kettle

See also: Kettle

English

Tea kettle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĕt'(ə)l, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.təl/, [ˈkʰɛtᵊɫ̩]

• Audio (UK):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.təl/, [ˈkʰɛɾɫ̩]

• Audio (US):

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• (dated, regional US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪtəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛtəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English ketel, also chetel, from Old English ċietel (“kettle, cauldron”) and in Middle English possibly influenced by Old Norse ketill and both from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (“kettle, bucket, vessel”), of uncertain origin and formation. Usually regarded as a borrowing of Late Latin catīllus (“small bowl”), diminutive of Latin catinus (“deep bowl, vessel for cooking up or serving food”), however, the word may be Germanic confused with the Latin: compare Old English cete (“cooking pot”), Old High German chezzi (“a kettle, dish, bowl”), Icelandic kati, ketla (“a small boat”). Cognate with West Frisian tsjettel (“kettle”), Dutch ketel (“kettle”), German Kessel (“kettle”), Swedish kittel (“cauldron”), Swedish kittel (“kettle”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (katils, “kettle”), Finnish kattila, Polish kocioł (“cauldron”), Czech kotel (“boiler”), Russian котёл (kotjól, “boiler, cauldron”).

(watch): Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch).

Noun

kettle (plural kettles)

2. (cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.

   To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.

   There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.

3. The quantity held by a kettle.
4. A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.

   Synonym: teakettle

   Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.

5. (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
7. (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.

   a kettle of hawks

   • 2010, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Raptors of New Mexico:

     Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together.

8. (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive
9. (music) A kettledrum.
10. An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
11. (slang) A watch (timepiece).
12. A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.

Usage notes

In most varieties of English outside the United States (UK, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian), if not specified otherwise, kettle usually refers to a vessel or appliance used to boil water.

Derived terms

• a watched kettle never boils
• cat calling the kettle black
• cheese kettle
• coffee-kettle
• fish kettle
• giant kettle
• giant's kettle
• kettle bottom
• kettle cable
• kettle chip
• kettle corn
• kettle drum
• kettle-drum
• kettle fur collector
• kettle hat
• kettle helmet
• kettle lake
• kettle lead
• kettle logic
• kettle of fish
• kettle-pin
• kettle stitch
• kettle trap
• lunch kettle
• potash kettle
• pot calling the kettle black
• storm in a tea-kettle
• tea-kettle
• teakettle, tea kettle
• tempest in a tea-kettle

Descendants

• → Brunei Malay: kitil
• → Persian: کتری (ketri)
• → Bengali: কেটলি (keṭli)
• → Hindi: केतली (ketlī)
• → Gujarati: કીટલી (kīṭlī)
• → Irish: citeal
• → Maltese: kitla
• → Zulu: igedlela

Translations

vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food

• Afrikaans: ketel
• Albanian: kazan (sq) m
• Amharic: ኬት (ket)
• Arabic: غَلَّايَة f (ḡallāya)

  Hijazi Arabic: غلاية f (ḡallāya)

• Armenian: կաթսա (hy) (katʻsa)
• Azerbaijani: qazan (az), çaydan, çaynik
• Bashkir: сәйнүк (səynük)
• Belarusian: ча́йнік (čájnik), кацёл m (kacjól)
• Bengali: কেটলি (bn) (keṭli)
• Bikol Central: takuri (bcl)
• Brunei Malay: kitil
• Bulgarian: ча́йник (bg) m (čájnik)
• Burmese: ရေနွေးအိုး (my) (re-nwe:ui:)
• Catalan: caldera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 水壺 / 水壶 (seoi² wu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 水壺 / 水壶 (zh) (shuǐhú), 壺 / 壶 (zh) (hú)

