# bowl
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bəʊl/, [bɒʊɫ]
** (doll–dole merger) IPA: /bɒl/
* (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA: /bɐʉl/, [bɒʊɫ]
* (US) IPA: /boʊl/, [boɫ]
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: /boʊl/, [bo̞ːɫ]
* (Indic) IPA: /boːl/, (spelling pronunciation) /bawl/
* (Singapore, Hong Kong) IPA: [b̥ou̯]
* Rhymes: -əʊl
* Homophones: bole, boll (one pronunciation)

### 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
    You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
* (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
    This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.
    poke bowl
** 2021 October 23, Jane Black, “The Amazon of Quinoa Bowls”, in The New York Times‎, →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.
* 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.
    Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
** 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.
*** 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.
** 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, 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.
** (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

* begging bowl
* bowl barrow
* bowl chair
* bowl cut
* bowl game
* bowl haircut
* bowl hat
* bowllike
* bowl lute
* bowlmaker
* bowlmaking
* bowl of cherries
* bowl pack
* bowl-shaped
* bowl wax
* brandy bowl
* bread bowl
* Buddha bowl
* burrito bowl
* clean bowl
* coffee bowl
* doggy dinner bowl look
* dustbowl
* embowl
* finger bowl
* fishbowl
* fish bowl
* food bowl
* fruit bowl
* goldfish bowl
* iron rice bowl
* lawn-bowl
* mazer bowl
* mixing bowl
* nutbowlpunchbowl
* poké bowl
* pudding bowl
* pudding-bowl
* punch bowl
* punch bowl waterfall
* quiz bowl
* rice bowl
* rosebowl
* salad bowl
* scorpion bowl
* shampoo bowl
* shit bowl
* shit-bowl
* singing bowl
* slop bowl
* slop-bowl
* sound bowl
* soup bowl
* spaghetti bowl
* spoon-bowl
* spoon bowl
* sugar bowl
* swill-bowl
* take the browns to the super bowl
* teabowl
* tea bowl
* toilet bowl
* track and bowl system
* volcano bowl
* washbowl
* work bowl
* Zuni bowl

##### Descendants

* Bislama: bol
* → Esperanto: bovlo
* → French: bol
** → Catalan: bol
** → Greek: μπολ (bol)
* → German: Bowle, → Bowl
** → Hungarian: bólé
* → Ido: bolo
* → Irish: bolla
* → Japanese: ボール (bōru)
* → Latvian: bole (probably via German)
* → Korean: 볼 (bol)
* → Scottish Gaelic: bòl
* → Swedish: bål

