funnel

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Etymology

Old English funel, fonel, probably through Old French, from Latin fundibulum, infundibulum (“funnel”), from infundere (“to pour in”); in (“in”) + fundere (“to pour”); compare Breton founil (“funnel”), Welsh ffynel (“air hole, chimney”). See fuse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfʌnəl/, X-SAMPA: /"fVn@l/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌnəl

Noun

funnel (plural funnels)

1. A utensil of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids etc. into a close vessel; a tunnel.
2. A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.

Derived terms

terms derived from funnel (noun)

funnel box funnel mark

funnel plot funnel stay

Translations

utensil used to guide poured liquids

• Afrikaans: tregter (af)
• Albanian: hinkë (sq)
• Armenian: ձագար (hy) (jagar)
• Azeri: qıf (az), huni (az)
• Basque: inbutu (eu)
• Belarusian: варонка (be) (varónka) f
• Bulgarian: фуния (bg) (fúnija) f
• Catalan: embut (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漏斗 (cmn) (lòudǒu)

• Czech: trychtýř (cs) m
• Danish: tragt (da) c
• Dutch: trechter (nl)
• Estonian: lehter (et)
• Finnish: suppilo (fi), tratti (fi)
• French: entonnoir (fr) m
• Galician: funil (gl)
• Georgian: ძაბრი (ka) (jabri)
• German: Trichter (de) m
• Greek: χωνί (el) (choní) n, χοάνη (el) (choáni) f
• Hungarian: tölcsér (hu)
• Icelandic: trekt (is)
• Indonesian: corong (id)
• Italian: imbuto (it) m
• Japanese: 漏斗 (ja) (ろうと, rōto, じょうご, jōgo), ファンネル (ja) (fanneru)

• Korean: 퍼널 (ko) (peoneol)
• Lao: ດ່ຽວຈັບ (lo) (diav chab)
• Latin: fundibulum (la), infundibulum (la)
• Macedonian: инка (mk) (ínka) f
• Malay: corong (ms)
• Norwegian: trakt (no)
• Persian: قیف (fa) (qif)
• Polish: lejek (pl) m
• Portuguese: funil (pt) m
• Romanian: pâlnie (ro) f
• Russian: воронка (ru) (vorónka) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: левак (sh) m, љевак (sh) m, лијевак (sh) m

  Roman: levak (sh) m, ljevak (sh) m, lijevak (sh) m

• Slovak: lievik (sk) m
• Slovene: lijak (sl) m
• Spanish: embudo (es) m
• Swedish: tratt (sv) c
• Tagalog: imbudo (tl)
• Telugu: గరాటు (garaaTu)
• Turkish: huni (tr)
• Ukrainian: воронка (uk) (vorónka) f
• Uzbek: mo'ri (uz), mo'rikon (uz)
• Vietnamese: cái quặn (vi)
• Yiddish: לייקע (yi) (lyyqʻ) m

smoke flue, chimney

• Danish: skorstenspibe (da) c
• Finnish: savukanava (fi), savupiippu (fi)
• French: cheminée (fr) f
• Galician: cheminea (gl) f
• German: Schlot (de) m
• Greek: καπνοδόχος (el) (kapnodóchos) f, (ships etc.) φουγάρο (el) (fougáro) n

• Romanian: cos (de fum) (ro) m
• Russian: дымоход (ru) (dymoxód) m
• Spanish: chimenea (es) f
• Welsh: ffynnel

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Translations to be checked

• Breton: founil
• Franco-Provençal: founil

See also

• tundish

Verb

funnel (third-person singular simple present funnels, present participle funnelling or funneling, simple past and past participle funnelled or funneled)

1. To use a funnel.
2. To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to narrow or condense.

   Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.

3. (transitive) To direct (money or resources).

   Our taxes are being funnelled into pointless government initiatives.

Translations

To use a funnel

• Dutch: door een trechter gieten (nl)

• French: utiliser un entonnoir (fr)

To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel

• Dutch: door een kleiner opening voeren (nl),kanaliseren (nl)

• French: canaliser (fr),

To direct (money or resources).

• Dutch: geld doen circuleren (nl)

• French: faire circuler des resources ou de l'argent (fr),

Derived terms

• refunnel