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See also: boçal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French bocal. Doublet of pokal.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bocal (plural bocals)
- A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the cor anglais, bassoon, and contrabassoon) to the rest of the instrument.
- A cylindrical glass vessel with a short wide neck.
Translations
[edit]metal tube connecting a double reed to the instrument
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian boccale.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bocal m (plural bocaux)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: bocal
Further reading
[edit]- “bocal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Homophones: bucal (Portugal), vocal (Porto)
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: bo‧cal
Noun
[edit]bocal m (plural bocais)
- an aperture
- brim (of a bottle or any other container)
- Encha até o bocal. ― Fill it up to the brim.
- Synonym: boca
- (construction) the metal piece into which a light bulb is inserted and rotated
- the part of the candlestick into which the candle is inserted
- (construction) parapet at the edge of a cistern or well
- lower part of a coat's sleeve
- brim (of a bottle or any other container)
- in saddle animals
- nozzle
- (music) a type of embouchure
- (medicine) a channel that, when fixated to the tip of a duct, regulates the liquid flux or is used to pass fluid
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “bocal”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “bocal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]bocal n (plural bocaluri)
- Alternative form of pocal
Declension
[edit]Declension of bocal
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bocal | bocalul | (niște) bocaluri | bocalurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) bocal | bocalului | (unor) bocaluri | bocalurilor |
vocative | bocalule | bocalurilor |
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