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English
Two bowties, not tied.
Etymology
bow + tie
Pronunciation
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Noun
A man wearing a red bowtie.
bowtie (plural bowties )
A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
( US ) A kind of road intersection . See Bowtie (road) .
Derived terms
Translations
necktie shaped like a bow
Afrikaans: strikdas , stropdas
Arabic: رَبْطَة عُنُق كَفَرَاشَة m ( rabṭat ʕunuq ka-farāša )
Armenian: թիթեռնիկ-փողկապ ( tʻitʻeṙnik-pʻoġkap )
Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
Basque: tximeleta-begizta
Bulgarian: папионка (bg) f ( papionka )
Catalan: corbatí m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 煲呔 ( bou1 taai1 )
Mandarin: 領結 / 领结 (zh) ( lǐngjié )
Czech: motýlek m
Danish: sløjfe c , butterfly (da) c
Dutch: vlinderdas (nl) m , strikje (nl) n
Esperanto: bantkravato
Estonian: kikilips
Faroese: summarfuglur m
Finnish: rusetti (fi) , solmuke (fi) , mirri (fi)
French: nœud papillon (fr) , nœud pap’ (fr) m ( familiar )
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Fliege (de) f
Greek: παπιγιόν (el) n ( papigión )
Hebrew: עניבת פרפר (he) f ( anivat parpar )
Hungarian: csokornyakkendő (hu)
Icelandic: slaufa f , þverslaufa f
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Italian: cravattino (it) m , cravatta a farfalla f
Japanese: ボウタイ (ja) ( bōtai )
Korean: 보타이 ( botai ) , 나비넥타이 (ko) ( nabinektai )
Latvian: tauriņš m
Limburgish: nóndezjuke
Lithuanian: varlytė , peteliškė f
Macedonian: пеперушка f ( peperuška ) , крава́та-пепе́рутка f ( kraváta-pepérutka )
Norman: noeud papillote m
Norwegian: sløyfe (no) f , tversoversløyfe f
Persian: پاپیون (fa) ( pâpeyon )
Polish: muszka (pl) f
Portuguese: gravata de laço f ( Portugal ) , gravata borboleta f ( Brasil )
Romanian: papion (ro) n
Russian: га́лстук-ба́бочка (ru) m ( gálstuk-bábočka ) , ба́бочка (ru) f ( bábočka )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ле̏птӣр m , лептир машна f
Roman: lȅptīr (sh) m , leptir mašna f
Sicilian: taḍḍarita f
Slovak: motýlik m
Slovene: metuljček (sl) m
Spanish: ( Chile ) corbata de humita f , ( Venezuela ) corbata de lacito f , ( Mexico ) corbata de moño (es) f , ( Guatemala ) corbata de pajarito f , ( Bolivia ) corbata gato f , ( Peru ) corbata michi f , ( Central America, Colombia, Venezuela ) corbatín (es) m , ( Puerto Rico ) lacito m , ( Uruguay ) moñita f , ( Argentina ) moño (es) m , ( especially Spain ) pajarita (es) f
Swedish: fluga (sv) c
Tagalog: buklod-kurbata
Thai: ผ้าผูกคอหูกระต่าย ( phapookkhawhŏokratàai )
Turkish: papyon (tr)
Ukrainian: краватка-метелик m ( kravatka-metelyk ) , мете́лик (uk) m ( metélyk )
Vietnamese: ca vát nơ bướm
Welsh: tei bo m , teis bo m pl
Further reading
Adjective
bowtie (not comparable )
Having the shape that the displayed part of a bowtie does when the latter is tied .
The corkscrew pasta holds the cheese sauce better, but all I had in the cupboard was bowtie pasta.
Translations