different between bowl vs balla

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b???/, [b???]
• (US) IPA^(key): /bo??/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *boll?, from Proto-Germanic *bull? (“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”).

Noun

bowl (plural bowls)

1. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
2. As much as is held by a bowl.

3. A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.

4. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
5. The round hollow part of anything.

   Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.

   1. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
   2. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking

      Let's smoke a bowl!

   3. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
6. A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
7. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
8. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

Synonyms

• (as much as is held by a bowl): bowlful
• (haircut): bowl cut, pudding bowl
• (crater): crater, hollow

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)

1. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
2. The action of bowling a ball.
3. (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.

   Synonyms: lawn bowls, lawn bowling

Translations

Verb

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.
2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
3. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

4. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: bowle
• ? Dutch: bowlen

Translations

Anagrams

• Blow, b'low, blow

English

Alternative forms

• baller

Noun

balla (plural ballas)

1. (nonstandard, slang) One who is a superior ball player (usually basketball).

Catalan

Verb

balla

1. third-person singular present indicative form of ballar
2. second-person singular imperative form of ballar

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German valle, from Old High German falla, from fallan (“to fall”). Cognate with German Falle.

Noun

balla f (plural balln)

1. (Sette Comuni) trap

Declension

References

• “balla” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Faroese

Etymology

Related to sense 3 of English bale (“to wrap into a bale”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

Verb

balla (third person singular past indicative ballaði, third person plural past indicative ballað, supine ballað)

1. to wrap

Conjugation

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: ballas, ballât

Verb

balla

1. third-person singular past historic of baller

Icelandic

Noun

balla

1. indefinite genitive plural of böllur

Ilocano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bal?lá
• IPA^(key): /bal?la/, [b?l?la]

Noun

ballá

1. frenzy
2. (medicine) rabies
3. white fish

Derived terms

• agballa

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wall? (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?al???/

Noun

balla m (genitive singular balla, nominative plural ballaí)

1. wall

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "balla" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Etymology 1

Uncertain.

• From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ball.
• From Lombardic *palla, *balla.

Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla.

Noun

balla f (plural balle)

1. large bundle, torsello, bale, reap

   Synonyms: fagotto, fardello

2. falsehood, lie, malarkey

   Synonyms: bugia, frottola, fandonia

3. (vulgar, especially in the plural) testicle, bollock

   Synonyms: palla, coglione

Derived terms

• imballare
• sballare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

balla

1. third-person singular present indicative of ballare
2. second-person singular imperative of ballare

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ballene

Noun

balla n pl

1. definite plural of ball (Etymology 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

balla n pl

1. definite plural of ball (Etymology 2)

Romansch

Noun

balla f (plural ballas)

1. (sports, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) ball

Synonyms

• (Sutsilvan) bura
• (Surmiran) bora

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle English bailly (“outer castle wall”), from Medieval Latin ballium (“bail, security”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa???/

Noun

balla m (genitive singular balla, plural ballachan)

1. (architecture) wall

Mutation

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “balla”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page balla

Swedish

Adjective

balla

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of ball.

See also

• balla ur