The fire isn't very hot, so it won't heat the kettle.
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Kettle
//ˈkɛ.təl//
Synonyms for "kettle" (20 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
Related word relations
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7 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesat location
4 entriescoordinate
7 entriesderived
37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
form of
1 entrieshas a
1 entrieshas context
7 entriesis a
7 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
43 entriesShowing 16 of 43 words.
used for
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
167 translations across 105 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- ketel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Albanian
1 entries- kazan noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Amharic
1 entries- ኬት noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Arabic
2 entries- غلاية noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- غَلَّايَة noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Armenian
1 entries- կաթսա noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- qazan noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- çaydan noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- çaynik noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Bashkir
2 entries- кәстрүл noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- сәйнүк noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Belarusian
2 entries- кацёл noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ча́йнік noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Bengali
1 entries- কেটলি noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Bikol Central
1 entries- takuri noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- kitil noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ча́йник noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Burmese
1 entries- ရေနွေးအိုး noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Catalan
1 entries- caldera noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 水壺 /水壶 noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 壺 /壶 noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- 水壺 /水壶 noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Czech
1 entries- kotel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Danish
1 entries- kedel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Dari
1 entries- چایجوش noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Dutch
1 entries- ketel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Esperanto
1 entries- bolkruĉo noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Estonian
2 entries- kann noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- katel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Evenki
1 entries- kalan noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Faroese
1 entries- ketil noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Finnish
4 entries- kattila noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- kattilallinen noun (quantity held by a kettle)
- pannullinen noun (quantity held by a kettle)
- parvi noun (group of raptors)
French
2 entries- bouilloire noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- nasser verb (to contain demonstrators)
Georgian
4 entries- საქვაბე noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ქეთლი noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ქვაბი noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ჩაიდანი noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
German
2 entries- Kessel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- Kochtopf noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Greek
4 entries- κατσαρόλα noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- κατσαρόλα noun (quantity held by a kettle)
- χύτρα noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- χύτρα noun (quantity held by a kettle)
Gujarati
1 entries- કીટલી noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Hausa
1 entries- būtā̀ noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Hebrew
1 entries- קוּמְקוּם noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Hindi
1 entries- केतली noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Hungarian
4 entries- bogrács noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- fazék noun (quantity held by a kettle)
- fazéknyi noun (quantity held by a kettle)
- kanna noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Icelandic
1 entries- ketill noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Indonesian
1 entries- ketel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- کِتْری noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Irish
1 entries- citeal noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Italian
3 entries- bollitore noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- cucuma noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- pentola noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Japanese
1 entries- 薬缶 noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Kannada
1 entries- ಕೆಟಲ್ noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Kazakh
3 entries- шәйнек noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- қазан noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- құман noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Khmer
1 entries- ឆ្នាំង noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Kom (Cameroon)
1 entries- ngɨ̀ noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Korean
1 entries- 주전자 noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- казан noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- чайнек noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- чөөгүн noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Lao
1 entries- ນໍ້າມັນ noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Latgalian
1 entries- kotlys noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Latin
2 entries- cortīna noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- cucuma noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Latvian
1 entries- katls noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Lithuanian
1 entries- virdulys noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- kóśeł noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Macedonian
4 entries- котле noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- котле noun (quantity held by a kettle)
- чајник noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- чајник noun (quantity held by a kettle)
Malay
1 entries- ketel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Maltese
1 entries- kitla noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Marathi
1 entries- किटली noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Middle English
2 entries- caudroun noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ketel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Mongolian
1 entries- данх noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Māori
1 entries- tīkera noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Nanai
1 entries- qalä noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Norman
1 entries- ticl'ye noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
North Frisian
2 entries- Serel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- sedel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kjele noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Occitan
1 entries- pairòl noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Ojibwe
1 entries- akik noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Old English
1 entries- ċietel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Old Frisian
1 entries- sthitil noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Old Norse
1 entries- ketill noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قزان noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Grope noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Polish
2 entries- czajnik noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- kocioł noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Portuguese
2 entries- bule noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- chaleira noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Romanian
1 entries- ceainic noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Russian
3 entries- котёл noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- котёл noun (quantity held by a kettle)
- ча́йник noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- coire noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- coire noun (quantity held by a kettle)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kàzan noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- kòtao noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- čȃjnīk noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ка̀зан noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Sinhalese
1 entries- කේතලය noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Slovak
1 entries- kotol noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Slovene
1 entries- kotel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Somali
1 entries- kirliga noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Sotho
1 entries- ketlele noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Spanish
3 entries- caldera noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- calentador noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- pava noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- ketre noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Swahili
1 entries- birika noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Swedish
1 entries- kittel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Tagalog
2 entries- kawa noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- takuri noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Tajik
2 entries- чойник noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- чойҷӯш noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Tamil
1 entries- கெண்டி noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Tatar
1 entries- чәйнек noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Telugu
1 entries- కేటిల్ noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Thai
1 entries- กา noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཁོག་ལྟིར noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Turkish
4 entries- kazan noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- kettle noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ketıl noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- su ısıtıcısı noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Turkmen
1 entries- çäýnek noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Tày
2 entries- pao noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ẩm noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Ukrainian
2 entries- коте́л noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ча́йник noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Unami
1 entries- wekathus noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Urdu
1 entries- کیتْلی noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Uyghur
2 entries- چۆگۈن noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- چەينەك noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Uzbek
2 entries- chovgun noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- choynak noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Vietnamese
3 entries- bình đun siêu tốc noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ấm noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- ấm noun (quantity held by a kettle)
Welsh
1 entries- tegell noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
West-Frisian
1 entries- tsjettel noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
White Hmong
1 entries- hwj noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Yakut
1 entries- чаанньык noun (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The pot can't call the kettle black.
Source: tatoeba (264631)
The pot calls the kettle black.
Source: tatoeba (280789)
She put a kettle on the gas.
Source: tatoeba (310655)
Showing 4 of 17 available sentences.
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