From Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570.
oval (plural ovals)
- An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
- A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
- (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.
- (Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
shape like an egg or ellipse
- Arabic: إِهْلِيلَج (ʔihlīlaj)
- Armenian: օվալ (hy) (ōval)
- Asturian: óvalu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: oval
- Belarusian: ава́л m (avál)
- Bengali: ডিম্বাকার (ḍimbakar), উপবৃত্তাকার (bn) (upobrittakar)
- Bulgarian: овал m (oval)
- Catalan: oval (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 卵形 (zh) (luǎnxíng), 橢圓形/椭圆形 (zh) (tuǒyuánxíng)
- Czech: ovál m
- Danish: oval c
- Dutch: ovaal (nl)
- Esperanto: ovalo
- Estonian: ovaal
- Finnish: ovaali (fi), soikio (fi)
- French: ovale (fr) m
- Georgian: ოვალი (ovali)
- German: Oval (de) n
- Greek: ωόδης m or f (oódis)
- Ancient: θυρεός m (thureós), ᾠώδης (ōiṓdēs), ᾠοειδής (ōioeidḗs)
- Greenlandic: tumaasaavoq
- Hebrew: אוּבָל (he)
- Hindi: अंडाकार (hi) m (aṇḍākār)
- Hungarian: ovális (hu), tojásidom
- Irish: ubhchruth m
- Italian: ovale (it) m
- Japanese: 卵形 (ja) (らんけい, rankei, たまごがた, tamagogata), 楕円形 (ja) (だえんけい, daenkei) (ellipse)
- Kazakh: сопақша (sopaqşa), сопақ (sopaq)
- Korean: 타원 (ko) (tawon), 달걀꼴 (dalgyalkkol)
- Kyrgyz: узунча тегерек (uzunca tegerek), сүйрү (ky) (süyrü)
- Latvian: ovāls m
- Lithuanian: ovalas m
- Macedonian: овал m (oval)
- Maori: porotītaha, porohema
- Navajo: heeneezgo názbąs
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oval (no) m
- Nynorsk: oval m
- Polish: owal (pl) m
- Portuguese: ovoide (pt) m
- Romanian: oval (ro) n
- Russian: ова́л (ru) m (ovál)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: овал m
- Roman: oval (sh) m
- Slovak: ovál (sk) m
- Slovene: oval m
- Spanish: óvalo (es) m
- Swedish: oval (sv) c
- Tagalog: habilog
- Turkish: oval (tr)
- Ukrainian: ова́л (uk) m (ovál)
- Uzbek: oval (uz)
- Vietnamese: hình trái xoan (vi)
- Welsh: hirgrwn (cy) m
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oval (comparative more oval, superlative most oval)
- Having the shape of an oval.
- Of or pertaining to an ovum.
1901, Havelock Ellis, Sexual inversion, page 187:Every congenital abnormality is doubtless due to a peculiarity in the sperm or oval elements or in their mingling, or to some disturbance in their early development.
- oval conceptions
Any of the English adjectives derived from Latin ovum (including oval, ovate, ovoid) are typically considered synonymous when referring to egg-like shapes where one end is wider than the other but, out of all of them, oval is the most likely to be used in reference to a symmetrical ellipse.
oval-shaped
- Arabic: إِهْلِيلَجِيّ (ʔihlīlajiyy), بَيْضَوِيّ m (bayḍawiyy)
- Armenian: ձվաձեւ (hy) (jvajew)
- Asturian: ovaláu (ast), oval (ast)
- Bengali: ডিম্বাকার (ḍimbakar), উপবৃত্তাকার (bn) (upobrittakar)
- Bulgarian: овален (bg) (ovalen)
- Catalan: oval (ca), ovoide (ca)
- Czech: oválný (cs)
- Dutch: ovaal (nl), eivormig (nl)
- Esperanto: ovala
- Finnish: soikea (fi), munanmuotoinen, ovoidi
- French: ovale (fr), ovoïde (fr)
- Galician: oval
- German: oval (de)
- Greek: ωοειδής (el) (ooeidís)
- Ancient: ᾠοειδής (ōioeidḗs), ᾠώδης (ōiṓdēs)
- Hebrew: סְגַלְגַּל (he) (s'galgál), אוֹבָלִי (he) (ováli)
- Hungarian: ovális (hu), tojásdad (hu)
- Interlingua: oval
- Irish: ubhach, ubhchruthach
- Italian: ovale (it), ovoide (it), ovoidale (it)
- Korean: 타원형 (ko) (tawonhyeong)
- Maori: porotītaha
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oval (no), avlang
- Nynorsk: oval, avlang
- Persian: خایهدیس (xâye-dis)
- Polish: owalny (pl)
- Portuguese: oval (pt), ovoide (pt), ovalado
- Russian: ова́льный (ru) m (oválʹnyj), ова́льная (ru) f (oválʹnaja), ова́льное (ru) n (oválʹnoje)
- Spanish: oval (es), ovalado (es)
- Swedish: oval (sv)
- Turkish: oval (tr)
- Welsh: hirgrwn (cy) m, hirgron (cy) f
- Yiddish: אָוואַל (oval)
- Yoruba: ọ̀gbún
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of or pertaining to an ovum
oval c (singular definite ovalen, plural indefinite ovaler)
- oval (shape)
- oval (object)
oval (neuter ovalt, plural and definite singular attributive ovale)
- oval
Inflection of oval
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1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
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- IPA(key): /oˈbal/ [oˈβ̞al]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: o‧val
oval m or f (masculine and feminine plural ovales)
- oval (shaped like an oval)
- Synonym: ovalado
oval (not comparable)
- oval (having an elongated round shape)
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1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic
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oval c
- an oval (elongated round shape)