bilge

See also: Bilge

English

Etymology

Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪld͡ʒ/

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Noun

bilge (countable and uncountable, plural bilges)

1. (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
2. (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
3. (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
4. (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "The whole thing is the most absolute bilge and a disgrace to our legislature."

   talk bilge

   complete bilge

5. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.

Translations

rounded portion of a ship's hull

• Dutch: pastoor (nl) m
• Finnish: palle
• Galician: varenga f
• Hebrew: שִׁפּוּלַיִם‎ (he) m pl (shipulayim)
• Maori: papakairā
• Polish: obło (pl) n
• Spanish: sentina (es) f

lowest inner part of a ship's hull

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: جَمَّة‎ f (jamma), إِنْكِلِيَّة‎ f (ʔinkiliyya)
• Catalan: sentina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: kielruimte f, lensruimte f, buik (nl) m
• Estonian: pilss
• Finnish: pilssi (fi)
• French: fond de cale (fr), sentine (fr) f
• German: Bilge (de) f
• Greek: σεντίνα (el) f (sentína)

  Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can

• Hebrew: שִׁפּוּלַיִם‎ (he) m pl (shipulayim)
• Ido: bilgo (io)
• Italian: sentina (it)
• Maori: riu, pāwai, paewai
• Polish: zęza (pl) f, zenza f
• Russian: дни́ще (ru) n (dníšče)
• Sicilian: sintina f
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: kölrum n, hålskepp n

bilge water

• Catalan: aigua de sentina f
• Estonian: pilsivesi
• Finnish: pilssivesi (fi)
• German: Bilgewasser (de) n
• Greek: σεντινόνερο (el) n (sentinónero)
• Hebrew: מִי שִׁפּוּלַיִם‎ (he) m pl (mey shipulayim)
• Italian: sentina (it) f
• Latin: sentina f
• Serbo-Croatian: kaljuža (sh) f
• Sicilian: sintina f
• Swedish: kölvatten (sv) n

nonsense

• Catalan: estirabot (ca) m
• Italian: fesserie f pl, idiozie (it) f pl, sciocchezze (it) f pl
• Sicilian: fissarìi f pl, babbarijati f pl, minchiati (scn) f pl

Verb

bilge (third-person singular simple present bilges, present participle bilging, simple past and past participle bilged)

1. (nautical, intransitive) To spring a leak in the bilge.
2. (intransitive) To bulge or swell.
3. (nautical, transitive) To break open the bilge(s) of.

Related terms

• bilgewater / bilge water
• bilge keel
• bilge pump

Translations

to bulge

• Finnish: pullistua (fi), paisua (fi)

Anagrams

• blige, gibel

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀‎ (b²il²ga /bilge/, “wise”), from 𐰋𐰃𐰠‎ (b²il² /bil-/, “to know”) + 𐰏𐰀‎ (ga /-ge/). Compare bil- (“to know”). Fallen into disuse since the 15th century, but revived in 1935 in the campaign by the Türk Dil Kurumu to replace many loanwords by words with native Turkic roots.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bilˈɟe/

Adjective

bilge

1. wise, sage, profound

   Synonym: hakim

Noun

bilge (definite accusative bilgeyi, plural bilgeler)

1. wise person
2. polymath

See also

• akıllı
• bilgin
• zeki
• alim