baseball

See also: Baseball, base ball, and base-ball

English

A baseball.

A game of baseball.

Alternative forms

• base ball (obsolete) [1800s]
• base-ball (dated)

Etymology

base +‎ ball

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/, /ˈbeɪs.bɑl/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

baseball (plural baseballs)

1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
   • 1817 December​, [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 1818, →OCLC:

     It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.

2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

Usage notes

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:baseball.

Derived terms

• baseball Annie
• baseball bat
• baseball cap
• baseball card
• baseball diamond
• baseball field
• baseball game
• baseball glove
• baseball mitt
• baseball player
• baseball rule
• baseball stadium
• baseballer
• baseballist
• British baseball
• fantasy baseball
• indoor baseball
• inside baseball
• inside-baseball
• organized baseball
• rotisserie baseball
• scrub baseball
• Welsh baseball

 

Translations

ball game

• Afrikaans: bofbal (af)
• Albanian: bejsbol m
• Arabic: بَيْسْبُول‎ m (baysbūl)
• Armenian: բեյսբոլ (hy) (beysbol)
• Asturian: béisbol m
• Azerbaijani: beysbol
• Belarusian: бейсбо́л m (bjejsból)
• Bengali: বেসবল (besobol)
• Bulgarian: бейзбол m (bejzbol)
• Burmese: ဗေ့စဘော (be.ca.bhau:), ဘေ့စ်ဘော (bhec.bhau:)
• Catalan: beisbol (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (alasgalodi)
• Chinese:

  Hakka: 野球 (hak) (yâ-khiù)

  Mandarin: 棒球 (zh) (bàngqiú)

  Min Nan: 野球 (zh-min-nan) (iá-kiû)

• Czech: baseball (cs) m
• Danish: baseball c
• Dutch: honkbal (nl) n
• Esperanto: basbalo, bazopilkado
• Estonian: pesapall (et)
• Finnish: baseball (fi), pesäpallo (fi) (Finnish variety of the game), amerikkalainen pesäpallo (rare)
• French: baseball (fr) m, base-ball (fr) m
• Galician: béisbol (gl) m
• Georgian: ბეისბოლი (beisboli)
• German: Baseball (de) m
• Greek: μπέιζμπολ (el) n (béizmpol)
• Hebrew: כדור-בסיס‎ (kadur-basys), בֵּיסבּוֹל / בייסבול‎ m (beysbol)
• Hindi: बेसबॉल m (besbŏl)
• Hungarian: baseball (hu)
• Icelandic: hafnabolti (is) m, hornabolti m
• Indonesian: bisbol (id)
• Irish: daorchluiche m
• Italian: baseball (it) m
• Japanese: 野球 (ja) (やきゅう, yakyū)
• Kazakh: бейсбол (beisbol)
• Khmer: បេស្បល (beesbɑɑl)
• Korean: 야구(野球) (ko) (yagu)
• Kyrgyz: бейсбол (beysbol)
• Lao: ເບດບອນ (bēt bǭn)
• Latin: ludus pilae et basium m, basipila f
• Latvian: beisbols m
• Lithuanian: beisbolas m
• Luxembourgish: Baseball
• Macedonian: безбол m (bezbol), бејзбол m (bejzbol)
• Malay: besbol
• Maltese: bejżbol
• Maori: poipapa
• Mongolian: бэйсбол (bejsbol)
• Navajo: jooł daakalígíí, jooł yikalí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: baseball m

  Nynorsk: baseball m

• Occitan: beisbòl m
• Ojibwe: bakitejii'igem
• Persian: بیسبال‎ (beysbâl)
• Plautdietsch: Beebaul m
• Polish: baseball (pl) m
• Portuguese: beisebol (pt) m (Brazil), basebol (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: baseball (ro) n
• Russian: бейсбо́л (ru) m (bejsból)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бѐјзбо̄л m

