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bowl

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English

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Ancient Egyptian faience bowl, from circa 200–150 BC
French Neoclassical bowl (jatte à anses relevées or jatte écuelle), from circa 1787-1788

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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.

Noun

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bowl (plural bowls)

  2. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
    Hyponyms: begging bowl, coffee bowl, mixing bowl, punchbowl, soup bowl, sugar bowl
    1. As much as is held by a bowl.
      Synonym: bowlful
      You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
    3. (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods served in a bowl, usually named after the base ingredient at the bottom or after a different dish that it simulates.
      This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.
      Hyponym: burrito bowl, poke bowl
      açai bowl, rice bowl, sushi bowl
      • 2021 October 23, Jane Black, “The Amazon of Quinoa Bowls”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
        Fresh ingredients are more expensive than highly processed ones and the result is grain bowls galore for those who can spend $10 or more per meal, and fast food full of salt, fat and sugar for everyone else.
    4. The non-mesh outer-container part of a salad spinner.
    5. The round container surface of a mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle).
    6. A water bowl, such as for a pet.
    7. (Buddhism) One of the seven bowls of water used as ceremonial offerings in Buddhist practice.
    8. (Christianity) One of the seven bowls representing plagues described in Revelations in Christian theology.
  3. The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl.
    Dig out a bowl in the ground.
    Hyponym: toilet bowl, fish bowl
    1. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
    2. The part of a cup that holds a liquid, as opposed to the handle.
    3. The surface of a sink that receives liquid and has a drain.
    4. The spinning core of a centrifugal separator.
    6. Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
      • 1882, Edwin Atlee Barber, Catalogue of the Collection of Tobacco Pipes Deposited by Edwin A. Barber, page 11:
        195. Old German Pipe-Bowl ; carved wood ; design in front of bowl – the letters P K K surrounded by a wreath ; lid wanting. Switzerland.
      1. The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
        Let's smoke a bowl!
        • 2010, Mark Arax, West of the West‎[2], page 221:
          Purple smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real purple. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
    7. A round vessel used in various occult, spiritual or divinatory practices.
      Hyponyms: scrying bowl, smudge bowl
    8. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
    9. (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground; a region shaped like a bowl.
      Synonyms: crater, hollow
    10. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
      1. (by extension, American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl).
    11. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming an overturned-bowl shape.
      Synonyms: bowl cut, pudding bowl
    12. (music) A singing bowl.
    13. A begging bowl
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Descendants
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  • Bislama: bol
  • Pijin: baol
  • → Esperanto: bovlo
  • → French: bol
  • → German: Bowle, Bowl
  • → Ido: bolo
  • → Irish: bolla
  • → Japanese: ボール (bōru)
  • → Latvian: bole (probably via German)
  • → Korean: 볼 (bol)
  • → Mokilese: pwohl
  • → Scottish Gaelic: bòl
  • → Swedish: bål
  • → Spanish: bol
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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bowl (plural bowls)

  1. (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
  2. (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
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Verb

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bowl (third-person singular simple present bowls, present participle bowling, simple past and past participle bowled)

  1. (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
  2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
  3. (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
  4. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
    We were bowled rapidly along the road.
    • 1950 November, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Southern England”, in Railway Magazine, page 772:
      On busy days, they also may be seen bowling along the Brighton main line, north of Keymer Junction, with a relief Newhaven boat express, […] .
  5. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
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Spanish

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Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from English bowl.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈbol/ [ˈbol]
    • IPA(key): /ˈbowl/ [ˈbowl]
    • Syllabification: bowl

    Noun

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    bowl m (plural bowls)

    1. alternative form of bol

    Usage notes

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    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.

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