"bowe" meaning in All languages combined

See bowe on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: bowes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bowe (plural bowes)
  1. Obsolete spelling of bow. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: bow
    Sense id: en-bowe-en-noun-Qr-mHJRO

Verb [English]

Forms: bowes [present, singular, third-person], bowing [participle, present], bowed [participle, past], bowed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} bowe (third-person singular simple present bowes, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)
  1. Obsolete spelling of bow. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: bow
    Sense id: en-bowe-en-verb-Qr-mHJRO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 56 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 22 46 7 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 19 62 9 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 19 62 9 10

Noun [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈbɔu̯(ə)/ Forms: bowes [plural], bowen [plural], boue [alternative], boghe [alternative], boȝe [alternative]
Etymology: From Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō, in turn from Proto-Germanic *bugô. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|boga}} Old English boga, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*bogō}} Proto-West Germanic *bogō, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*bugô}} Proto-Germanic *bugô Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} bowe, {{enm-noun|pl2=bowen}} bowe (plural bowes or bowen)
  1. bow
    Sense id: en-bowe-enm-noun-wXev~f9k Categories (other): Weapons Disambiguation of Weapons: 87 13
  2. bowman
    Sense id: en-bowe-enm-noun-c-fsKv8c
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: elbowe, reynbowe, sadel-bowe

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bowes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bowe (plural bowes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bow"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of bow."
      ],
      "id": "en-bowe-en-noun-Qr-mHJRO",
      "links": [
        [
          "bow",
          "bow#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowe"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bowes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bowe (third-person singular simple present bowes, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bow"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 46 7 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 62 9 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 62 9 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              80,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:",
          "text": "We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of bow."
      ],
      "id": "en-bowe-en-verb-Qr-mHJRO",
      "links": [
        [
          "bow",
          "bow#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowe"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "elbowe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "reynbowe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sadel-bowe"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "bow"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "word": "bow"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "lang_code": "cy",
          "word": "bwa"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Welsh",
      "lang_code": "wlm",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "bwa"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "boga"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English boga",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*bogō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *bogō",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*bugô"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *bugô",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō, in turn from Proto-Germanic *bugô.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bowes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boue",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boghe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boȝe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bowe",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "pl2": "bowen"
      },
      "expansion": "bowe (plural bowes or bowen)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Weapons",
          "orig": "enm:Weapons",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He held a bow in his hand and many broad arrows / [which] were feathered with fine agreement[s] and many a false truth […]",
          "ref": "c. 1390, [William Langland], “Paſſus scdu͞s de dobeſt”, in Peres plouhman (X, C-text), southwest Worcestershire, published c. 1395, folio 103, recto; republished as MS. HM 143, San Marino, CA: Huntingdon Digital Library, p. 2011:",
          "text": "He baer a bowe ın hıs hoend and many brode arwes / Weren fythered wᵗ fayre bıheſte and many a fals treuthe",
          "translation": "He held a bow in his hand and many broad arrows / [which] were feathered with fine agreement[s] and many a false truth […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bow"
      ],
      "id": "en-bowe-enm-noun-wXev~f9k",
      "links": [
        [
          "bow",
          "bow"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bowman"
      ],
      "id": "en-bowe-enm-noun-c-fsKv8c",
      "links": [
        [
          "bowman",
          "bowman"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɔu̯(ə)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowe"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Weapons"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bowes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bowe (plural bowes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bow"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English obsolete forms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of bow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bow",
          "bow#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowe"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Weapons"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bowes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bowe (third-person singular simple present bowes, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bow"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English obsolete forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              80,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:",
          "text": "We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of bow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bow",
          "bow#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowe"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Weapons"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "elbowe"
    },
    {
      "word": "reynbowe"
    },
    {
      "word": "sadel-bowe"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "bow"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "word": "bow"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "lang_code": "cy",
          "word": "bwa"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Welsh",
      "lang_code": "wlm",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "bwa"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "boga"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English boga",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*bogō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *bogō",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*bugô"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *bugô",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō, in turn from Proto-Germanic *bugô.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bowes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bowen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boue",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boghe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boȝe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bowe",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "pl2": "bowen"
      },
      "expansion": "bowe (plural bowes or bowen)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He held a bow in his hand and many broad arrows / [which] were feathered with fine agreement[s] and many a false truth […]",
          "ref": "c. 1390, [William Langland], “Paſſus scdu͞s de dobeſt”, in Peres plouhman (X, C-text), southwest Worcestershire, published c. 1395, folio 103, recto; republished as MS. HM 143, San Marino, CA: Huntingdon Digital Library, p. 2011:",
          "text": "He baer a bowe ın hıs hoend and many brode arwes / Weren fythered wᵗ fayre bıheſte and many a fals treuthe",
          "translation": "He held a bow in his hand and many broad arrows / [which] were feathered with fine agreement[s] and many a false truth […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bow"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bow",
          "bow"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bowman"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bowman",
          "bowman"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɔu̯(ə)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowe"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bowe meaning in All languages combined (5.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.