bolle.
a bowl; a round, deep container used especially for holding, mixing or serving food
Meaning & usage
a bowl; a round, deep container used especially for holding, mixing or serving food
Legg deigen i en stor bolle.
the contents of a bowl; a bowlful
Hun spiste en bolle suppe.
a former liquid measure equal to one quarter of an ask, or four juster
the head
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Norse bolli (“bowl, cup”), from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; ball; bowl”), an ablaut variant of *ballô (“ball”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk bolle, Icelandic bolli and Faroese bolli, Danish bolle, Swedish bulle, Old English bolla and English bowl.
to relax, enjoy oneself or make oneself comfortable
Nå skal vi bolle oss med kaffe og kake.
to juggle with or toss large matters around as though they were balls
Where this word comes from
Related to Danish bolde (“to play with or toss a ball”), derived from bold (“ball”); compare ball and balle (“to roll or bundle together”). In the reflexive sense, probably originally “to curl or roll oneself comfortably into a ball”; compare bolla ihop sig (“to curl up”) and sich zusammenballen (“to bunch or curl up”).
a bun; a small, usually round baked good, especially a soft, sweet yeast bun
Hun bakte boller med rosiner.
Her skal det bli andre boller. ― Things are going to be different around here.
a rounded ball or lump of minced meat, fish, potatoes or similar food
Suppen ble servert med små boller av fiskefarse.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Low German bolle (“round object; round wheat bread”), continuing Middle Low German bolle (“round object”), from Old Saxon bollo (“bowl, cup”), from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; ball; bowl”). Although borrowed by a different route, it ultimately belongs to the same Germanic word family as the inherited noun in Etymology 1. Compare Danish bolle and Swedish bulle (“bun; rounded food mass”).
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