# bombe
## English
### Etymology

From French bombe. Doublet of bomb.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
* IPA: /bɒm(b)/
* Rhymes: -ɒm, -ɒmb

### Noun

bombe (plural bombes)
* A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.
* (chiefly in German cooking, otherwise rare) A small, roughly hemispherical, chocolate-covered confection.
    Coordinate term: truffle
** 1983, Bon Appétit, volume 28, page 17:
    Sous-chef Daniel O'Reagan prepares an array of tempting desserts, including a zabaglione and marzipan bombe, chocolate mousse torte and an amaretto-flavored cheesecake.
** 2000, New York Times, The New York Times Guide to New York City 2001, page 454:
    The best dessert by far is the chocolate-caramel bombe, a gorgeous chocolate-dusted dome with a heart of passion fruit crème brûlée.
** 2009, Tim Richardson, Sweets: A History of Candy (→ISBN), page 374:
    Austria boasts the Mozart ball, a marzipan-filled chocolate ball wrapped in a portrait of the composer. Niemetz of Vienna also manufactures a famous marshmallow bombe called the Schwedenbombe.
* (computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.

#### Translations
## Danish
### Etymology

From French bombe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bombə/, [ˈb̥ɔmb̥ə]
* Homophone: bumpe

### Noun

bombe c (singular definite bomben, plural indefinite bomber)
* (military, weaponry) bomb

#### Derived terms

* a-bombe
* atombombe
* b-bombe
* benzinbombe
* bombealarm
* bombeangreb
* bombeanslag
* bombeattentat
* bombefly
* bombekrater
* bombemand
* bombenedslag
* bomberegn
* bombesikker
* bombeskjold
* bombetogt
* bombetrussel
* brandbombe
* brintbombe

### Verb

bombe (past tense bombede, past participle bombet)
* to bomb

#### Derived terms

* bomber
* bombning
* tæppebombe

#### Further reading

* “bombe” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a boom”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔ̃b/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bombe f (plural bombes)
* bomb (a device filled with explosives)
* aerosol (either the substance or the container)
* (colloquial) a hottie, a bombshell
    Synonyms: avion de chasse, bonnasse, canon
* globular glass vessel; demijohn, carboy
    Synonym: bonbonne
* bombe glacée, a frozen dessert consisting of two or more kinds of ice cream, often with a light, frothy center made of eggs and sugar, frozen in a melon-shaped mold
* Ellipsis of bombe météorologique or bombe météo or bombe cyclonique.

#### Derived terms

* bombe à retardement
* bombe atomique
* bombe cyclonique
* bombe météo
* bombe météorologique
* bombe sexuelle

#### Descendants

* → Danish: bombe
* → English: bombe
* → German: Bombe
* → Lao: ບົມ (bom)
* → Persian: بمب (bomb)
* → Norwegian Bokmål: bombe
* → Vietnamese: bom

### Further reading

* “bombe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbom.be/
* Rhymes: -ombe
* Hyphenation: bóm‧be

### Noun

bombe f
* plural of bomba

### Anagrams

* Bembo

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbom.be/, [ˈbɔmbɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbom.be/, [ˈbɔmbe]

### Noun

bombe
* vocative singular of bombus

## Norman
### Etymology

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### Noun

bombe f (plural bombes)
* (Jersey) bomb

## Northern Kurdish
### Noun

bombe f
* bomb

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From French bombe (“bomb, aerosol”), from Italian bomba (“bomb”), from Latin bombus (“a buzz or humming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “any deep, hollow sound, humming, buzzing, booming, rumbling”), imitative of the sound itself.

### Noun

bombe f or m (definite singular bomba or bomben, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)
* a bomb
* a round spot in patterns
    et blått slips med røde bombera blue tie with red spots
* bombe

#### Derived terms

* atombombe
* bilbombe
* bombeangrep
* bombefly
* bombekrater
* bombesikker
* bombing
* isbombe (sense 3)
* klasebombe

### Verb

bombe (imperative bomb, present tense bomber, simple past and past participle bomba or bombet, present participle bombende)
* to bomb

### References

* “bombe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

bombe f (definite singular bomba, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)
* a bomb
* a round spot in patterns
    eit blått slips med raude bombera blue tie with red spots
* bombe

#### Derived terms

* atombombe
* bilbombe
* bombeangrep
* bombefly
* bombekrater
* bombesikker
* bombing
* isbombe
* klasebombe

### Verb

bombe (present tense bombar, past tense bomba, past participle bomba, passive infinitive bombast, present participle bombande, imperative bombe/bomb)
* to bomb

### References

* “bombe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Verb

bombe
* inflection of bombar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbombe]

### Noun

bombe f
* inflection of bombă:
** indefinite plural
** indefinite genitive/dative singular