tennis

See also: Tennis

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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez, second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”).

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnɪs/
- Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnɪs

NounEdit

tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)

(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.”
(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 […]
(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 […] (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 termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

→ Armenian: թենիս (tʿenis)
→ Arabic: تنس‎ (tinis)
→ Asturian: tenis
→ Basque: tenis
→ Burmese: တင်းနစ် (tang:nac)
→ Catalan: tennis
→ Czech: tenis
→ Danish: tennis
→ Dutch: tennis
→ Finnish: tennis
→ French: tennis
→ Galician: tenis
German: Tennis
- → Estonian: tennis
→ Borôro: el, τένις
→ Hebrew: טניס‎ (ténis)
→ Hindi: टेनिस (ṭenis)
→ Hungarian: tenisz
→ Icelandic: tennis
→ Italian: tennis
→ Japanese: テニス (tenisu)
→ Korean: 테니스 (teniseu)
→ Latvian: teniss
→ Luxembourgish: Tennis
→ Malay: tenis
→ Northern Kurdish: tenîs
→ Norwegian: tennis
→ Persian: تنیس‎ (tenis)
→ Polish: tenis
→ Portuguese: ténis, tênis
→ Romanian: tenis
→ Russian: те́ннис (ténnis)
- → Kazakh: теннис (tennis)
→ Scottish Gaelic: teanas
→ Serbo-Croatian: tenis / тенис
→ Slovene: tenis
→ Spanish: tenis
→ Swahili: tenisi
→ Swedish: tennis
→ Telugu: టెన్నిసు (ṭennisu), టెన్నిస్ (ṭennis)
→ Thai: เทนนิส (ten-nís)
→ Turkish: tenis
→ Ukrainian: теніс (tenis)
→ Uzbek: tennis
→ Walloon: tenisse

TranslationsEdit

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 المَضْرِب‎ f (kuratu l-maḍrib), كُرَةُ المِضْرَب‎ f (kuratu l-miḍrab)
Gulf Arabic: تنس‎ (tinis)
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:
Cantonese: 網球, 网球 (mong⁵ kau⁴)

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 (gl) 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 (tennis)
Khmer: តែន្និស (taennih)
Korean: 테니스 (ko) (teniseu), 정구(庭球) (ko) (jeonggu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: tenîs (ku)
Kyrgyz: теннис (tennis)
Lao: ເຕັນນິສ (ten nit), ເທນນິດ (thēn nit), ເທັນນິດ (then nit)
Latin: tenisia f
Latvian: teniss (lv) m
Lithuanian: tenisas m
Macedonian: те́нис m (ténis)
Malay: tenis
Malayalam: ടെന്നീസ് (ṭennīsŭ)
Maltese: tenis
Marathi: टेनिस (ṭenis)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: теннис (tennis)
Navajo: jooł ałchʼįʼ abínídzílghałí
Nepali: टेनिस (ṭenis)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tennis (no) m

Nynorsk: tennis m
Palauan: tenis
Pashto: تېنس‎ m (tenís), ټېنس‎ (ps) m (ṭenés)
Persian: تنیس‎ (fa) (tenis)
Polish: tenis ziemny m anim, tenis (pl) m anim, biały sport m (literary)
Portuguese: tênis (pt) m, ténis (pt) m
Punjabi: ਖਿੱਦੋ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (khiddo-chikkā), ਗੇਂਦ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (genda-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), تېننىس‎ (tënnis)
Uzbek: tennis (uz)
Vietnamese: quần vợt (vi), ten-nít
Walloon: tenisse (wa) m
Yiddish: טעניס‎ n (tenis)

VerbEdit

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

(intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
(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, […] Hibernia 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

AnagramsEdit

innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin

CatalanEdit

NounEdit

tennis m (uncountable)

tennis

DanishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From English tennis.

NounEdit

tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)

(uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived termsEdit

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.nəs/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: ten‧nis
Rhymes: -ɛnɪs

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English tennis.

NounEdit

tennis n (uncountable)

tennis (sport)

Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

tennis

first-person singular present indicative of tennissen
imperative of tennissen

AnagramsEdit

intens

EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From German Tennis.

NounEdit

tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)

tennis

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English tennis.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

tennis

tennis

DeclensionEdit

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
accusative	gen.	tenniksen	tennikset
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