bowl

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Ancient Roman clay bowl

A bowl is usually a deep, round-bellied vessel with or without a lid, which is used to arrange, serve or store food. A bowl is usually a small bowl without a lid. Regardless of its purpose, a bowl is a flatter and wider bowl.

etymology

This word, like so many other vessel names (see also: kettle , pan , bucket ) than technical term from the Roman cuisine to the Germans came. The Old High German Scuzilla goes back to the Latin word scutella , which means something like "drinking bowl". Another name is the term “Weitling” or “Weidling”, which is particularly common in the southern German-speaking area. In the German dictionary it is called "Earthen bowl". In northern Germany, the bowl is often referred to as "Kumme" or "Kump".

history

Borosilicate glass ( Pyrex ) mixing bowl from the 20th century

Bowls have been used since the Neolithic . At that time they were made of stone , wood or clay . Today they are also made from plastic, glass, porcelain, ceramics and metal.

The increasing spread of kitchen machines has made it easier to use mixing bowls made of break-proof plastic for food, especially for liquids, viscous substances or salads. In them, dishes are prepared or served, and dough is kneaded and stirred. A well-known example is the Margrethe mixing bowl .

Symbolic meaning

The bowl, like the bowl, is an ancient, almost archaic symbol in the human unconscious. In the interpretation of dreams she is viewed as a symbol of the womb, also translated as a sacrificial bowl . You sacrifice yourself for someone or give yourself completely (as a woman) to someone. If the bowl breaks, then love also breaks .

Idioms

  • “Having a crack in the bowl” is what they say about someone who is thought to be slightly crazy.
  • "Sitting in front of empty bowls" means going hungry.
  • “ Eating out of a bowl” means making common cause with someone.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Bowls and Bowls  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files
Wiktionary: key  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weitling. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 28 : Weh – Wendunmut - (XIV, 1st section, part 1). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1955, Sp. 1306 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ↑ Weidling. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 28 : Weh – Wendunmut - (XIV, 1st section, part 1). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1955, Sp. 610 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  3. ↑ Entry on Schüssel in the Austria Forum, accessed on August 11, 2012
  4. ↑ cum. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873, Sp. 2588-2589 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  5. ↑ Georg Haddenbach: Imagery of the Unconscious. Falcons 1982, ISBN 3-8068-0444-3 .