  Roman: bèjzbōl (sh) m

• Sinhalese: බේස්බෝල් (bēsbōl)
• Slovak: bejzbal m
• Slovene: baseball m
• Spanish: béisbol (es) m
• Swahili: besiboli
• Swedish: baseboll (sv) c
• Tagalog: beysbol
• Tajik: бейсбол (tg) (beysbol)
• Thai: เบสบอล (bées-bɔn)
• Turkish: beyzbol (tr)
• Turkmen: beýzbol, beýsbol
• Ukrainian: бейсбо́л (uk) m (bejsból)
• Urdu: بیس بال‎
• Uzbek: beysbol
• Vietnamese: bóng chày (vi)
• West Frisian: basebal
• Yiddish: בײסבאָל‎ (beysbol)

ball used in baseball-game

• Afrikaans: bofbal (af)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (alasgalodi)
• Dutch: honkbal (nl) m
• Finnish: baseball-pallo
• French: balle de baseball f
• Hungarian: baseball-labda
• Icelandic: hafnabolti (is) m, hornabolti m
• Maltese: ballun tal-bejżbol
• Navajo: jooł
• Plautdietsch: Beebaul m
• Portuguese: bola de beisebol f (Brazil)
• Swedish: baseboll (sv) c
• Turkish: beyzbol topu

variety of poker

See also

• rounders
• softball
• wiffleball
• Appendix:Glossary of baseball

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Noun

baseball m

1. baseball

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbei̯sboːl/, [ˈbe̞i̯s̠bo̞ːl]
• Syllabification^(key): base‧ball

Noun

baseball

1. baseball

Declension

Inflection of baseball (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		baseball	baseballit
genitive		baseballin	baseballien
partitive		baseballia	baseballeja
illative		baseballiin	baseballeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		baseball	baseballit
accusative	nom.	baseball	baseballit
	gen.	baseballin
genitive		baseballin	baseballien
partitive		baseballia	baseballeja
inessive		baseballissa	baseballeissa
elative		baseballista	baseballeista
illative		baseballiin	baseballeihin
adessive		baseballilla	baseballeilla
ablative		baseballilta	baseballeilta
allative		baseballille	baseballeille
essive		baseballina	baseballeina
translative		baseballiksi	baseballeiksi
instructive		—	baseballein
abessive		baseballitta	baseballeitta
comitative		—	baseballeineen

Possessive forms of baseball (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	baseballini	baseballimme
2nd person	baseballisi	baseballinne
3rd person	baseballinsa

Synonyms

• amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛz.bɔl/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

baseball m (uncountable)

1. post-1990 spelling of base-ball

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeːzboːl]
• Hyphenation: base‧ball
• Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

baseball (usually uncountable, plural baseballok)

1. (sports) baseball

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	baseball	baseballok
accusative	baseballt	baseballokat
dative	baseballnak	baseballoknak
instrumental	baseballal	baseballokkal
causal-final	baseballért	baseballokért
translative	baseballá	baseballokká
terminative	baseballig	baseballokig
essive-formal	baseballként	baseballokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	baseballban	baseballokban
superessive	baseballon	baseballokon
adessive	baseballnál	baseballoknál
illative	baseballba	baseballokba
sublative	baseballra	baseballokra
allative	baseballhoz	baseballokhoz
elative	baseballból	baseballokból
delative	baseballról	baseballokról
ablative	baseballtól	baseballoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	baseballé	baseballoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	baseballéi	baseballokéi

Possessive forms of baseball
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	baseballom	baseballjaim
2nd person sing.	baseballod	baseballjaid
3rd person sing.	baseballja	baseballjai
1st person plural	baseballunk	baseballjaink
2nd person plural	baseballotok	baseballjaitok
3rd person plural	baseballjuk	baseballjaik

Derived terms

Compound words

• baseballsapka

 

Further reading

• baseball in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.zbol/
• Rhymes: -ɛzbol

Noun

baseball m (invariable)

1. baseball

   Synonym: (rare) pallabase

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From American English baseball.

Noun

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

1. baseball (ball game)

References

• “baseball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “baseball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From American English baseball.

Noun

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

1. baseball (ball game)

References

• “baseball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Alternative forms

• bejsbol

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛj.zbɔl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛjzbɔl
• Syllabification: base‧ball

Noun

baseball m inan

1. baseball

Declension

Declension of baseball

	singular
nominative	baseball
genitive	baseballu
dative	baseballowi
accusative	baseball
instrumental	baseballem
locative	baseballu
vocative	baseballu

Derived terms

• baseballista
• baseballowy
• baseballówka

 

Further reading

• baseball in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

Noun

baseball n (uncountable)

1. baseball

Declension

declension of baseball (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) baseball	baseballul
genitive/dative	(unui) baseball	baseballului
vocative	baseballule

Swedish

Noun

baseball c

1. Alternative form of baseboll

Declension

Declension of baseball
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	baseball	baseballen	baseballar	baseballarna
Genitive	baseballs	baseballens	baseballars	baseballarnas

References

• baseball in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• baseball in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)