Bowl in Different Languages
Discover 'Bowl' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Bowl
Afrikaans bakkie | ||
Albanian tas | ||
Amharic ጎድጓዳ ሳህን | ||
Arabic عاء | ||
Armenian գունդ | ||
Assamese বাতি | ||
Aymara lamana | ||
Azerbaijani qab | ||
Bambara tasa | ||
Basque katilu | ||
Belarusian міска | ||
Bengali বাটি | ||
Bhojpuri कचोरी | ||
Bosnian zdjelu | ||
Bulgarian купа | ||
Catalan bol | ||
Cebuano panaksan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 碗 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 碗 | ||
Corsican ciotola | ||
Croatian zdjela | ||
Czech miska | ||
Danish skål | ||
Dhivehi ބޯތަށި | ||
Dogri कौली | ||
Dutch kom | ||
English bowl | ||
Esperanto bovlo | ||
Estonian kauss | ||
Ewe agba | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mangkok | ||
Finnish kulho | ||
French bol | ||
Frisian kom | ||
Galician cunca | ||
Georgian თასი | ||
German schüssel | ||
Greek γαβάθα | ||
Guarani harroguasu | ||
Gujarati બાઉલ | ||
Haitian Creole bòl | ||
Hausa kwano | ||
Hawaiian pola | ||
Hebrew קְעָרָה | ||
Hindi कटोरा | ||
Hmong lub tais | ||
Hungarian tál | ||
Icelandic skál | ||
Igbo nnukwu efere | ||
Ilocano malukong | ||
Indonesian mangkuk | ||
Irish babhla | ||
Italian ciotola | ||
Japanese 丼鉢 | ||
Javanese bokor | ||
Kannada ಬೌಲ್ | ||
Kazakh тостаған | ||
Khmer ចាន | ||
Kinyarwanda igikombe | ||
Konkani वाटी | ||
Korean 사발 | ||
Krio bol | ||
Kurdish tas | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) مەنجەڵ | ||
Kyrgyz табак | ||
Lao ຊາມ | ||
Latin patera | ||
Latvian bļoda | ||
Lingala sani | ||
Lithuanian dubuo | ||
Luganda bakuli | ||
Luxembourgish schossel | ||
Macedonian чинија | ||
Maithili कटोरी | ||
Malagasy vilia baolina | ||
Malay mangkuk | ||
Malayalam പാത്രം | ||
Maltese skutella | ||
Maori peihana | ||
Marathi वाडगा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯦꯡꯀꯣꯠ | ||
Mizo thleng | ||
Mongolian аяга | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပန်းကန်လုံး | ||
Nepali कचौरा | ||
Norwegian bolle | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mbale | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପାତ୍ର | ||
Oromo mar'ummaan | ||
Pashto کاسه | ||
Persian کاسه | ||
Polish miska | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) tigela | ||
Punjabi ਕਟੋਰਾ | ||
Quechua pukullu | ||
Romanian castron | ||
Russian миска | ||
Samoan pesini | ||
Sanskrit पाल | ||
Scots Gaelic bobhla | ||
Sepedi sekotlelo | ||
Serbian здела | ||
Sesotho sekotlolo | ||
Shona mbiya | ||
Sindhi پيالو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පාත්රය | ||
Slovak misa | ||
Slovenian skledo | ||
Somali baaquli | ||
Spanish cuenco | ||
Sundanese mangkok | ||
Swahili bakuli | ||
Swedish skål | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mangkok | ||
Tajik коса | ||
Tamil கிண்ணம் | ||
Tatar касә | ||
Telugu గిన్నె | ||
Thai ชาม | ||
Tigrinya ኣጋር | ||
Tsonga xibye | ||
Turkish çanak | ||
Turkmen jam | ||
Twi (Akan) kyɛnsee | ||
Ukrainian чаша | ||
Urdu پیالہ | ||
Uyghur قاچا | ||
Uzbek kosa | ||
Vietnamese bát | ||
Welsh bowlen | ||
Xhosa isitya | ||
Yiddish שיסל | ||
Yoruba abọ | ||
Zulu isitsha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In its original Khoisan form, bakkie would have referred to "a small, round place". |
| Albanian | "Tas" means "stone" in Proto-Albanian and might be cognate to "tasse" (cup) in many Romance languages. |
| Amharic | The word "ጎድጓዳ ሳህን" (bowl) can also refer to a hole in the ground.} |
| Arabic | The word "عاء" can also refer to a container, a vessel, or a place where something is kept. |
| Armenian | The word 'գունդ' (bowl) also means 'ball' and is derived from the Persian word for 'ball', which is 'gund'. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "qab" can also mean "a small, flat, round piece of bread" or "a kind of earthenware pot" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | "Katilu" is also the traditional Basque name for a type of dish or stew, usually made with beans or potatoes. |
