bowl

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A round, deep dish used for holding food or liquid.

   She poured the soup into a large bowl.

2. 2
   noun

   The amount of food that a bowl holds.

   He ate two bowls of cereal for breakfast.

3. 3
   verb

   To play the sport of bowling.

   My parents like to bowl on Friday nights.

4. 4
   verb

   To roll a ball.

   She bowled the ball smoothly down the lane.

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Simplified etymology

Bowl, recorded in Old English, belongs to the word family based on Latin bulla “bubble.” It first had the sense “ball” and ultimately developed the sense “basin.”

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.

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