bombe

English

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bombe

Wikipedia

Etymology

French bombe. Doublet of bomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɒm(b)/
• Rhymes: -ɒm, -ɒmb

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, roughly hemispherical, 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.

   • 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.

3. (computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From French bombe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bombə/,
• Homophone: bumpe

Noun

bombe c (singular definite bomben, plural indefinite bomber)

1. (military, weapon) bomb

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

bombe (past tense bombede, past participle bombet)

1. to bomb

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bomber
• bombning
• tæppebombe

Further reading

• “bombe” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

bombe

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃b/

• Audio

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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 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.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Danish: bombe
• → English: bombe
• → German: Bombe
• → Lao: ບົມ (bom)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: bombe
• → Vietnamese: bom

Further reading

• “bombe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbom.be/
• Rhymes: -ombe
• Hyphenation: bóm‧be

Noun

bombe f

1. plural of bomba

Anagrams

• Bembo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.be/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.be/,

Noun

bombe

1. vocative singular of bombus

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bombe f (plural bombes)

1. (Jersey) bomb

Northern Kurdish

Noun

bombe f

1. bomb

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)

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

Verb

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

1. to bomb

References

• “bombe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

Verb

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

1. to bomb

References

• “bombe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

bombe

1. inflection of bombar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

bombe f

1. inflection of bombă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular