kettle

kettle

See also: Kettle

English

Tea kettle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĕt'(ə)l, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.təl/, [ˈkʰɛtᵊɫ̩]

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.təl/, [ˈkʰɛɾɫ̩]
• (dated, regional US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪtəl/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛtəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English ketel, also chetel, from Old Norse ketill and Old English ċietel (“kettle, cauldron”), both from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (“kettle, bucket, vessel”), of uncertain origin and formation. Usually regarded as a borrowing of Late Latin catīllus (“small bowl”), diminutive of Latin catinus (“deep bowl, vessel for cooking up or serving food”), however, the word may be Germanic confused with the Latin: compare Old High German chezzi (“a kettle, dish, bowl”), Old English cete (“cooking pot”), Icelandic kati, ketla (“a small boat”). Cognate with West Frisian tsjettel (“kettle”), Dutch ketel (“kettle”), German Kessel (“kettle”), Swedish kittel (“cauldron”), Swedish kittel (“kettle”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (katils, “kettle”), Finnish kattila. Compare also Russian котёл (kotjól, “boiler, cauldron”).[2]

Noun

kettle (plural kettles)

1. A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.

   To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.

   There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.

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.

   Synonym: teakettle

   Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.

4. (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
5. (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.

   a kettle of hawks

   • 2010, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Raptors of New Mexico:

     Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together.

6. (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive
7. (music) A kettledrum.
8. An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.

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.

Derived terms

• kettle king
• kettle hat
• kettle helmet
• kettle of fish
• teakettle or tea kettle

Descendants

• → Brunei Malay: kitil
• → Hindi: केतली (ketlī)
• → Gujarati: કીટલી (kīṭlī)
• → Irish: citeal
• → Maltese: kitla
• → Zulu: igedlela

Translations

vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food

Afrikaans: ketel Albanian: kazan (sq) m Amharic: ኬት (ket) Arabic: غَلَّايَة‎ f (ḡallāya) Hijazi Arabic: غلاية‎ f (ḡallāya) Armenian: կաթսա (hy) (katʿsa) Azerbaijani: qazan (az) Belarusian: чайнік (čajnik), кацёл m (kacjól) Bengali: কেতলি (ketôli) Bikol Central: takuri (bcl) Brunei Malay: kitil Bulgarian: чайник (bg) m (čajnik) Burmese: ရေနွေးအိုး (my) (re-nwe:ui:) Catalan: caldera (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 水壺／水壶 (zh) (shuǐhú), 壺／壶 (zh) (hú) Czech: kotel (cs) m Danish: kedel c Dutch: ketel (nl) c Esperanto: bolkruĉo Evenki: kalan (kalan) Faroese: ketil m Finnish: kattila (fi) French: bouilloire (fr) f Georgian: საქვაბე (sakvabe), ქვაბი (kvabi), ქეთლი (ketli), ჩაიდანი (čaidani) German: Kessel (de) m, Kochtopf (de) m Greek: χύτρα (el) f (chýtra), κατσαρόλα (el) f (katsaróla) Gujarati: કીટલી f (kīṭlī) Hausa: būtā̀ f Hebrew: קוּמְקוּם‎ (he) m (qumqúm) Hindi: केतली (hi) f (ketlī) Hungarian: kanna (hu), vízforraló kanna, teafőző (hu), vízforraló (hu), üst (hu), bogrács (hu), (please verify) fazék (hu) Icelandic: ketill (is) m Indonesian: ketel (id) Irish: citeal (ga) m Italian: bollitore (it) m, cucuma (it) f, pentola (it) f Japanese: 薬缶 (ja) (yakan) Kannada: ಕೆಟಲ್ (keṭal) Khmer: ឆ្នាំង (km) (cnaŋ) Kom (Cameroon): ngɨ̀ (kettle made from a calabash) Korean: 주전자 (ko) (jujeonja) Kyrgyz: казан (ky) (kazan), чайнек (ky) (çaynek) Lao: ນໍ້າມັນ (nam man) Latgalian: kotlys Latin: cortīna f, cucuma f Latvian: katls Lithuanian: virdulys m Lü: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: чајник m (čajnik), котле n (kotle) Malay: ketel Maltese: kitla f Maori: tīkera Marathi: किटली (kiṭlī) Middle English: caudroun, ketel Mongolian: данх (mn) (danx) Nanai: qalä Norman: ticl'ye m North Frisian: sedel m (Föhr-Amrum), Serel c (Sylt) Occitan: pairòl (oc) m Ojibwe: akik Old English: ċietel m Old Frisian: sthitil Old Norse: ketill m Ottoman Turkish: قزان‎ (kazan) Persian: کتری‎ (fa) (ketri) Plautdietsch: Grope m Polish: czajnik (pl) m, kocioł (pl) m Portuguese: chaleira (pt) f, bule (pt) m Romanian: ceainic (ro) n Russian: котёл (ru) m (kotjól), ча́йник (ru) m (čájnik) (teakettle) Scottish Gaelic: coire m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ко̀тао m, ка̀зан m, ча̑јнӣк m Roman: kòtao (sh) m, kàzan (sh) m, čȃjnīk (sh) m Sinhalese: කේතලය (kētalaya) Slovak: kotol m Slovene: kotel (sl) m Somali: kirliga Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: kóśeł m Sotho: ketlele Spanish: caldera (es) f, calentador (es) f Swahili: birika (sw) class 5/6 Swedish: kittel (sv) c Tagalog: takuri, kawa (tl) Tamil: கெண்டி (ta) (keṇṭi) Telugu: కేటిల్ (kēṭil) Thai: กา (th) (gaa) Tibetan: ཁོག་ལྟིར (khog ltir) Turkish: kazan (tr) Ukrainian: ча́йник m (čájnyk), коте́л m (kotél) Urdu: کیتلی‎ f (ketlī) Uzbek: chovgun (uz) Vietnamese: ấm (vi), bình đun siêu tốc Welsh: tegell f West Frisian: tsjettel White Hmong: hwj

quantity held by a kettle

Finnish: kattilallinen, pannullinen Greek: χύτρα (el) f (chýtra), κατσαρόλα (el) f (katsaróla) Hungarian: kanna (hu), fazék (hu), kannányi, fazéknyi Macedonian: чајник m (čajnik), котле n (kotle) Russian: котёл (ru) m (kotjól) Scottish Gaelic: coire m Vietnamese: ấm (vi)

teakettle — see teakettle

pothole — see pothole

group of raptors

Finnish: parvi (fi)

steam locomotive — see steam locomotive

kettledrum — see kettledrum

kettle hole — see kettle hole

Verb

kettle (third-person singular simple present kettles, present participle kettling, simple past and past participle kettled)

1. (Britain, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
   • 2009, John O'Connor, G20: The upside of kettling, The Guardian :

     […] to contain demonstrators for hours in a confined spot. This tactic, known as kettling, is seen by some as an attempt to prevent people lawfully demonstrating.

2. (intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.

Translations

to contain demonstrators

French: nasser (fr)

Further reading

• kettle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kettle (birds) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

kettle (plural kettles)

1. Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”)

References

1. Hans Kurath and Raven Ioor McDavid (1961). The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States: based upon the collections of the linguistic atlas of the Eastern United States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, p. 133.
2. Oxford English Dictionary 2ed. "kettle"