Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
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From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
billiards (uncountable)
- (games, British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
- Synonym: English billiards
- (games, US) Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
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Derived terms
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Translations
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any cue sport
- Albanian: bilardo (sq)
- Arabic: بِلْيَارْدُو m (bilyārdū)
- Armenian: բիլիարդ (hy) (biliard)
- Azerbaijani: bilyard (az)
- Belarusian: білья́рд m (bilʹjárd)
- Bulgarian: биля́рд m (biljárd)
- Catalan: billar (ca) m
- Chinese: 檯球/台球 (zh) (táiqiú), 桌球 (zh) (zhuōqiú), 撞球 (zh) (zhuàngqiú), 彈子/弹子 (zh)
- Cantonese: 檯波/台波 (toi2 bo1)
- Czech: kulečník m
- Danish: billard (da) c
- Dutch: biljart (nl) n
- Esperanto: bilardo
- Estonian: piljard (et)
- Faroese: biljard
- Finnish: biljardi (fi)
- French: billards (fr) m pl
- Georgian: ბილიარდი (biliardi)
- German: Karambolagen (de) f pl, Billard (de) n
- Greek: μπιλιάρδο (el) n (biliárdo)
- Greenlandic: billardi
- Hindi: बिलियर्ड्स (biliyarḍs), बिलियर्ड (hi) m (biliyarḍ)
- Hungarian: biliárd (hu)
- Icelandic: ballskák f
- Ido: biliardo (io)
- Irish: billéardaí m pl
- Italian: biliardi (it) m pl
- Japanese: ビリヤード (ja) (biriyādo)
- Kazakh: бильярд (bilärd)
- Korean: 당구(撞球) (ko) (danggu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bilyar (ku) f
- Latvian: biljards m
- Lithuanian: biliardas (lt)
- Macedonian: билија́рд m (bilijárd), билја́рд m (biljárd)
- Maltese: biljard
- Manx: billiardyn pl
- Maori: piriota
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: biljard m
- Nynorsk: biljard m
- Persian: بیلیارد (fa) (bilyârd)
- Polish: bilard (pl) m
- Portuguese: bilhar (pt) m
- Romanian: biliard (ro)
- Russian: билья́рд (ru) m (bilʹjárd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: билијар m, биљар m
- Roman: bilijar (sh) m, biljar (sh) m
- Slovak: biliard m, gulečník m
- Slovene: biljard m
- Spanish: billar (es) m
- Swedish: biljard (sv) c
- Tagalog: bilyar
- Thai: บิลเลียด (th) (bin lîat)
- Tibetan: རྒྱུག་པོལ (rgyug pol)
- Turkish: bilardo (tr)
- Ukrainian: білья́рд (uk) m (bilʹjárd)
- Vietnamese: trò chơi bi-a, bi-a
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Etymology 2
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billiards
- plural of billiard