tennis

See also: Tennis

English

Etymology

Old French tenez, second-person imperative of tenir (“hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.ɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnɪs

Noun

tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)

1. (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

     “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”

2. (dated) A match in this sport.
   • 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)

     We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]

3. (obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     tennis-balls

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.

Derived terms

• football tennis
• lawn tennis
• real tennis
• table tennis
• tennis ball
• tennis court
• tennis elbow
• tennis player
• tennis racket
• tennis racquet

 

Descendants

• → Armenian: թենիս (tʿenis)
• → Burmese: တင်းနစ် (tang:nac)
• → Catalan: tennis
• → Czech: tenis
• → Danish: tennis
• → Dutch: tennis
• → Finnish: tennis
• → French: tennis
• → Galician: tenis
• → German: Tennis
• → Hindi: टेनिस (ṭenis)
• → Italian: tennis
• → Japanese: テニス (tenisu)
• → Korean: 테니스 (teniseu)
• → Polish: tenis
• → Portuguese: tênis, ténis
• → Russian: те́ннис (ténnis)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ténis, те́нис
• → Spanish: tenis
• → Telugu: టెన్నిసు (ṭennisu), టెన్నిస్ (ṭennis)
• → Thai: เทนนิส (ten-nís)
• → Turkish: tenis

Translations

sport played by two or four players with strung racquets

• Afrikaans: tennis (af)
• Albanian: tenis (sq) m
• Amharic: ተኒስ (tänis)
• Arabic: تَنِس‎ m (tanis), تِنِس‎ m (tinis), كُرَةُ المَضرِب‎
• Armenian: թենիս (hy) (tʿenis)
• Asturian: tenis m
• Azerbaijani: tennis
• Bashkir: теннис (tennis)
• Bavarian: Tennis
• Belarusian: тэ́ніс m (ténis)
• Bengali: টেনিস (ṭeniś)
• Bulgarian: те́нис (bg) m (ténis)
• Burmese: တင်းနစ် (tang:nac)
• Catalan: tennis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 網球 (zh), 网球 (zh) (wǎngqiú)

• Czech: tenis (cs) m
• Danish: tennis (da) c
• Dutch: tennis (nl) n
• Esperanto: teniso
• Estonian: tennis (et)
• Finnish: tennis (fi)
• French: tennis (fr) m
• Galician: tenis m
• Georgian: ჩოგბურთი (ka) (čogburti)
• German: Tennis (de) n
• Greek: αντισφαίριση (el) f (antisfaírisi), τένις (el) n (ténis) (colloquial)
• Gujarati: ટેનિસ (ṭenis)
• Hausa: tanìs m
• Hebrew: טֶנִיס‎ (he) m (tenis)
• Hindi: टेनिस (hi) (ṭenis)
• Hungarian: tenisz (hu)
• Icelandic: tennis (is) m
• Indonesian: tenis (id)
• Interlingua: tennis
• Irish: leadóg (ga) f
• Italian: tennis (it) m
• Japanese: テニス (ja) (tenisu), 庭球 (ja) (teikyū)
• Kannada: ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್ (ṭennis)
• Kazakh: теннис (tennïs)
• Khmer: តែន្និស (taennih)
• Korean: 테니스 (ko) (teniseu), 정구 (ko) (jeonggu) (庭球 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: теннис (tennis)
• Lao: ເຕັນນິສ (ten nit), ເທນນິດ (thēn nit), ເທັນນິດ (then nit)
• Latvian: teniss (lv) m
• Lithuanian: tenisas m
• Macedonian: те́нис m (ténis)

• Malay: tenis
• Malayalam: ടെന്നീസ് (ṭennīsŭ)
• Maltese: tenis
• Marathi: टेनिस (ṭenis)
• Mongolian: теннис (tennis)
• Navajo: jooł ałchʼįʼ abínídzílghałí
• Nepali: टेनिस (ṭenis)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tennis (no) m

  Nynorsk: tennis m

• Persian: تنیس‎ (fa) (tenis)
• Polish: tenis ziemny m anim, tenis (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: tênis (pt) m, ténis (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਖਿੱਦੋ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (khiddo-chikkā), ਗੇਂਦ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (gēnda-chikkā)
• Romanian: tenis (ro) n
• Russian: те́ннис (ru) m (tɛ́nnis)
• Rusyn: те́ніс m (ténis)
• Sanskrit: लानम् (lānam)
• Scottish Gaelic: teanas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: те́нис m

