kettle

Etymology 1
From, also , from and in Middle English possibly influenced by  and both from , of uncertain origin and formation. Usually regarded as a borrowing of, diminutive of , however, the word may be Germanic confused with the Latin: compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
 * 2) The quantity held by a kettle.
 * 3) A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
 * 4)  A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
 * 5)   A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
 * 6)  A steam locomotive
 * 7)  A kettledrum.
 * 8) An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
 * 9)  A watch. Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch)
 * 1)  A steam locomotive
 * 2)  A kettledrum.
 * 3) An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
 * 4)  A watch. Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch)
 * 1) An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
 * 2)  A watch. Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch)

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.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ketel
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ኬት
 * Arabic: غَلَّايَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: غلاية
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, çaydan, çaynik
 * Bashkir: сәйнүк
 * Belarusian: ча́йнік, кацёл
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Brunei Malay: kitil
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 水壺
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kedel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: bolkruĉo
 * Evenki: kalan
 * Faroese: ketil
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: საქვაბე,, ქეთლი, ჩაიდანი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: કીટલી
 * Hausa: buta
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, vízforraló kanna, , , , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ಕೆಟಲ್
 * Kazakh:, , құман
 * Khmer:
 * Kom (Cameroon): ngɨ̀
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Lao: ນໍ້າມັນ
 * Latgalian: kotlys
 * Latin: cortīna, cucuma
 * Latvian: katls
 * Lithuanian: virdulys
 * Lü:
 * Macedonian: чајник, котле
 * Malay: ketel
 * Maltese: kitla
 * Maori: tīkera
 * Marathi: किटली
 * Middle English: caudroun, ketel
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Nanai: qalä
 * Norman: ticl'ye
 * North Frisian: sedel, Serel
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kjele
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: akik
 * Old English: ċietel
 * Old Frisian: sthitil
 * Old Norse: ketill
 * Ottoman Turkish: قزان
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, چای‌جوش
 * Plautdietsch: Grope
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: coire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ко̀тао, ка̀зан, ча̑јнӣк
 * Roman:, ,
 * Sinhalese: කේතලය
 * Slovak: kotol
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: kirliga
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kóśeł
 * Sotho: ketlele
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Sranan Tongo: ketre
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: takuri,
 * Tajik:, чойҷӯш
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: కేటిల్
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཁོག་ལྟིར
 * Turkish:, , ketıl,
 * Turkmen: çäýnek
 * Tày: ẩm, pao
 * Ukrainian: ча́йник, коте́л
 * Urdu: کیتْلی
 * Uyghur: چۆگۈن, چەينەك
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:, bình đun siêu tốc
 * Welsh: tegell
 * West Frisian: tsjettel
 * White Hmong: hwj
 * Yakut: чаанньык


 * Finnish: kattilallinen, pannullinen
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, , kannányi, fazéknyi
 * Macedonian: чајник, котле
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: coire
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1)  To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
 * 2)  Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.
 * 1)  Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.

Translations

 * French:

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) kettle