(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “given origins of the sport from Spain there must be something better than this surface analysis”)
From bull + fighting.
- IPA(key): /ˈbʊlˌfaɪ.tɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: bull‧fight‧ing
bullfighting (usually uncountable, plural bullfightings)
- A traditional spectacle, popular in Spain and many former Spanish colonies, in which a matador manipulates and ultimately kills a bull at close range.
2007, Wikipedia:Cattle:In Portugal, Spain, Southern France and some Latin American countries, bulls are used in the sport of bullfighting.
spectacle of manipulating and killing a bull
— see also bullfight
- Afrikaans: stiergeveg
- Arabic: مُصَارَعَة ثِيرَانٍ f (muṣāraʕat ṯīrānin)
- Armenian: ցլամարտ (hy) (cʻlamart)
- Azerbaijani: öküz döyüşü
- Basque: tauromakia
- Bulgarian: бикоборство n (bikoborstvo)
- Catalan: tauromàquia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 公牛戰鬥/公牛战斗 (gōngniú zhàndòu), 鬥牛/斗牛 (zh) (dòuniú)
- Dutch: stierenvechten n
- Estonian: härjavõitlus
- Finnish: härkätaistelu (fi)
- French: tauromachie (fr) f, corrida (fr) f
- Galician: toureo m, tauromaquia (gl) f, corrida de touros (gl) f
- Georgian: კორიდა (ḳorida), ხარების ბრძოლა (xarebis brʒola)
- German: Stierkampf (de)
- Greek: ταυρομαχία (el) (tavromachía)
- Hebrew: מלחמת שוורים f (milkhemet shvarym)
- Hungarian: bikaviadal (hu)
- Italian: toromachia f, corrida (it) f
- Japanese: 闘牛 (ja) (とうぎゅう, tōgyū), 雄牛の戦い (おうしのたたかい, oushi-no tatakai)
- Korean: 황소 싸움 (hwangso ssaum)
- Latin: tauromachia f
- Maltese: ġlieda tat-toru
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tyrefekting m or f, tyrefektning m or f
- Nynorsk: tyrefekting f
- Persian: گاوبازی (fa) (gâvbâzi)
- Polish: korrida (pl) f
- Portuguese: tauromaquia (pt) f, tourada (pt) f, corrida de touros f
- Romanian: coridă (ro) f
- Russian: бой быко́в (ru) m (boj bykóv), корри́да (ru) f (korrída)
- Spanish: toreo (es) m, tauromaquia (es) f, corrida de toros f
- Swedish: tjurfäktning (sv) c
- Turkish: boğa güreşi (tr)
- Vietnamese: đấu bò
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