bobine

See also: Bobine and bobiné

French

Etymology

Probably from Latin balbus because of the noise it made.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.bin/

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Noun

bobine f (plural bobines)

1. bobbin
2. reel, spool
3. drum
4. coil
5. (automotive) ellipsis of bobine d'allumage (“ignition coil”)
6. (colloquial) head, noggin; face

   Synonym: visage

   • 2016, Jacques Tardi, Dominique Grange, Le dernier assaut, Bruxelles; Paris: Casterman, →ISBN, page 14:

     Dis donc, t'as pas l'air dans ton assiette, camarade… Tu as la bobine d'un zigue qu'aurait pas la conscience tranquille…

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• bobine d'allumage (“ignition coil, spark coil”)
• bobine de Ruhmkorff

Related terms

• bobinage
• bobiner
• bobineur
• bobineuse
• bobinoir

Descendants

• → Catalan: bobina
• → English: bobbin
• Haitian Creole: bobin
• → Italian: bobina
• → Japanese: ボビン (bobin)
• → Khmer: បូប៊ីន (boobiin)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بوبین (bobin)
  • Turkish: bobin
• → Portuguese: bobina, bobine
• → Spanish: bobina

Verb

bobine

1. inflection of bobiner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “bobine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Verb

bobine

1. inflection of bobinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Noun

bobine f pl

1. plural of bobina

Anagrams

• nebbio

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /boˈbĩ.ni/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /boˈbĩ.ni/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /boˈbi.ne/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɔˈbi.nɨ/ [bɔˈβi.nɨ]

• Hyphenation: bo‧bi‧ne

Etymology 1

Noun

bobine f (plural bobines)

1. alternative form of bobina

Etymology 2

Verb

bobine

1. inflection of bobinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “bobine”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Verb

bobine

1. inflection of bobinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative