oval

See also: Oval and ovál

English

Etymology

From Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊvəl

Noun

oval (plural ovals)

1. A shape rather like an egg or an ellipse.
2. A sporting arena etc. of this shape.
3. (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points, no three collinear, such that there is a unique tangent line at each point. (A tangent line is defined as a line meeting the point set at only one point, also known as a 1-secant.)

Derived terms

• hyperoval
• roval

Translations

shape like an egg or ellipse

• Arabic: إِهْلِيلَج (ʔihlīlaj)
• Armenian: օվալ (hy) (ōval)
• Asturian: óvalu m
• Azerbaijani: oval
• Belarusian: ава́л m (avál)
• Bengali: ডিম্বাকার (ḍimbakar), উপবৃত্তাকার (upobrittakar)
• Bulgarian: овал m (oval)
• Catalan: oval (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卵形 (zh) (luǎnxíng), 橢圓形／椭圆形 (zh) (tuǒyuánxíng), 椭圆形 (zh) (tuǒyuánxíng)

• Czech: ovál m
• Danish: oval c
• Dutch: ovaal (nl)
• Esperanto: ovalo
• Estonian: ovaal
• Finnish: ovaali (fi), soikio (fi)
• French: ovale (fr) m
• Georgian: ოვალი (ovali)
• German: Oval (de) n
• Greek: ωόδης m or f (oódis)
• Greenlandic: tumaasaavoq
• Hebrew: אוּבָל (he)
• Hindi: अंडाकार (hi) m (aṇḍākār)
• Irish: ubhchruth m
• Italian: ovale (it) m
• Japanese: 卵形 (ja) (らんけい, rankei, たまごがた, tamagogata)
• Kazakh: сопақша (sopaqşa), сопақ (sopaq)
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• Korean: 타원 (ko) (tawon), 달걀꼴 (dalgyalkkol)
• Kyrgyz: узунча тегерек (uzunca tegerek), сүйрү (ky) (süyrü)
• Latvian: ovāls m
• Lithuanian: ovalas m
• Macedonian: овал m (oval)
• Maori: porotītaha
• Navajo: heeneezgo názbąs
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oval (no) m

  Nynorsk: oval m

• Polish: owal (pl) m
• Portuguese: ovoide (pt) m
• Romanian: oval (ro) n
• Russian: ова́л (ru) m (ovál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: овал m

  Roman: oval (sh) m

• Slovak: ovál (sk) m
• Slovene: oval m
• Spanish: óvalo (es) m
• Swedish: oval (sv) c
• Tagalog: habilog
• Turkish: oval (tr)
• Ukrainian: ова́л (uk) m (ovál)
• Uzbek: oval (uz)
• Vietnamese: hình trái xoan (vi)
• Welsh: hirgrwn (cy) m

Adjective

oval (comparative more oval, superlative most oval)

1. Having the shape of an oval.
2. Of or pertaining to an ovum.

   oval conceptions

Usage notes

The adjectives oval, ovate, and ovoid all come from roots meaning "egg-shaped". They are usually denotatively synonymous. A connotation of one end being bigger than the other (which is often true of eggs) may or may not be implied. Of the three, oval is the one mostly likely to connote a symmetrical ellipse.

Derived terms

• bioval
• ovaline
• ovalish
• ovally
• plurioval
• monoval
• unioval

Translations

oval-shaped

• Arabic: إِهْلِيلَجِيّ (ʔihlīlajiyy), بَيْضَوِيّ m (bayḍawiyy)
• Armenian: ձվաձեւ (jvajew)
• Asturian: ovaláu, oval
• Bengali: ডিম্বাকার (ḍimbakar), উপবৃত্তাকার (upobrittakar)
• Bulgarian: овален (bg) (ovalen)
• Catalan: oval (ca)
• Czech: oválný
• Dutch: ovaal (nl), eivormig (nl)
• Esperanto: ovala
• Finnish: soikea (fi)
• French: ovale (fr)
• Galician: oval
• German: oval (de)
• Greek: ωοειδής (el) (ooeidís)

  Ancient: ᾠοειδής (ōioeidḗs), ᾠώδης (ōiṓdēs)

• Hebrew: סגלגל (he) (s'galgál), אובלי (he) (ováli)
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• Interlingua: oval
• Irish: ubhach, ubhchruthach
• Italian: ovale (it)
• Korean: 타원형 (ko) (tawonhyeong)
• Maori: porotītaha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oval (no), avlang

  Nynorsk: oval, avlang

• Polish: owalny (pl)
• Portuguese: oval (pt), ovoide (pt), ovalado
• Russian: ова́льный (ru) m (oválʹnyj), ова́льная (ru) f (oválʹnaja), ова́льное (ru) n (oválʹnoje)
• Spanish: oval, ovalado (es)
• Swedish: oval (sv)
• Turkish: oval (tr)
• Welsh: hirgrwn (cy) m, hirgron (cy) f

of or pertaining to an ovum

• Catalan: ovular (ca)
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• Portuguese: ovular

See also

• ovoid
• ovum

Anagrams

• vola

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Asturian

Adjective

oval (epicene, plural ovales)

1. oval (oval-shaped)

Synonyms

• ovaláu

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Catalan

Etymology

ou +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈβal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [oˈval]

Adjective

oval m or f (masculine and feminine plural ovals)

1. oval

   Synonym: ovalat

Noun

oval m (plural ovals)

1. oval

Related terms

• ovoide

Further reading

• “oval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “oval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “oval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “oval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

oval (comparative ovaler, superlative am ovalsten)

1. oval

Synonyms

• eiförmig
• eirund

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ovalis, from ovum (“egg”)

Adjective

oval (neuter singular ovalt, definite singular and plural ovale)

1. oval

Noun

oval m (definite singular ovalen, indefinite plural ovaler, definite plural ovalene)

1. an oval

Derived terms

• ovalformet

References

• “oval” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ovalis, from ovum (“egg”)

Adjective

oval (neuter singular ovalt, definite singular and plural ovale)

1. oval

Noun

oval m (definite singular ovalen, indefinite plural ovalar, definite plural ovalane)

1. an oval

References

• “oval” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Adjective

1. oval (shaped like an egg)

Synonyms

• ovalado, ovoide

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈbal/ [oˈβ̞al]

Adjective

oval m or f (masculine and feminine plural ovales)

1. oval (shaped like an oval)

   Synonym: ovalado

Related terms

• óvalo
• ovoide
• ovalado
• huevo

Further reading

• “oval”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014