bombe
English
Etymology
From French bombe. Doublet of bomb.
Pronunciation
Noun
bombe (plural bombes)
- A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.
- (chiefly in German cooking, otherwise rare) A small, roughly hemispherical, chocolate-covered confection.
- Coordinate term: 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.
- 2000, New York Times, The New York Times Guide to New York City 2001, page 454:
- The best dessert by far is the chocolate-caramel bombe, a gorgeous chocolate-dusted dome with a heart of passion fruit crème brûlée.
- 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.
- (computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.
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Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bombe c (singular definite bomben, plural indefinite bomber)
Declension
Derived terms
Verb
bombe (past tense bombede, past participle bombet)
- to bomb
Conjugation
Derived terms
Further reading
- “bombe” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a boom”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bombe f (plural bombes)
- bomb (a device filled with explosives)
- aerosol (either the substance or the container)
- (colloquial) a hottie, a bombshell
- Synonyms: avion de chasse, bonnasse, canon
- globular glass vessel; demijohn, carboy
- Synonym: bonbonne
- bombe glacée, a frozen dessert consisting of two or more kinds of ice cream, often with a light, frothy center made of eggs and sugar, frozen in a melon-shaped mold
- Ellipsis of bombe météorologique or bombe météo or bombe cyclonique.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Danish: bombe
- → English: bombe
- → German: Bombe
- → Lao: ບົມ (bom)
- → Persian: بمب (bomb)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: bombe
- → Vietnamese: bom
Further reading
- “bombe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
bombe f
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbom.be/, [ˈbɔmbɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbom.be/, [ˈbɔmbe]
Noun
bombe
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
bombe f (plural bombes)
Northern Kurdish
Noun
bombe f
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French bombe (“bomb, aerosol”), from Italian bomba (“bomb”), from Latin bombus (“a buzz or humming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “any deep, hollow sound, humming, buzzing, booming, rumbling”), imitative of the sound itself.
Noun
bombe f or m (definite singular bomba or bomben, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)
Derived terms
Verb
bombe (imperative bomb, present tense bomber, simple past and past participle bomba or bombet, present participle bombende)
- to bomb
References
- “bombe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
bombe f (definite singular bomba, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)
Derived terms
Verb
bombe (present tense bombar, past tense bomba, past participle bomba, passive infinitive bombast, present participle bombande, imperative bombe/bomb)
- to bomb
References
- “bombe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Verb
bombe
- inflection of bombar:
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
bombe f
- inflection of bombă:
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