bombe

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See also: Bombe, bombé, bombë, and bomb

English

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Etymology

French bombe. Doublet of bomb.

Pronunciation

Noun

bombe (plural bombes)

  1. A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.
  2. (chiefly in German cooking, otherwise rare) A small, cylindrical or spherical chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.)
    • 1983, Bon Appétit, volume 28, page 17:
      Sous-chef Daniel O'Reagan prepares an array of tempting desserts, including a zabaglione and marzipan bombe, chocolate mousse torte and an amaretto-flavored cheesecake.
    • 2009, Tim Richardson, Sweets: A History of Candy (→ISBN), page 374:
      Austria boasts the Mozart ball, a marzipan-filled chocolate ball wrapped in a portrait of the composer. Niemetz of Vienna also manufactures a famous marshmallow bombe called the Schwedenbombe.
  3. (computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From French bombe.

Noun

bombe c (singular definite bomben, plural indefinite bomber)

  1. (military, weaponry) bomb

Inflection

Declension of bombe
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bombe bomben bomber bomberne
genitive bombes bombens bombers bombernes

Further reading

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a boom”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔ̃b/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

bombe f (plural bombes)

  1. bomb (a device filled with explosives)
  2. aerosol (either the substance or the container)
  3. (colloquial) a hottie, a bombshell
    Synonyms: avion de chasse, bonnasse, canon
  4. globular glass vessel; demijohn, carboy
    Synonym: bonbonne
  5. bombe glacée, a frozen dessert consisting of two or more different kinds of ice cream, often with a light, frothy center made of eggs and sugar, frozen in a melon-shaped mold
  6. Ellipsis of bombe météorologique or bombe météo or bombe cyclonique.

Descendants

  • → Danish: bombe
  • → English: bombe

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

bombe f

  1. plural of bomba

Kurdish

bombe

Noun

Template:ku-noun

  1. bomb (a device filled with explosives)

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

(deprecated template usage) bombe

  1. vocative singular of bombus

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bombe f (plural bombes)

  1. (Jersey) bomb

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bombe f or m (definite singular bomba or bomben, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)

  1. a bomb
  2. a round spot in patterns
    • et blått slips med røde bomber
      a blue tie with red spots
  3. bombe

Derived terms

Terms derived from bombe

Verb

bombe (imperative bomb, present tense bomber, simple past and past participle bomba or bombet, present participle bombende)

  1. to bomb

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bombe f (definite singular bomba, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)

  1. a bomb
  2. a round spot in patterns
    • eit blått slips med raude bomber
      a blue tie with red spots
  3. bombe

Derived terms

Terms derived from bombe

Verb

bombe (present tense bombar, past tense bomba, past participle bomba, passive infinitive bombast, present participle bombande, imperative bombe/bomb)

  1. to bomb

References

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