  Roman: ténis (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ටෙනිස් (ṭenis)
• Slovak: tenis m
• Slovene: ténis (sl) m
• Spanish: tenis (es) m
• Swahili: tenisi
• Swedish: tennis (sv) c
• Tagalog: tenis
• Tajik: теннис (tg) (tennis)
• Tamil: வரிப்பந்தாட்டம் (varippantāṭṭam), வலைப்பந்து (valaippantu)
• Tatar: теннис (tennis)
• Telugu: టెన్నిస్ (ṭennis)
• Thai: เทนนิส (th) (ten-nís)
• Tibetan: ཏན་ནེ་སི་སྤོ་ལོ། (tan ne si spo lo)
• Tigrinya: ተኒስ (tänis)
• Turkish: tenis (tr)
• Turkmen: tennis
• Ukrainian: те́ніс m (ténis)
• Urdu: ٹینس‎ (ṭenis)
• Uyghur: چويلا توپ‎ (choyla top)
• Uzbek: tennis (uz)
• Vietnamese: quần vợt (vi), ten-nít
• Walloon: tenisse (wa) m
• Yiddish: טעניס‎ n (tenis)

Verb

tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)

1. (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
2. (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
   • 1633, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande  […], Dublin: […] Sir James Ware; reprinted as A View of the State of Ireland […], Dublin: […] the Society of Stationers, […] Hibernian Press,  […] By John Morrison, 1809:

     they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them

See also

• table tennis or ping pong

Anagrams

• innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin

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Catalan

Alternative forms

• tenis

Etymology

From English tennis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.nis/

Noun

tennis m (uncountable)

1. tennis

Further reading

• “tennis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tennis” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tennis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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Danish

Etymology

From English tennis.

Noun

tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived terms

• tennisbane
• tennisbold
• tennisketsjer

Further reading

• “tennis” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.nəs/

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• Hyphenation: ten‧nis

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tennis.

Noun

tennis n (uncountable)

1. tennis (sport)

Derived terms

• rolstoeltennis
• tafeltennis
• tennisarm
• tennisbaan
• tennisnet
• tennisracket
• tennissen
• tennisspeelster
• tennisspeler
• tennisveld

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tennis

1. first-person singular present indicative of tennissen
2. imperative of tennissen

Anagrams

• intens

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Estonian

Noun

tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)

1. tennis

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Finnish

Etymology

From English tennis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtenːis/, [ˈt̪e̞nːis̠]
• Rhymes: -enːis
• Syllabification: ten‧nis

Noun

tennis

1. tennis

Declension

Inflection of tennis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		tennis	tennikset
genitive		tenniksen	tennisten tenniksien
partitive		tennistä	tenniksiä
illative		tennikseen	tenniksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		tennis	tennikset
accusative	nom.	tennis	tennikset
	gen.	tenniksen
genitive		tenniksen	tennisten tenniksien
partitive		tennistä	tenniksiä
inessive		tenniksessä	tenniksissä
elative		tenniksestä	tenniksistä
illative		tennikseen	tenniksiin
adessive		tenniksellä	tenniksillä
ablative		tennikseltä	tenniksiltä
allative		tennikselle	tenniksille
essive		tenniksenä	tenniksinä
translative		tennikseksi	tenniksiksi
instructive		—	tenniksin
abessive		tenniksettä	tenniksittä
comitative		—	tenniksineen

Possessive forms of tennis (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tennikseni	tenniksemme
2nd person	tenniksesi	tenniksenne
3rd person	tenniksensä

Synonyms

• verkkopallo (dated)

Compounds

• tenniskenkä
• tenniskenttä
• tenniskyynärpää
• tennismaila
• tennispallo
• tennistossu
• tennisturnaus (tennis tournament)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tennis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.nis/

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Noun

tennis m (plural tennis)

1. (usually uncountable) tennis
2. (countable, Europe, dated) sneaker

Further reading

• “tennis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɛnːɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɛnːɪs

Noun

tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)

1. tennis

Declension

declension of tennis

m-s1	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	tennis	tennisinn
accusative	tennis	tennisinn
dative	tennis	tennisnum
genitive	tenniss	tennissins

Derived terms

• tennisolnbogi
• tennisspaði

Anagrams

• steinn

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Italian

Etymology

From English tennis.

Noun

tennis m (invariable)

1. tennis

Related terms

• tennistavolo
• tennista
• tennistico

Further reading

• tennis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

1. (sports) tennis

Derived terms

• bordtennis
• tennisbane
• tennisspiller

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

1. (sports) tennis

Derived terms

• bordtennis
• tennisbane

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

tennis c (definite singular tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived terms

• tennisracket

Anagrams

• nitens, sinnet