volleyball
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom volley + ball. In 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G. Morgan created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton. After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College), the game quickly became known as volleyball (it was originally spelled as two words: "volley ball") (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvolleyball (countable and uncountable, plural volleyballs)
- (uncountable) A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.
- (countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Burmese: ဘော်လီဘော (bhaulibhau:)
- → Catalan: voleibol
- → Czech: volejbal
- → French: volley-ball, volleyball
- → Galician: voleibol
- → German: Volleyball
- → Hindi: वॉलीबाल (vŏlībāl), वालीबाल (vālībāl), वॉलीबॉल (vŏlībŏl)
- → Japanese: バレーボール (barēbōru)
- → Korean: 발리볼 (ballibol)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: volleyball
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: volleyball
- → Portuguese: voleibol
- → Russian: волейбо́л (volejból) (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: voleibol, vóleibol
- → Swahili: voliboli
- → Tagalog: balibol
- → Thai: วอลเลย์บอล (wɔn-lêe-bɔn)
- → Turkish: voleybol
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French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editvolleyball m (uncountable)
Derived terms
editNorwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom English volleyball.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editvolleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)
- volleyball (ball game)
References
edit- “volleyball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “volleyball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom English volleyball.
Noun
editvolleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)
- volleyball (ball game)
References
edit- “volleyball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
editNoun
editvolleyball m (uncountable)
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷelH-
- English compound terms
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Sports
- en:Volleyball
- French 3-syllable words
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- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
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- French alternative spellings
- French post-1990 spellings
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from English
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms with audio pronunciation
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Sports
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from English
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- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Sports
- Portuguese lemmas
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- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with Y
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- Portuguese dated forms