different between bowl vs kom

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

Abinomn

Noun

kom

1. canoe; boat

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m/

Etymology 1

From Dutch komen.

Verb

kom (present kom, present participle komende, past participle gekom)

1. come

Etymology 2

From Dutch kom, from Middle Dutch comme.

Noun

kom (plural komme, diminutive kommetjie)

1. bowl

Descendants

• ? Swazi: inkomishi

Dagbani

Noun

kom

1. water

References

• A Linguistic and Discursive Analysis of Register Variation in Dagbani (2008, ?ISBN
• R. Blench, Dagbani

Danish

Pronunciation

• (imperative) IPA^(key): [?k??m]
• (past) IPA^(key): [?k??m?]

Verb

kom

1. imperative of komme
2. past tense of komme

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m/
• Hyphenation: kom
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Etymology beyond Middle Dutch comme debated; perhaps ultimately not of Germanic origin.

Noun

kom f (plural kommen, diminutive kommetje n)

1. bowl
2. basin
3. socket (hollow part in a bone)
4. (geography) (village) center, in particular one with buildings around a central square
5. (dated) built-up area

   Synonym: bebouwde kom

6. inner harbour

Derived terms

• waskom
• uit de kom
• bebouwde kom
• dorpskom
• vaartkom

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kom

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

kom

1. first-person singular present indicative of komen
2. imperative of komen

Anagrams

• mok

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ko?m]

Verb

kom

1. first/third-person singular past of koma
   • hann kom, sá og sigraði

     veni, vidi, vici (Julius Caesar)

2. imperative of koma

Icelandic

Verb

kom

1. inflection of koma:
   1. first-person singular past indicative
   2. third-person singular past indicative
   3. singular imperative

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French comme, Italian come, Spanish como. Decision no. 231, Progreso IV.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom/

Preposition

kom

1. as (being), in the capacity of

Synonyms

• esante

See also

• quale

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

kom

1. inflection of komme:
   1. simple past
   2. imperative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?/
• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

kom

1. past tense of koma, kome, komma and komme
2. imperative of koma, kome, komma and komme

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• (dative) IPA^(key): /kôm/
• (locative) IPA^(key): /k?m/

Pronoun

k?m (Cyrillic spelling ????) or kòm (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. to whom (dative)
2. who (locative)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m/

Verb

kom

1. past tense of komma.
2. imperative of komma.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English comb.

Noun

kom

1. comb
2. horn of an animal

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• kam

Pronoun

kom

1. who