kettle

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• kĕt'(ə)l
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• /ˈkɛ.təl/
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• [ˈkhɛtəɫ̩]
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• US: /ˈkɛ.təl/
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• US: [ˈkhɛɾɫ̩]
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• US, dated, regional: /ˈkɪtəl/
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• South-Asia: /ˈkɛʈɪl/
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• South-Asia: /-əl/
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• rhymes with -ɛtəl
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• CMU ARPABET: K EH1 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The Scottish place-name was historically Cattell (1160). Probably from Scottish Gaelic cat (“cat”) or Pictish cat (“cat”) with a locational suffix.

From Middle English ketel, also chetel, from Old English ċietel (“kettle, cauldron”) and in Middle English possibly influenced by Old Norse ketill and both from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (“kettle, bucket, vessel”), of uncertain origin and formation. Usually regarded as a borrowing of Late Latin catīllus (“small bowl”), diminutive of Latin catinus (“deep bowl, vessel for cooking up or serving food”), however, the word may be Germanic confused with the Latin: compare Old English cete (“cooking pot”), Old High German chezzi (“a kettle, dish, bowl”), Icelandic kati, ketla (“a small boat”). Cognate with West Frisian tsjettel (“kettle”), Dutch ketel (“kettle”), German Kessel (“kettle”), Swedish kittel (“cauldron, kettle”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (katils, “kettle”), Finnish kattila, Polish kocioł (“cauldron”), Czech kotel (“boiler”), Russian котёл (kotjól, “boiler, cauldron”). (watch): Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch).

