bombe
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Etymology edit
French bombe. Doublet of bomb.
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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. (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.
- 1983, Bon Appétit, volume 28, page 17:
- (computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.
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Danish edit
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bombe c (singular definite bomben, plural indefinite bomber)
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bombe (past tense bombede, past participle bombet)
- to bomb
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Further reading edit
- “bombe” in Den Danske Ordbog
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a boom”).
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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.
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Descendants edit
- → Danish: bombe
- → English: bombe
- → German: Bombe
- → Lao: ບົມ (bom)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: bombe
- → Vietnamese: bom
Further reading edit
- “bombe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
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bombe f
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbom.be/, [ˈbɔmbɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbom.be/, [ˈbɔmbe]
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bombe
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Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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bombe f (plural bombes)
Northern Kurdish edit
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bombe f
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
bombe f or m (definite singular bomba or bomben, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)
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bombe (imperative bomb, present tense bomber, simple past and past participle bomba or bombet, present participle bombende)
- to bomb
References edit
- “bombe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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bombe f (definite singular bomba, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)
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bombe (present tense bombar, past tense bomba, past participle bomba, passive infinitive bombast, present participle bombande, imperative bombe/bomb)
- to bomb
References edit
- “bombe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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bombe
- inflection of bombar:
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bombe f
- inflection of bombă: