bowtie

English

Two bowties, not tied.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈbowˌtɑj/
• (UK) IPA: /bəʊˈtaɪ/

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Alternative forms

• bow tie

Noun

A man wearing a red bowtie.

bowtie (plural bowties)

1. A man’s necktie tied in a bow around the throat.

Translations

necktie shaped like a bow

Arabic: ربطة عنق كفراشة (ar) (ribaaT `unuq kafaraashah) m. Bosnian: leptir mašna (bs) f. Czech: motýlek (cs) m. Danish: sløjfe (da) c., butterfly (da) c. Dutch: vlinderdas (nl) m., strikje (nl) n. Esperanto: bantkravato (eo) Estonian: kikilips (et) Finnish: rusetti (fi) French: nœud papillon (fr), nœud pap' (fr) m. (familiar) German: Fliege (de) f. Hebrew: עניבת פרפר (he) (anivat parpar) f. Hungarian: csokornyakkendő (hu) Icelandic: slaufa (is) f., þverslaufa (is) f. Italian: cravattino (it) m., cravatta a farfalla (it) f. Korean: 보타이 (ko), 나비넥타이 (ko) Latvian: tauriņš (lv) m. Lithuanian: varlytė (lt) Macedonian: пеперушка (mk) (pepéruška) f., кравата-пеперутка (mk) (kraváta-pepérutka) f. Norwegian: sløyfe (no) f.

Polish: muszka (pl) f. Portuguese: gravata de laço (pt) f. (Portugal), gravata borboleta (pt) f. (Brasil) Romanian: papion (ro) n. Russian: галстук-бабочка (ru) f., бабочка (ru) (bábočka) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ле̏птӣр (sh) m. Roman: lȅptīr (sh) m. Slovak: motýlik (sk) m. Slovene: metuljček (sl) m. Spanish: corbata de humita f. (Chile), corbata de lacito f. (Venezuela), corbata de moño f. (Mexico), corbata de pajarito f. (Guatemala), corbata gato f. (Bolivia), corbata michi f. (Peru), corbatín m. (Central America, Colombia, Venezuela), lacito m. (Puerto Rico), moñita f. (Uruguay), moño m. (Argentina), pajarita f. (especially Spain) Swedish: fluga (sv) c. Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: papyon (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

External links

• Bowtie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

bowtie (not comparable)

1. Having the shape that the displayed part of a bowtie does when the latter is tied.

   The corkscrew pasta holds the cheese sauce better, but all I had in the cupboard was bowtie pasta.

Translations

shaped like a bow-tie

Finnish: rusetti- (fi), rusettimainen (fi), rusetin muotoinen (fi) French: en nœud papillon (fr) inv.

Icelandic: slaufu- (is) Macedonian: пеперушковиден (mk) (peperuškovíden) m.