##### Translations

Afrikaans: bak
Ahom: 𑜈𑜃𑜫 (ban)
Albanian: tas (sq) m
Amharic: ኀድጓዳ ሳህን (ḫädgʷada sahn)
Arabic: زِبْدِيَّة f (zibdiyya), سُلْطَانِيَّة f (sulṭāniyya), زُبْدِيَّة f (zubdiyya)
Egyptian Arabic: سلطنية f (sulṭaneya), بولا f (bōlā)
Hijazi Arabic: زُبدية f (zubdiyya)
Moroccan Arabic: زلافة (zlāfa)
Armenian: թաս (hy) (tʻas), աման (hy) (aman), (soup) ճաշաման (hy) (čašaman)
Aromanian: blid n, cãtsãn n
Assamese: বাটি (bati)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܝܼܠܵܣܵܐ m (pīlasa)
Azerbaijani: piyalə (az)
Baluchi: کاسگ (kásag)
Bashkir: табаҡ (tabaq), (large) алдыр (aldır)
Basque: katilu
Belarusian: ча́ша f (čáša), мі́ска f (míska), піа́ла f (piála)
Bikol Central: mangkok (bcl)
Breton: bolenn (br) f
Brunei Malay: mangkuk
Bulgarian: паница (bg) m (panica), купа (bg) m (kupa)
Burmese: ခွက် (my) (hkwak), ဖလား (my) (hpa.la:)
Catalan: bol (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 碗 (wun$^2$)
Mandarin: 碗 (zh) (wǎn)
Coptic: ⲗⲓϫⲓ ? (liči)
Cornish: bolla ?, skudel f
Czech: mísa (cs) f, miska (cs) f
Danish: skål (da) c
Dutch: schaal (nl) f, kom (nl) f
Dzongkha: གཞོངམ། (gzhongm)
Egyptian: (jꜥb m)
Esperanto: bovlo
Estonian: kauss (et)
Faroese: skál f
Finnish: kulho (fi), malja (fi), vati (fi)
French: bol (fr) m
Friulian: scudiele f, supiere f
Galician: cunca (gl) f, cuncón m, tixela (gl) f, escá f
Georgian: თასი (ka) (tasi)
German: Schale (de) f, Schüssel (de) f
Greek: μπολ (el) n (bol), γαβάθα (el) f (gavátha), κυπελλάκι (kypelláki), τσανάκα (el) f (tsanáka)
Ancient: τρύβλιον n (trúblion), σκάφη f (skáphē), φιάλη f (phiálē)
Hawaiian: ʻumeke
Hebrew: קְעָרָה (he) f (keara)
Hindi: कटोरा (hi) m (kaṭorā), कटोरी (hi) f (kaṭorī)
Hungarian: tál (hu), tálka (hu)
Icelandic: skál (is) f
Ido: bolo (io)
Indonesian: mangkok (id), mangkuk (id)
Irish: babhla m, cuach m
Italian: scodella (it) f, ciotola (it) f, terrina (it) f, tazza (it) f
Japanese: 碗 (ja) (わん, wan), 茶碗 (ja) (ちゃわん, chawan) (rice bowl), ボウル (ja) (bōru), 丼 (ja) (どんぶり, donburi)
Jingpho: jarung
Karelian: staučča
Kazakh: табақ (kk) (tabaq), тегене (tegene), тегеш (tegeş), тостаған (tostağan), кесе (kk) (kese)
Korean: 사발(沙鉢) (ko) (sabal), 그릇 (ko) (geureut), 볼 (ko) (bol)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کاسە (kase)
Kyrgyz: табак (ky) (tabak), чөйчөк (ky) (cöycök), чыны (ky) (cını)
Ladino: chanaka, bol, kyase
Lao: ໂອ (ʼō)
Latgalian: bļūda ?
Latin: catinus m
Latvian: bļoda (lv) f
Limburgish: kómp (li) m, sjaol (li) f
Lithuanian: dubuo m
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Luhya: epwakuli
Macedonian: чинија f (činija), здела f (zdela), сад m (sad)
Malay: mangkuk (ms)
Manchu: ᠮᠣᡵᠣ (moro)
Maori: kumete, oko (mi), kāraha
Middle Korean: 그릇〮 (kùlús)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: аяга (mn) (ajaga)
Mongolian: ᠠᠶᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (ayag-a)
Nahuatl: caxitl (nah)
Navajo: łeetsʼaaʼ nímazí
Ngazidja Comorian: ɓakuli class 5/6
Nias: mako (nia)
Norman: bolle f, dgichon m
Northern Altai: айак (ayak)
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: skål (no) m or f
Bokmål: bolle (no) m
Nynorsk: bolle m
Ojibwe: boozikinaagan
Ottoman Turkish: طاس (tas)
Paiwan: sangpuru
Pashto: پياله (ps) f (pyālá)
Persian: کاسه (fa) (kâse), پیاله (fa) (piyâle), اسکره (fa) (oskore) (earthen)
Pipil: kashit, shīkal
Polish: misa (pl) f
Portuguese: tigela (pt) f
Punjabi: ਪਿਆਲਾ m (piālā)
Quechua: anqara
Romanian: castron (ro) n, blid (ro) n, bol (ro) n
Russian: ча́ша (ru) f (čáša), ми́ска (ru) f (míska), пиа́ла (ru) f (piála), пло́шка (ru) f (plóška)
Scottish Gaelic: bobhla m, cuach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: чѝнија f, зде̏ла f, здје̏ла f
Roman: čìnija (sh) f, zdȅla (sh) f, zdjȅla (sh) f
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sicilian: scudedda (scn) f
Slovak: misa f, miska f
Slovene: skleda (sl) f
Sotho: sejana (st) class 7
Southern Altai: чана (čana)
Spanish: tazón m, cuenco (es) m, bol (es) m, boul m, bowl m
Sundanese: ringkok
Swahili: bakuli (sw) class 5/6
Swedish: skål (sv) c
Tagalog: mangkok, huwataw
Tahitian: ʻumete
Tajik: ҷом (jom), паймона (paymona), коса (tg) (kosa), пиёла (piyola)
Tamil: கிண்ணம் (ta) (kiṇṇam)
Tarifit: aqbuš m
Tausug: pinggan
Thai: ชาม (th) (chaam), ถ้วย (th) (tûai)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tlingit: xh'ayeit
Turkish: çanak (tr), piyale (tr)
Turkmen: şakäse
Tày: áng, ủn, pát, bác, pát ủn
Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎗𐎃 (trḫ)
Ukrainian: ча́ша f (čáša), ми́ска f (mýska), піа́ла f (piála)
Urdu: پیالا m (pyālā)
Uyghur: پىيالە (piyale), قاچا (qacha)
Uzbek: qadah (uz), piyola (uz)
Venetan: scuèƚa f, scudèla f
Vietnamese: chén (vi), tô (vi)
Welsh: dysgl f, powlen (cy) f, padell (cy) f
White Hmong: tais
Wutunhua: wan
Yámana: ayšu-tuku
Yiddish: שיסל (shisl)
Yup'ik: qantaq
Zhuang: duix, vanj :

### 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

* bowl-off
* bowl-out

##### 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
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.
* (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.
    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, […] .
* To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, / And bowled to death with turnips.

##### Derived terms

* bowl a googly
* bowl along
* bowl down
* bowler
* bowling
* bowling alley
* bowling ball
* bowl out
* bowl over
* bowl up
* outbowl
* overbowl

##### Descendants

* → Danish: bowle
* → Dutch: bowlen
* → German: bowlen

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Blow, b'low, blow