• Czech: kotel (cs) m
• Danish: kedel c
• Dutch: ketel (nl) c
• Esperanto: bolkruĉo
• Estonian: katel (et), kann (et)
• Evenki: kalan
• Faroese: ketil m
• Finnish: kattila (fi)
• French: bouilloire (fr) f
• Georgian: საქვაბე (sakvabe), ქვაბი (ka) (kvabi), ქეთლი (ka) (ketli), ჩაიდანი (ka) (čaidani)
• German: Kessel (de) m, Kochtopf (de) m
• Greek: χύτρα (el) f (chýtra), κατσαρόλα (el) f (katsaróla)
• Gujarati: કીટલી f (kīṭlī)
• Hausa: būtā̀ f
• Hebrew: קוּמְקוּם (he) m (qumqúm)
• Hindi: केतली (hi) f (ketlī)
• Hungarian: kanna (hu), vízforraló kanna, teafőző (hu), vízforraló (hu), üst (hu), bogrács (hu), ^{(please verify)} fazék (hu)
• Icelandic: ketill (is) m
• Indonesian: ketel (id)
• Irish: citeal (ga) m
• Italian: bollitore (it) m, cucuma (it) f, pentola (it) f
• Japanese: 薬缶 (ja) (やかん, yakan)
• Kannada: ಕೆಟಲ್ (keṭal)
• Kazakh: қазан (kk) (qazan), шәйнек (kk) (şäinek), құман (qūman)
• Khmer: ឆ្នាំង (km) (chnang)
• Kom (Cameroon): ngɨ̀ (kettle made from a calabash)
• Korean: 주전자(酒煎子) (ko) (jujeonja)
• Kyrgyz: казан (ky) (kazan), чайнек (ky) (caynek), чөөгүн (ky) (cöögün)
• Lao: ນໍ້າມັນ (nam man)
• Latgalian: kotlys
• Latin: cortīna f, cucuma f
• Latvian: katls
• Lithuanian: virdulys m
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: чајник m (čajnik), котле n (kotle)
• Malay: ketel
• Maltese: kitla f
• Maori: tīkera
• Marathi: किटली (kiṭlī)
• Middle English: caudroun, ketel
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: данх (mn) (danx)

• Nanai: qalä
• Norman: ticl'ye m
• North Frisian: sedel m (Föhr-Amrum), Serel c (Sylt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjele m

• Occitan: pairòl (oc) m
• Ojibwe: akik
• Old English: ċietel m
• Old Frisian: sthitil
• Old Norse: ketill m
• Ottoman Turkish: قزان (kazan)
• Persian:

  Dari: چای‌جوش (čây-jôš)

  Iranian Persian: کِتْری (ketri)

• Plautdietsch: Grope m
• Polish: czajnik (pl) m, kocioł (pl) m
• Portuguese: chaleira (pt) f, bule (pt) m
• Romanian: ceainic (ro) n
• Russian: котёл (ru) m (kotjól), ча́йник (ru) m (čájnik) (teakettle)
• Scottish Gaelic: coire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀тао m, ка̀зан m, ча̑јнӣк m

  Roman: kòtao (sh) m, kàzan (sh) m, čȃjnīk (sh) m

• Sinhalese: කේතලය (kētalaya)
• Slovak: kotol m
• Slovene: kotel (sl) m
• Somali: kirliga
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kóśeł m

• Sotho: ketlele
• Spanish: caldera (es) f, calentador (es) f, pava (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: ketre
• Swahili: birika (sw) class 5/6
• Swedish: kittel (sv) c
• Tagalog: takuri, kawa (tl)
• Tajik: чойник (tg) (čoynik), чойҷӯш (čoyjüš)
• Tamil: கெண்டி (ta) (keṇṭi)
• Tatar: чәйнек (tt) (çäynek)
• Telugu: కేటిల్ (kēṭil)
• Thai: กา (th) (gaa)
• Tibetan: ཁོག་ལྟིར (khog ltir)
• Turkish: kazan (tr), kettle (tr), ketıl, su ısıtıcısı (tr)
• Turkmen: çäýnek
• Tày: ẩm, pao
• Ukrainian: ча́йник m (čájnyk), коте́л m (kotél)
• Urdu: کیتْلی f (ketlī)
• Uyghur: چۆگۈن (chögün), چەينەك (cheynek)
• Uzbek: chovgun (uz), choynak (uz)
• Vietnamese: ấm (vi), bình đun siêu tốc
• Welsh: tegell f
• West Frisian: tsjettel
• White Hmong: hwj
• Yakut: чаанньык (caannyık)

