bow – English noun declension

English noun forms of bow

Noun: bow
Singularbow
Pluralbows

Sample Sentences

  • Holonym: bow and arrow
  • Bows come in a variety of different shapes, sizes and cultures, and what is true of one, is not necessarily true of another, so we're gonna be stereotyping here, but, in general, a bow is a way of launching a pointy stick at somebody that you don't like. [2024 November 28, blumineck, “Fantasy vs Reality: 5 weapons that fantasy gets wrong!”, in youtube.com, retrieved 07 May 2025:]
  • I do set my bow in the cloud. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 9:13:]
  • […] she kept toying with a pair of old sunglasses which lay beside her on the kitchen table. One of the bows had been mended with adhesive tape, and one of the lenses was cracked. [1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Booge (“arch, bow, curve”), West Frisian bôge (“arc, arch, bow”), Dutch boog (“arc, arch, bow”), German Bogen (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Luxembourgish Bou (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Vilamovian böga (“arc, arch, bend, bow, curve”), Yiddish בויגן (boygn, “arc, arch, bow, curve”), Danish bue (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Faroese and Icelandic bogi (“arch, bow, vault”), Jamtish buga (“bow”), Norwegian Bokmål bue (“arc, arch, bow”), Norwegian Nynorsk boge (“arc, arch, bow”), Swedish båge (“bow”), Crimean Gothic boga (“bow”). See: Middle English Nouns 'bowe', Old English Nouns 'boga', Dutch Nouns 'boog', German Nouns 'Bogen', Danish Nouns 'bue', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'bue', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'boge', Swedish Nouns 'båge'.

Verbs referencing "bow"

Danish Nouns bue, Danish Nouns bov, German Nouns Bogen, Old Norse Nouns bogi, Russian Nouns бугор.