bowtie

See also: bow-tie and bow tie

English

Two bowties, not tied.

Pronunciation

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• (US) IPA^(key): /boʊˈtaɪ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəʊˈtaɪ/

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.
2. (US) A kind of road intersection. See Bowtie (road).

Translations

necktie shaped like a bow

• Arabic: رَبْطَة عُنُق كَفَرَاشَة m ‎(rabṭat ʿunuq ka-farāša)
• Armenian: թիթեռնիկ-փողկապ ‎(tʿitʿeṙnik-pʿołkap)
• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: corbatí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蝶形領結, 蝶形领结 ‎(diéxíng lǐngjié), 蝴蝶结 (zh) ‎(húdiéjié)

• Czech: motýlek m
• Danish: sløjfe c, butterfly (da) c
• Dutch: vlinderdas (nl) m, strikje (nl) n
• Esperanto: bantkravato
• Estonian: kikilips
• Faroese: summarfuglur m
• Finnish: rusetti (fi), solmuke (fi), mirri (fi)
• French: nœud papillon (fr), nœud pap' (fr) m (familiar)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Fliege (de) f
• Greek: παπιγιόν (el) n ‎(papigión)
• Hebrew: עניבת פרפר (he) f ‎(anivat parpar)
• Hungarian: csokornyakkendő (hu)
• Icelandic: slaufa f, þverslaufa f
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: cravattino m, cravatta a farfalla f
• Japanese: ボウタイ (ja) ‎(bōtai)
• Norman: noeud papillote m
• Korean: 보타이 ‎(botai), 나비넥타이 (ko) ‎(nabinektai)
• Latvian: tauriņš m
• Limburgish: nóndezjuke

• Lithuanian: varlytė
• Macedonian: пеперушка f ‎(pepéruška), кравата-пеперутка f ‎(kraváta-pepérutka)
• Norwegian: sløyfe f, tversoversløyfe f
• Persian: پاپیون (fa) ‎(pâpiyon)
• Polish: muszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: gravata de laço f (Portugal), gravata borboleta f (Brasil)
• Romanian: papion (ro) n
• Russian: га́лстук-ба́бочка (ru) m ‎(gálstuk-bábočka), ба́бочка (ru) f ‎(bábočka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ле̏птӣр m, лептир машна f

  Roman: lȅptīr (sh) m, leptir mašna f

• Slovak: motýlik m
• Slovene: metuljček (sl) m
• Spanish: (Chile) corbata de humita f, (Venezuela) corbata de lacito f, (Mexico) corbata de moño (es) f, (Guatemala) corbata de pajarito f, (Bolivia) corbata gato f, (Peru) corbata michi f, (Central America, Colombia, Venezuela) corbatín (es) m, (Puerto Rico) lacito m, (Uruguay) moñita f, (Argentina) moño (es) m, (especially Spain) pajarita (es) f
• Swedish: fluga (sv) c
• Tagalog: buklod-kurbata
• Thai: ผ้าผูกคอหูกระต่าย ‎(phapookkhawhŏokratàai)
• Turkish: papyon (tr)
• Vietnamese: ca vát nơ bướm

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
• French: en nœud papillon (fr)

• Icelandic: slaufu-
• Macedonian: пеперушковиден m ‎(peperuškovíden)