wrestling

English

Etymology

From late Old English wræstlunge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/, /ˈɹɛs.lɪŋ/

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Verb

wrestling

1. present participle of wrestle

Noun

wrestling (countable and uncountable, plural wrestlings)

1. A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
2. A professional tumbling act that emulates the sport of wrestling. Also called "professional wrestling". It is distinguished from sport wrestling — which has strict internationally recognized rules and is conducted on a mat — by being scripted, rehearsed, conducted in a boxing ring rather than on a mat, and televised as entertainment.
3. (countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
   • 1863, Jean Ingelow, Poems, "Honors"

     I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow […]

Translations

sport

• Arabic: مُصَارَعَة‎ m (muṣāraʿa)
• Armenian: ըմբշամարտ (hy) (əmbšamart)
• Azerbaijani: güləş (az)
• Bashkir: көрәш (köräš)
• Buryat: барилдаан (barildaan)
• Catalan: lluita (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摔角 (zh) (shuāijiǎo), 摔跤 (zh) (shuāijiāo)

• Crimean Tatar: küreş
• Czech: zápas (cs) m
• Danish: brydning c
• Dutch: worstelen (nl) n
• Finnish: paini (fi)
• French: lutte (fr) f
• Gagauz: güreş
• Galician: loita libre f, loita f
• German: Ringkampf (de) m, Ringen (de) n
• Greek: πάλη (el) f (páli)

  Ancient: πάλη f (pálē)

• Hebrew: היאבקות‎ (he) f (hiávkut)
• Hungarian: birkózás (hu)
• Italian: lotta libera (it) f, lotta (it) f
• Japanese: レスリング (ja) (resuringu)
• Kalmyk: ноолдлһн (nooldlhn), бәрлдән (bärldän)
• Kazakh: күрес (kk) (küres)
• Khakas: кӱрес (küres)
• Korean: 레슬링 (ko) (reseulling)
• Kurdish:

  Southern Kurdish: زووران‎ (zûran)

• Kyrgyz: күрөш (ky) (küröş)
• Latin: luctātiō f
• Malay: gusti
• Maltese: lotta f, sarar m, sirigħ m
• Mongolian: бөх (mn) (böh)
• Navajo: naʼahínítaah

• Nogai: куьрес (küres)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bryting m or f

  Nynorsk: bryting f

• Occitan: lucha (oc)
• Ojibwe: gagwejiwaaniding
• Persian: کشتی‎ (fa) (košti)
• Polish: zapasy (pl) pl, wrestling (pl) m
• Portuguese: luta (pt) f
• Romanian: luptă (ro)
• Russian: борьба́ (ru) f (borʹbá)
• Scots: warstlin
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хр̀ва̄ње n

  Roman: hr̀vānje (sh) n

• Shor: кӱреш (küreş)
• Slovene: rokoborba (sl) f
• Southern Altai: кӱреш (küreš)
• Spanish: lucha libre f
• Swahili: mieleka (sw)
• Swedish: brottning (sv) c
• Tagalog: buno, pagbubuno
• Tajik: гӯштингирӣ (güštingirī)
• Tatar: көрәш (tt) (köräş)
• Thai: มวยปล้ำ (th) (muai-bplâm)
• Tibetan: ཨབ་ཐང (ab thang), སྦེ་ག (sbe ga)
• Turkish: güreş (tr)
• Turkmen: göreş
• Tuvan: хүреш (xüreş), демисел (demisel)
• Ukrainian: боротьба́ (uk) f (borotʹbá)
• Uyghur: چېلىش‎ (chëlish)
• Uzbek: kurash (uz)
• Yakut: тустуу (tustuu), күрэс (küres)

tumbling act

• Finnish: showpaini
• French: catch (fr) m

• Hungarian: pankráció (hu)
• Spanish: lucha libre, pressing catch

See also

• clench
• hold
• counter
• on the ropes
• on the canvas
• on the mat
• ring
• sumo, kanjin-sumo

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Polish

Etymology

From English wrestling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.stlʲink/

Noun

wrestling m inan

1. professional wrestling

Declension

declension of wrestling

	singular
nominative	wrestling
genitive	wrestlingu
dative	wrestlingowi
accusative	wrestling
instrumental	wrestlingiem
locative	wrestlingu
vocative	wrestlingu

Further reading

• wrestling in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wrestling in Polish dictionaries at PWN