for food
• Wutunhua: wan — container for food
• Yámana: ayšu-tuku — container for food
• Yiddish: שיסל (shisl) — container for food
• Yup'ik: qantaq — container for food
• Zhuang: duix — container for food
• Zhuang: vanj — container for food
• German: Bowl — dish comprising a mix of different foods
• Greek: γαβάθα (gavátha) — dish comprising a mix of different foods
• Greek: τσανάκα (tsanáka) — dish comprising a mix of different foods
• Hindi: थाली (thālī) — dish comprising a mix of different foods
• Ottoman Turkish: طاس (tas) — dish comprising a mix of different foods
• Finnish: allas — round hollow part of anything
• Finnish: malja — round hollow part of anything
• Slovak: misa — round hollow part of anything
• Slovak: jamka — round hollow part of anything
• Slovak: priehlbina — round hollow part of anything
• Esperanto: ĉerpilo — part of a spoon
• Finnish: pesä — part of a spoon
• Norwegian: skjeblad — part of a spoon
• Polish: czerpak — part of a spoon
• Bulgarian: огнище (ognište) — part of a pipe
• Esperanto: bovlo — part of a pipe
• Finnish: pesä — part of a pipe
• Italian: fornello — part of a pipe
• Japanese: 雁首 (gankubi) — part of a pipe
• Portuguese: fornilho — part of a pipe
• Finnish: kraateri — crater
• Finnish: kuoppa — crater
• Slovak: jama — crater
• Slovak: priehlbina — crater
• Slovak: výmoľ — crater
• Slovak: výtlk — crater
• Finnish: areena — elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater
• Portuguese: estádio — elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater
• Finnish: kuula — ball used in lawn bowls
• Irish: bolla — ball used in lawn bowls
• Italian: boccia — ball used in lawn bowls
• Lithuanian: dubenėlis — ball used in lawn bowls
• Māori: mānukaroa — ball used in lawn bowls
• Portuguese: bocha — ball used in lawn bowls
• Ukrainian: ку́ля (kúlja) — ball used in lawn bowls
• Ukrainian: ку́лька (kúlʹka) — ball used in lawn bowls
• Finnish: keilaus — action of bowling a ball
• Afrikaans: boul — roll or throw (a ball)
• Basque: birlatu — roll or throw (a ball)
• Dutch: bowlen — roll or throw (a ball)
• Finnish: keilata — roll or throw (a ball)
• Finnish: heittää — roll or throw (a ball)
• Finnish: vierittää — roll or throw (a ball)
• German: bowlen — roll or throw (a ball)
• Lithuanian: ridenti — roll or throw (a ball)
• Māori: epa — roll or throw (a ball)
• Māori: pīrori — roll or throw (a ball)
• Sotho: boula — roll or throw (a ball)