bombe

See also: Bombe, bombé, bombë, and bomb

English

Etymology

From French bombe. Doublet of bomb.

Pronunciation

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• 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.

   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.

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

Translations

dessert made from ice cream

• French: bombe (fr) f
• German: Eisbombe (de) f
• Swedish: glassbomb c

device used in cryptanalysis

• French: bombe (fr) f
• German: Turing-Bombe f

Danish

Etymology

From French bombe.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bombe c (singular definite bomben, plural indefinite bomber)

1. (military, weaponry) bomb

Declension

Declension of bombe

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bombe	bomben	bomber	bomberne
genitive	bombes	bombens	bombers	bombernes

Derived terms

• a-bombe
• atombombe
• b-bombe
• benzinbombe
• bombealarm
• bombeangreb
• bombeanslag
• bombeattentat
• bombefly
• bombekrater
• bombemand
• bombenedslag
• bomberegn
• bombesikker
• bombeskjold
• bombetogt
• bombetrussel
• brandbombe
• brintbombe

 

Verb

bombe (past tense bombede, past participle bombet)

1. to bomb

Conjugation

Inflection of bombe

	present	past
simple	bomber	bombede
perfect	har bombet	havde bombet
passive	bombes	bombedes
participle	bombende	bombet
imperative	bomb	—
infinitive	bombe	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	bomben	—

Derived terms

• bomber
• bombning
• tæppebombe

Further reading

• “bombe” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃b/

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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

• bombe à retardement
• bombe atomique
• bombe cyclonique
• bombe météo
• bombe météorologique
• bombe sexuelle

 

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

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

Noun

bombe f

1. plural of bomba

Anagrams

• Bembo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.be/, [ˈbɔmbɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.be/, [ˈbɔmbe]

Noun

bombe

1. vocative singular of bombus

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bombe f (plural bombes)

1. (Jersey) bomb

Northern Kurdish

bombe

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

• atombombe
• bilbombe
• bombeangrep
• bombefly
• bombekrater
• bombesikker
• bombing
• isbombe (sense 3)
• klasebombe

 

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

• atombombe
• bilbombe
• bombeangrep
• bombefly
• bombekrater
• bombesikker
• bombing
• isbombe
• klasebombe

 

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): [ˈbombe]

Noun

bombe f

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