Etymology
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From late Old English wræstlunge
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/ , /ˈɹɛs.lɪŋ/ Audio (Southern England) (file )
Rhymes: -ɛslɪŋ wrestling
present participle and gerund of wrestle wrestling (countable and uncountable plural wrestlings
A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
Ellipsis of professional wrestling ( “ act that emulates the sport of wrestling ” ) ( countable , dated ) match .
1879 Pindar chapter 4 , page 42 :[ …] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry [ …]
( countable ) struggle to achieve something.
1863 Jean Ingelow , “Honors”, in Poems :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 [ …]
Derived terms
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Translations
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sport
Arabic: مُصَارَعَة m ( muṣāraʕa )
Armenian: ըմբշամարտ (hy) ( əmbšamart )
Azerbaijani: güləş (az)
Bashkir: көрәш ( körəş )
Bulgarian: борба (bg) f ( borba )
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 (gl) f loita (gl) 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 ( nooldlğn ) , бәрлдән ( bärldän )
Kazakh: күрес ( küres )
Khakas: кӱрес ( küres )
Korean: 레슬링 (ko) ( reseulling )
Kurdish:
Southern Kurdish: زووران ( zûran )
Kyrgyz: күрөш (ky) ( küröş )
Latin: luctātiō f
Malay: gusti
Malayalam: മൽപ്പിടുത്തം ( malppiṭuttaṁ ) , ഗുസ്തി (ml) ( gusti )
Maltese: lotta f sarar m sirigħ m
Mongolian: бөх (mn) ( böx )
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 livre (pt) f 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 (es) 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 )
Urdu: کشتی ( kušti ) , کشتی بازی ( kušti bāzī )
Uyghur: چېلىش ( chëlish )
Uzbek: kurash (uz)
Vietnamese: vật (vi) , đấu vật
Yakut: тустуу ( tustuu ) , күрэс ( küres )
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