| Belarusian | "Міска" is a type of Ukrainian pottery, and might have originated from the Turkic word "miska", meaning "cup" or "bowl". |
| Bengali | The word "বাটি" also means "a small earthenware or metal vessel used for cooking or serving food" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | "Zdjelu" comes from Old Slavic word "*žьdola" which also meant "pit". |
| Bulgarian | The word "купа" also means "a heap" or "a pile" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | Catalan "bol" is derived from Latin "ballus" or "bulla" and can also refer to a potbellied person or a bubble. |
| Cebuano | Panaksan derives from the Austronesian word "pakasan", a common term for "bowl", but in some contexts it can mean "tray" or "plate". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Bowl can also be used in Chinese slang as a measure word for a portion of a dish, or to describe something as round. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 碗, originally meant a round container for drinking, later it specifically refers to a container for holding food |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "ciotola" is derived from the Italian word "ciotola", which in turn comes from the Latin word "scutella", meaning "small dish". |
| Croatian | The word "zdjela" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *židlьa, meaning "hollow vessel". |
| Czech | "Miska" also means "bear" in archaic Czech. |
| Danish | The Danish word "skål" comes from the Proto-Norse word "skāl" which meant "cup" and also "skull". |
| Dutch | The word "kom" can also refer to "the round part of the cheek" (from Latin "coma" (hair)) and "the part of the foot between the heel and toes" (from Latin "coma" (hair, mane)) in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "bovlo" also means "ball" or "sphere" in some contexts. |
| Estonian | The word "kauss" may also refer to a type of vessel used for drinking or a round depression in the ground. |
| Finnish | The word 'kulho' may also refer to a cup, a chalice, or a goblet |
| French | The French word "bol" can also mean "pill" or "small ball". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "kom" is related to the Old English "cume" (bowl) and the German "Kumme" (basin). |
| Galician | The Galician word "cunca" derives from the Latin word "concha", which means "shell" or "vessel". |
| Georgian | The word "თასი" can also refer to a cup, goblet, or glass. |
| German | The word 'Schüssel' also means 'key' or 'lock' in German, derived from the Old High German word 'sluz' meaning 'keyhole'. |
| Greek | In ancient Greek, "γαβάθα" could also refer to a type of shoe or sandal with a hollowed-out sole. |
| Gujarati | In Bengali, the word "বাউল" also refers to a class of mystic minstrels. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "bòl" can also mean "ball" or "globe". |
| Hausa | The word 'kwano' can also mean 'calabash' or 'gourd' in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | 'Pola' in Hawaiian can also refer to a type of volcanic rock. |
| Hebrew | קְעָרָה can also refer to the area in a body of water where it curves inward toward land or where two opposing shorelines meet |
| Hindi | The word 'कटोरा' derives from the Sanskrit word 'कटु' meaning 'sharp' or 'pointed', referring to the sharp edges of traditional bowls made from wood or clay. |
| Hmong | In some dialects of Hmong, "lub tais" can also refer to a "plate" or "tray". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "tál" originally referred to a flat dish, but over time its meaning shifted to include deeper bowls and other similar containers. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word 'skál' also means 'a cheer' or 'a toast'. |
| Igbo | The term "nnukwu efere" literally means "big calabash" in Igbo, reflecting the traditional use of dried calabashes as bowls. |