quantity held by a kettle

• Finnish: kattilallinen, pannullinen (fi)
• Greek: χύτρα (el) f (chýtra), κατσαρόλα (el) f (katsaróla)
• Hungarian: kanna (hu), fazék (hu), kannányi, fazéknyi
• Macedonian: чајник m (čajnik), котле n (kotle)
• Russian: котёл (ru) m (kotjól)
• Scottish Gaelic: coire m
• Vietnamese: ấm (vi)

teakettle — see teakettle

pothole — see pothole

group of raptors

• Finnish: parvi (fi)

steam locomotive — see steam locomotive

kettledrum — see kettledrum

kettle hole — see kettle hole

Verb

kettle (third-person singular simple present kettles, present participle kettling, simple past and past participle kettled)

1. (originally British, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
   • 2009, John O'Connor, G20: The upside of kettling: The Guardian‎^[1]:

     […] to contain demonstrators for hours in a confined spot. This tactic, known as kettling, is seen by some as an attempt to prevent people lawfully demonstrating.

2. (intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.

Translations

to contain demonstrators

• French: nasser (fr)

Further reading

• kettle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kettle (birds) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

kettle (plural kettles)

1. Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”)

Turkish

Alternative forms

• ketıl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English kettle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈce.tɯɫ/

Noun

kettle (definite accusative kettleı, plural kettlelar)

1. kettle (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)

   Synonyms: kazan, ketıl, su ısıtıcısı, su kaynatıcısı

Declension

Declension of kettle

singular plural nominative kettle kettlelar definite accusative kettleı kettleları dative kettlea kettlelara locative kettleda kettlelarda ablative kettledan kettlelardan genitive kettleın kettleların Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular kettleım kettlelarım 2nd singular kettleın kettleların 3rd singular kettleı kettleları 1st plural kettleımız kettlelarımız 2nd plural kettleınız kettlelarınız 3rd plural kettleları kettleları definite accusative singular plural 1st singular kettleımı kettlelarımı 2nd singular kettleını kettlelarını 3rd singular kettleını kettlelarını 1st plural kettleımızı kettlelarımızı 2nd plural kettleınızı kettlelarınızı 3rd plural kettlelarını kettlelarını dative singular plural 1st singular kettleıma kettlelarıma 2nd singular kettleına kettlelarına 3rd singular kettleına kettlelarına 1st plural kettleımıza kettlelarımıza 2nd plural kettleınıza kettlelarınıza 3rd plural kettlelarına kettlelarına locative singular plural 1st singular kettleımda kettlelarımda 2nd singular kettleında kettlelarında 3rd singular kettleında kettlelarında 1st plural kettleımızda kettlelarımızda 2nd plural kettleınızda kettlelarınızda 3rd plural kettlelarında kettlelarında ablative singular plural 1st singular kettleımdan kettlelarımdan 2nd singular kettleından kettlelarından 3rd singular kettleından kettlelarından 1st plural kettleımızdan kettlelarımızdan 2nd plural kettleınızdan kettlelarınızdan 3rd plural kettlelarından kettlelarından genitive singular plural 1st singular kettleımın kettlelarımın 2nd singular kettleının kettlelarının 3rd singular kettleının kettlelarının 1st plural kettleımızın kettlelarımızın 2nd plural kettleınızın kettlelarınızın 3rd plural kettlelarının kettlelarının