bowl

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊl/ (Southern England) IPA(key): [bɒʊ̯ɫ] (doll–dole merger) IPA(key): /bɒl/ Homophones: boll, (cot–caught merger) ball (General American) IPA(key): /boʊl/ (Canada) IPA(key): /boʊl/, [bo̞ːɫ] (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /bɐʉl/, [bɒʊ̯ɫ] (Singapore, Hong Kong) IPA(key): [b̥ou̯] (North India) IPA(key): /bɑːʋ(ɘ)l/, [bɑˑw(ɘ)l], [bɑː.ʋəl] (South India) IPA(key): /bəʋl/, [bɐwl] Rhymes: -əʊl, (India) -aʊl === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Noun ==== bowl (plural bowls) A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. As much as is held by a bowl. Synonym: bowlful (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape. Synonyms: bowl cut, pudding bowl The round hollow part of anything. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle. Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned. The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o. (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground. Synonyms: crater, hollow (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl) ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll. ==== Noun ==== bowl (plural bowls) (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls. (sports) The action of bowling a ball. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== bowl (third-person singular simple present bowls, present participle bowling, simple past and past participle bowled) (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports. Synonyms: roll, throw; see also Thesaurus:throw (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports). (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels. To pelt or strike with anything rolled. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Danish: bowle → Dutch: bowlen → German: bowlen ===== Translations ===== === Anagrams === Blow, b'low, blow == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English bowl. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbol/ [ˈbol] Rhymes: -ol IPA(key): /ˈbowl/ [ˈbowl] Rhymes: -owl Syllabification: bowl === Noun === bowl m (plural bowls) alternative form of bol ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed. === Further reading === “bowl”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010