bout

(Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
2. A boxing match.
3. An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
4. A roller derby match.
5. A fighting competition.
6. A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
7. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.

Verb

To contest a bout.

Prep

Aphetic form of about.

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ˈbaʊt/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: bught

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: *buht

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: byht

In summary

From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought.
For the sense development compare bender.

Hevwate

match

game

fight

contest

round

fit

turn

touch

binge

session

spell

spot

attack

👊

strife

struggle

battle

tear

bust

combat

tussle

pass

passage

period

play

scene

seizure

set-to

spar

spree

stopper

take

tourney

tug

twist

wrestle

wrestling

🤼

fit of rage

showstopper

conflict

athletic game

raptus

show-stopper

agent

time constant

bluster

booze

competition

cycle

dispute

drinking bout

Werger

combat

γύρος

ataque

👊

attaque

👊

accès

Anfall

Spiel

Runde

περιτροπή

Partie

κρίση

αρρώστεια

προσβολή

Kampf

Wettkampf