tennis

See also: Tennis

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.nɪs/

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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.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
   • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Macaulay

     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 player
• tennis racket
• tennis racquet

Related terms

• tennis elbow

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 (ṭenis)
• 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) (庭球, jeonggu)
• 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 (khido-cḥikā), ਗੇਂਦ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (gend-cḥikā)
• 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.

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See also

• table tennis or ping pong

Anagrams

• innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin

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Catalan

Noun

tennis m (uncountable)

1. tennis

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Danish

Noun

tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived terms

• tennisbane
• tennisbold
• tennisketsjer

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.nəs/

• Audio

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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]
• Hyphenation: 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

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/

• audio

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Noun

tennis m (plural tennis)

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

Further reading

• “tennis” in le 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

Noun

tennis m (invariable)

1. tennis

Related terms

• tennistavolo
• tennista
• tennistico

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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

• Audio

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Noun

tennis c (definite singular tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived terms

• tennisracket