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English[edit]
Two bowties, not tied.
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
bow + tie
Pronunciation[edit]
A man wearing a red bowtie.
bowtie (plural bowties)
- A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
- (US) A kind of road intersection. See Bowtie (road).
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
necktie shaped like a bow
- Afrikaans: strikdas, stropdas
- Arabic: رَبْطَة عُنُق كَفَرَاشَة m (rabṭat ʕunuq ka-farāša)
- Armenian: թիթեռնիկ-փողկապ (tʿitʿeṙnik-pʿoġkap)
- Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: tximeleta-begizta
- Bulgarian: папионка (bg) f (papionka)
- Catalan: corbatí m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 煲呔 (bou1 taai1)
- Mandarin: 領結/领结 (zh) (lǐngjié)
- 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)
- Korean: 보타이 (botai), 나비넥타이 (ko) (nabinektai)
- Latvian: tauriņš m
- Limburgish: nóndezjuke
- Lithuanian: varlytė
- Macedonian: пеперушка f (peperuška), крава́та-пепе́рутка f (kraváta-pepérutka)
- Norman: noeud papillote m
- Norwegian: sløyfe (no) f, tversoversløyfe f
- Persian: پاپیون (fa) (pâpeyon)
- 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
- Sicilian: taḍḍarita 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)
- Ukrainian: краватка-метелик m (kravatka-metelyk), мете́лик (uk) m (metélyk)
- Vietnamese: ca vát nơ bướm
- Welsh: tei bo m, teis bo m pl
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Adjective[edit]
bowtie (not comparable)
- 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.
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