169 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: ketel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Albanian: kazan — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Amharic: ኬት (ket) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Arabic: غَلَّايَة (ḡallāya) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Arabic: غلاية (ḡallāya) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Armenian: կաթսա (katʻsa) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Azerbaijani: qazan — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Azerbaijani: çaydan — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Azerbaijani: çaynik — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Bashkir: сәйнүк (səynük) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Bashkir: кәстрүл (kəstrül) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Belarusian: ча́йнік (čájnik) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Belarusian: кацёл (kacjól) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Bengali: কেটলি (keṭli) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Central Bikol: takuri — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Bulgarian: ча́йник (čájnik) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Burmese: ရေနွေးအိုး (re-nwe:ui:) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Catalan: caldera — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Chinese Cantonese: 水壺 /水壶 — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Chinese Mandarin: 水壺 /水壶 (shuǐhú) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Chinese Mandarin: 壺 /壶 (hú) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Czech: kotel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Danish: kedel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Dutch: ketel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Esperanto: bolkruĉo — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Estonian: katel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Estonian: kann — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Evenki: kalan — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Faroese: ketil — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Finnish: kattila — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• French: bouilloire — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• North Frisian: sedel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• North Frisian: Serel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Old Frisian: sthitil — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• West-Frisian: tsjettel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Georgian: საქვაბე (sakvabe) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Georgian: ქვაბი (kvabi) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Georgian: ქეთლი (ketli) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Georgian: ჩაიდანი (čaidani) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• German: Kessel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• German: Kochtopf — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Greek: χύτρα (chýtra) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Greek: κατσαρόλα (katsaróla) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Gujarati: કીટલી (kīṭlī) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Hausa: būtā̀ — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Hebrew: קוּמְקוּם (qumqúm) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Hindi: केतली (ketlī) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• White Hmong: hwj — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Hungarian: kanna — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Hungarian: vízforraló kanna — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Hungarian: teafőző — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Hungarian: vízforraló — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Hungarian: üst — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Hungarian: bogrács — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Icelandic: ketill — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Indonesian: ketel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Irish: citeal — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Italian: bollitore — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Italian: cucuma — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Italian: pentola — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Japanese: 薬缶 (yakan) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Kannada: ಕೆಟಲ್ (keṭal) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Kashmiri: کِتٕلؠ (kitụl') — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Kazakh: қазан (qazan) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Kazakh: шәйнек (şäinek) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Kazakh: құман (qūman) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Khmer: ឆ្នាំង (chnang) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Kom (Cameroon): ngɨ̀ — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Korean: 주전자 (jujeonja) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Kyrgyz: казан (kazan) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Kyrgyz: чайнек (caynek) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Kyrgyz: чөөгүн (cöögün) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Lao: ນໍ້າມັນ (nam man) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Latgalian: kotlys — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Latin: cortīna — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Latin: cucuma — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Latvian: katls — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Lithuanian: virdulys — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Macedonian: чајник (čajnik) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Macedonian: котле (kotle) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Malay: ketel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Brunei Malay: kitil — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Maltese: kitla — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Māori: tīkera — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Marathi: किटली (kiṭlī) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Middle English: caudroun — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Middle English: ketel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Mongolian: данх (danx) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Nanai: qalä — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Norman: ticl'ye — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjele — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Occitan: pairòl — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Ojibwe: akik — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Old English: ċietel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Old Norse: ketill — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Dari: چایجوش (čây-jôš) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Iranian Persian: کِتْری (ketri) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Plautdietsch: Grope — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Polish: czajnik — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Polish: kocioł — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Portuguese: chaleira — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Portuguese: bule — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Romanian: ceainic — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Russian: котёл (kotjól) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Russian: ча́йник (čájnik) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Scottish Gaelic: coire — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀тао — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̀зан — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Serbo-Croatian: ча̑јнӣк — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Serbo-Croatian: kòtao — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Serbo-Croatian: kàzan — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Serbo-Croatian: čȃjnīk — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Sinhalese: කේතලය (kētalaya) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Slovak: kotol — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Slovene: kotel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Somali: kirliga — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Lower Sorbian: kóśeł — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Sotho: ketlele — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Spanish: caldera — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Spanish: calentador — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Spanish: pava — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Sranan Tongo: ketre — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Swahili: birika — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Swedish: kittel — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Tagalog: takuri — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Tagalog: kawa — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Tajik: чойник (čoynik) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Tajik: чойҷӯш (čoyjüš) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Tamil: கெண்டி (keṇṭi) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Tatar: чәйнек (çäynek) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Tày: ẩm — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Tày: pao — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Telugu: కేటిల్ (kēṭil) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Thai: กา (gaa) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Tibetan: ཁོག་ལྟིར (khog ltir) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Turkish: kazan — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Turkish: kettle — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Turkish: ketıl — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Turkish: su ısıtıcısı — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Ottoman Turkish: قزان (kazan) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Turkmen: çäýnek — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Ukrainian: ча́йник (čájnyk) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Ukrainian: коте́л (kotél) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Unami: wekathus — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Urdu: کیتْلی (ketlī) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Uyghur: چۆگۈن (chögün) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Uyghur: چەينەك (cheynek) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Uzbek: chovgun — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Uzbek: choynak — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Vietnamese: ấm — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Vietnamese: bình đun siêu tốc — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Walloon: cocmwår — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Welsh: tegell — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Yakut: чаанньык (čaanňïk) — vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
• Finnish: kattilallinen — quantity held by a kettle
• Finnish: pannullinen — quantity held by a kettle
• Greek: χύτρα (chýtra) — quantity held by a kettle
• Greek: κατσαρόλα (katsaróla) — quantity held by a kettle
• Hungarian: kanna — quantity held by a kettle
• Hungarian: fazék — quantity held by a kettle
• Hungarian: kannányi — quantity held by a kettle
• Hungarian: fazéknyi — quantity held by a kettle
• Macedonian: чајник (čajnik) — quantity held by a kettle
• Macedonian: котле (kotle) — quantity held by a kettle
• Russian: котёл (kotjól) — quantity held by a kettle
• Scottish Gaelic: coire — quantity held by a kettle
• Vietnamese: ấm — quantity held by a kettle
• Finnish: parvi — group of raptors
• French: nasser — to contain demonstrators