Finger Bowl

  

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Finger Bowl

Definition: Finger Bowl

Finger Bowl

Noun

1. Small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Translations: Finger Bowl

Language Translations for "finger bowl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kupë e vogël (canakin, canikin, cannikin). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏إناء الأنامل. (various references)

   

Czech

  

miska s vodou na umytí rukou po jídle. (various references)

   

French

  

rince-doigt. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

א טל (jug, vessel), טל" (water jug). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kézöblítő edény, kézöblítő csésze. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

フィールド競技 (face, face sheet, face value, face-card, face-off, fade, fade ball, fade-in, fade-out, fatal, Federation Internationale de Nation Amateur cup, FI, fiance, fiction, field events, fielder's choice, fifty-fifty, figurative, figure, figure skating, Fiji, filament, filaria, filibuster, fill, fill-in, film, film library, film net, filter, filter-bank, filtering, fin, FINA cup, finale, finger, fingering, finish, Finland, fiscal policy, fish, fish meal, fishing, fit, fitness, fitness shoes, fitting, fitting room, fix, fixed, fixer, fjord, FO, phase, Philadelphia, philanthropy, philharmonic, philharmonie, Philippines, Philips, philosophy, physical, physical protection, questionnaire that asks for a demographic profile, vinyl drainpipe with fins). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

フィンガーボール . (various references)

   

Manx

  

meilley ushtey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingerfay owlbay

   

Russian 

  

небольшая чаша. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

čaša za pranje prstiju posle jela. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lavafrutas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sköljkopp (slop basin, slop-basin). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

el yıkama tası. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

невелика чаша. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Finger Bowl

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-f-g-i-l-n-o-r-w"

-1 letter: flowering, reflowing.

-2 letters: boweling, bowering, elbowing, florigen, forewing, lowering, roweling.

-3 letters: blowier, blowing, bonfire, bowline, bowling, brewing, brownie, flinger, flowing, foreign, fowling, ignoble, lobefin, obliger, reflown, rolfing, wolfing.

-4 letters: belong, berlin, binger, biogen, blower, boiler, bonier, boring, bowfin, bowing, bowleg, bowler, eloign, eringo, finger, florin, flower, foible, fowler, fringe, gerbil, globin, glower, goblin, golfer.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-f-g-i-l-n-o-r-w"
 

+1 letter: beflowering, furbelowing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Finger Bowl


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 6E 67 65 72      42 6F 77 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000010 01101111 01110111 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#119 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006E 0067 0065 0072      0042 006F 0077 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

407580737184236818978

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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