| Indonesian | "Mangkuk" can also refer to a concave area for holding liquids, such as a pond or a valley. |
| Irish | babhla likely derives from the word bab, meaning "to scoop out". |
| Italian | The word "ciotola" originally referred to a small drinking vessel, akin to a cup, only later extending to any bowl-shaped container. |
| Japanese | "丼鉢" (bowl) originally referred to a round earthenware pot used for serving rice. |
| Javanese | Bokor is derived from the Sanskrit word |
| Kannada | The word "ಬೌಲ್" ("bowl") in Kannada can also mean a "cup" or a "vessel" used for drinking or serving liquids. |
| Kazakh | "Тостаған" means "a drinking vessel" and in ancient times it was made of wood or horn. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ចាន" not only denotes a physical bowl used for serving or eating food, but it also refers to a specific portion or serving of various dishes in traditional Khmer cuisine, particularly soups or rice-based meals. |
| Korean | 사발 (sabal): also refers to a wooden bowl or dish used by Buddhist monks for alms in Korean. |
| Kurdish | While "tas" primarily means "bowl" in Kurdish, it can also refer to a flat woven circular cloth or a flat wooden tray used for serving food. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "табак" can also refer to a flat wooden tray used for serving food in Kyrgyzstan. |
| Lao | The word ຊາມ (sām) for "bowl" comes from the Pali word "samaya" which means "time" or "season". |
| Latin | The word "patera" derives from the Greek "πατήρ" (father), as libations were offered to the gods using such dishes. |
| Latvian | In Latvian, "bļoda" can also refer to a type of soup or stew served in a bowl. |
| Lithuanian | In Latvian, "dubb" means "swamp". |
| Macedonian | The word "чинија" can also refer to a type of decorative plate or dish. |
| Malagasy | In Madagascar, 'vilia baolina' also refers to a traditional Malagasy dish of rice and vegetables. |
| Malay | In Javanese, “mangkuk” means a small bowl, and in Balinese it means a large bowl used for ceremonial purposes. |
| Malayalam | In ancient Malayalam literature, 'പാത്രം' also refers to a measuring unit equivalent to a specific amount of rice or gold. |
| Maltese | From the Italian "scutella," which can also mean a small plate made of clay, metal, or ceramic |
| Maori | The word 'peihana' also refers to a type of food container shaped like a bowl. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word 'वाडगा' (bowl) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'पात्र' (container) and also refers to a small earthenware vessel used for storing grains. |
| Mongolian | In Turkic languages "ayag" means "leg" and this meaning is also preserved in Mongolian language, but "аяга" bowl is probably borrowed from Tibetan "skya" meaning "skull"} |
| Nepali | The word "kachaura" is derived from the Sanskrit word "kaca" meaning "glass" or "crystal". |
| Norwegian | The word "bolle" can also refer to a type of bun, with various sweet or savory fillings |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Chewa word 'mbale' for 'bowl' is related to the word 'kujambula' meaning 'to dig', with the 'mba-' prefix indicating the tool used. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "کاسه" can also refer to a beggar's bowl or a bowl-shaped depression in the ground. |
| Persian | The word 'کاسه' ('bowl') in Persian has various other meanings and etymological origins. |
| Polish | The word "miska" in Polish can be traced back to the Proto-Slavic word *miska, which also meant "bowl". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Tigela" is derived from the Latin word "tegula", meaning "tile" or "dish", and can also refer to a specific type of Portuguese bread soup. |
| Punjabi | The word "katōrā" comes from Sanskrit "kaṭa" meaning "cup," and is a cognate of "casserole". |
| Romanian | "Castronul" in Romanian comes from the Latin word for „pot" "castronus", and also has alternate meanings of "pot" or even "vessel for milk" |
