ballon
English edit
Etymology edit
From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.
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Noun edit
ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)
- (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.
See also edit
- Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)
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Albanian edit
Noun edit
ballon m (plural ballona)
- Alternative form of balonë f
References edit
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “ballon”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 19a
Danish edit
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Noun edit
ballon c (singular definite ballonen, plural indefinite balloner)
- balloon (inflatable object)
- bulb
- carboy, demijohn (large bottle)
- (ballet, singular only) ballon (the quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair)
Inflection edit
Declension of ballon
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ballon | ballonen | balloner | ballonerne |
genitive | ballons | ballonens | balloners | ballonernes |
Descendants edit
- → Greenlandic: ballonngi
Further reading edit
- “ballon” in Den Danske Ordbog
- ballon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ballon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje n)
- balloon
- De kinderen lieten een ballon op tijdens het feest.
- The children released a balloon during the party.
- hot-air balloon
- Synonym: heteluchtballon
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French ballon. Doublet of balloune.
Pronunciation edit
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ballon m (plural ballons)
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Descendants
- → Albanian: balonë
- → Alemannic German: Balung
- → Arabic: بالون (bālūn)
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܵܠܘܿܢܵܐ (bālōnā)
- → Bulgarian: балон (balon)
- → Bwatoo: balo
- → Catalan: baló
- → Czech: balón
- → Danish: ballon
- → Greenlandic: ballonngi
- → Dutch: ballon
- → English: ballon
- → Greek: μπαλόνι (balóni)
- → Hausa: balan
- → Northern Kurdish: balon
- → Latvian: balons
- → Lithuanian: balionas
- → Macedonian: балон (balon)
- → Norwegian: ballong
- → Ottoman Turkish: بالون (balon), պալօն (balon)
- → Persian: بالون (bâlon)
- → Portuguese: balão
- → Romanian: balon
- → Russian: баллон (ballon)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: balón
- → Slovene: balon
- → Swedish: ballong
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “ballon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From northern Italian balone, ballone; compare standard pallone.
Noun edit
ballon m (plural ballons)
- large ball
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Verb edit
ballon