bilge

See also: Bilge

English

Etymology

Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪld͡ʒ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

bilge (countable and uncountable, plural bilges)

1. (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
2. (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
3. (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
4. (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

   talk bilge

   complete bilge

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "The whole thing is the most absolute bilge and a disgrace to our legislature."

5. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.

Derived terms

• bilgeway
• bilgy

 

Translations

rounded portion of a ship's hull

Dutch: pastoor (nl) m Finnish: palle (fi) Galician: varenga f Hebrew: שִׁפּוּלַיִם (he) m pl (shipulayim) Maori: papakairā Polish: obło (pl) n Spanish: sentina (es) f

lowest inner part of a ship's hull

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: جَمَّة f (jamma), إِنْكِلِيَّة f (ʔinkiliyya) Catalan: sentina f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: dno lodi n Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: kielruimte f, lensruimte f, buik (nl) m Estonian: pilss Finnish: pilssi (fi) French: fond de cale (fr), sentine (fr) f German: Bilge (de) f Greek: σεντίνα (el) f (sentína) Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: שִׁפּוּלַיִם (he) m pl (shipulayim) Ido: bilgo (io) Italian: sentina (it) Maori: riu, pāwai, paewai Polish: zęza (pl) f, zenza f Russian: дни́ще (ru) n (dníšče) Sicilian: sintina f Slovene: please add this translation if you can Swedish: kölrum n, hålskepp n

bilge water

Catalan: aigua de sentina f Estonian: pilsivesi Finnish: pilssivesi (fi) German: Bilgewasser (de) n Greek: σεντινόνερο (el) n (sentinónero) Hebrew: מִי שִׁפּוּלַיִם (he) m pl (mey shipulayim) Italian: sentina (it) f Latin: sentina f Serbo-Croatian: kaljuža (sh) f Sicilian: sintina f Swedish: kölvatten (sv) n

nonsense

Catalan: estirabot (ca) m Czech: kecy m pl, žvásty m pl Italian: fesserie f pl, idiozie (it) f pl, sciocchezze (it) f pl Sicilian: fissarìi f pl, babbarijati f pl, minchiati (scn) f pl

Verb

bilge (third-person singular simple present bilges, present participle bilging, simple past and past participle bilged)

1. (nautical, intransitive) To spring a leak in the bilge.
2. (intransitive) To bulge or swell.
3. (nautical, transitive) To break open the bilge(s) of.

Related terms

• bilgewater / bilge water
• bilge keel
• bilge pump

Translations

to bulge

Finnish: pullistua (fi), paisua (fi)

Anagrams

• blige, gibel

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀 (b²il²ga /⁠bilge⁠/, “wise”), from 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /⁠bil-⁠/, “to know”) + 𐰏𐰀 (ga /⁠-ge⁠/). Compare bil- (“to know”). Fallen into disuse since the 15th century, but revived in 1935 in the campaign by the Türk Dil Kurumu to replace many loanwords by words with native Turkic roots.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bilˈɟe/

Adjective

bilge

1. wise, sage, profound

   Synonym: hakim

Noun

bilge (definite accusative bilgeyi, plural bilgeler)

1. wise person
2. polymath

See also

• akıllı
• bilgin
• zeki
• alim