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ballon

See also: Ballon and ballón

English

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Etymology

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From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.

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ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)

  1. (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
    • 1988 November 18, Dorothy Samachson, “Moscow Classical Ballet”, in Chicago Reader‎[1]:
      Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov […] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career.

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.

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ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)

  1. balloon

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Albanian

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Noun

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ballon m (plural ballona)

  1. Alternative form of balonë f

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  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “ballon”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 19a

Danish

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ballon

Etymology

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From French ballon.

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  • IPA(key): /balɔnɡ/, [b̥aˈlʌŋ]

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ballon c (singular definite ballonen, plural indefinite balloner)

  1. balloon (inflatable object)
  2. bulb
  3. carboy, demijohn (large bottle)
  4. (ballet, singular only) ballon (the quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair)

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Declension of ballon
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ballon ballonen balloner ballonerne
genitive ballons ballonens balloners ballonernes

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  • → Greenlandic: ballonngi

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French ballon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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  • IPA(key): /bɑˈlɔn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bal‧lon
  • Rhymes: -ɔn

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ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje n)

  1. balloon
    De kinderen lieten een ballon op tijdens het feest.
    The children released a balloon during the party.
  2. hot-air balloon
    Synonym: heteluchtballon

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr
 
des ballons (definition 3 - round-bottomed flask)

Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French ballon. Doublet of balloune.

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ballon m (plural ballons)

  1. (inflatable) ball
    1. beachball
  2. balloon
  3. (chemistry) round-bottom flask

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From northern Italian balone, ballone; compare standard pallone.

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ballon m (plural ballons)

  1. large ball

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  • French: ballon (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: balloon (see there for further descendants)

Northern Sami

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Pronunciation

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  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpallon/

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ballon

  1. first-person singular imperative of ballat
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