The word "bow" has several different meanings:
(noun - ribbon decoration) "Put a fancy bow on the package."
(noun - weapon to shoot arrows) "The archer had to stop to re-string his bow."
(noun - front of ship) "He stood at the bow of the ship, feeling the rush of the wind."
(noun - a strung rod for stringed instruments) "He bought a new bow for his violin."
(noun or verb - a formal motion)
"The entire cast came onto the stage for a final bow."
"At the start of the dance, each man will bow to his partner."
(verb - surrender, yield)
"The colonists would not bow to British demands for reparations."
I bow to the divine in you. I tied a yellow bow in her hair. The bow of the ship is up front, sailor. I'll need a stronger bow for my arrows.
She had her hair tied up prettily in a bow.
Which meaning of the word bow? There's the bow of a boat, a ribbon and bow, a bow and arrow, take a bow...
It can be confusing to use a homograph, because a female archer might not wear her bow in her hair, and shipbuilders do not give a polite bow to a ship.A homograph is a word written the same way as another word but having a different meaning.(Example: Bow-hair, weapon and Bow-front of a ship, or to bend at the waist)
Bow as in Bow and arrow in Hindi is Dhanush.
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bow (as in the bow of a ship or bowing down to the king)
"All the musicians were very talented, but his favourite was the cellist." It's a word for someone that plays a strong instrument with a bow, specifically a cello.
There is one syllable in the word "bow."
The sound of a vowel depends on the dialect of the language you are speaking, as well as context. In this case "bow" isn't very informative, if you think of the sentence "The girl with a bow in her hair took a bow from the bow of a boat, before shooting an arrow with her bow." Most dialects identify two or three sounds for the 'ow' in that sentence. In the general American dialect, it could make what is identified as a long o, similar to the vowel sounds in "no" or "goat", or it could make a very different sound, like the vowel sound in "now".
"Bow" as in "bow and arrow" is 'yumi.' "Bow" as in "bend at the waist" is 'ojiki.'
In Korean, "bow" can mean to bow as a sign of respect or to bow in the context of archery. The word for bow as a sign of respect is "인사하다 (insahada)" while the word for bow as in archery is "활 (hwal)."