| Russian | 'Миска' also means 'dish', 'plate', 'saucer', or 'basin' in Russian, cognate with 'miska' ('bowl') in Polish, 'miska' ('plate') in Croatian, and 'miska' ('bowl', 'pot') in Old Church Slavonic. |
| Samoan | The word "pesini" can also refer to a large wooden dish used to serve food, or a small wooden dish used to hold water. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, "bobhla" can also refer to a hollow or depression on a surface. |
| Serbian | In Serbo-Croatian the primary meaning is a deep dish or a large shallow dish, while in Russian it is used to specifically describe bowls carved from wood. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, the word "sekotlolo" can also refer to a hollowed-out calabash or a deep valley. |
| Shona | "Mbiya" can also mean "brain" or a "calabash" |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "پيالو" (bowl) shares its root with other Indo-European languages, including the Sanskrit "pātra" and the Latin "patera," both of which also refer to drinking vessels or bowls. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "පාත්රය" in Sinhala can also refer to a vessel, utensil, or a sacred vessel used in religious rituals. |
| Slovak | The word misa also means 'mass' in Slovak and is derived from the Latin word 'missa', which originally meant 'dismissal'. |
| Slovenian | In the Prekmurje dialect of Slovenian, |
| Somali | The word "baaquli" is also used to refer to a type of large, flat basket used for winnowing grain. |
| Spanish | The word "cuenco" also refers to a musical instrument made from a hollowed gourd, used to accompany traditional dances. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "mangkok" can also refer to a small earthenware pot or a small basket. |
| Swahili | In some contexts, bakuli refers to a type of traditional African head covering. |
| Swedish | Skål in Swedish can also refer to a cheer or toast, as in the phrase "skål och välkommen" (literally, "toast and welcome"). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "mangkok" can also refer to a type of hat worn by women in the Philippines. |
| Tajik | The word "коса" in Tajik also means "braid" in Russian. |
| Tamil | The word ''கிண்ணம்'' not only refers to a bowl, but also appears in several old Tamil texts as a unit of liquid measurement, equivalent to 240 ml, and is cognate with the word ''kinnara''. |
| Telugu | The word "గిన్నె" (ginne) is derived from the Sanskrit word "घट" (ghaṭa), meaning "jar" or "pot" |
| Thai | The word "ชาม" (cham) can also mean "a small bowl for condiments" or "a small shallow basin for water used in ceremonies" |
| Turkish | The word "çanak" is also used metaphorically to refer to a situation or event that is difficult to handle or resolve. |
| Ukrainian | The word "чаша" ("bowl") in Ukrainian can also refer to the Holy Grail or the Cup of Christ in Christian traditions. |
| Urdu | پیالہ (bowl), from Sanskrit 'pāl' (a cup), is derived from Proto-Indo-European 'peh₂u-' indicating 'to drink, nourish'. It is a cognate to 'pial' (to drink) |
| Uzbek | The word "kosa" in Uzbek can also refer to a "mortar" or a "pestle". |
| Vietnamese | "Bát" literally means "eight," as Vietnamese bowls typically have eight sides. |
| Welsh | The verb 'bowlen' (in Welsh, 'bwlio') also means 'to cast a stone', 'to play marbles', and 'to play a game of bowls'. |
| Xhosa | The word "isitya" can also refer to a specific type of traditional Xhosa hat. |
| Yiddish | The word "שיסל" also serves as a euphemism for a toilet or a head. |
| Yoruba | The word `abọ` in Yoruba also refers to the round shape of the bowl and can be used to describe other round objects. |
| Zulu | "Isitsha" is also used in Zulu to refer to a woman of status or to an important position or situation. |
| English | A 'bowl' can also refer to a large wooden or earthenware vessel used for carrying liquids or dry goods, or the hollowed-out portion of a spoon. |