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English
Etymology
From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer + -ery.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ärchərē, IPA(key): /ɑɹt͡ʃəɹiː/, /ɑːt͡ʃəɹiː/
- Hyphenation: arch‧er‧y
Noun
archery (countable and uncountable, plural archeries)
- (uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
- (countable) A group of archers.
Derived terms
Translations
the practice
- Afrikaans: boogskiet (af), boogskut
- Arabic: رِمَايَة (ar) f (rimāya)
- Armenian: նետաձգություն (hy) (netajgutʻyun)
- Belarusian: стральба́ з лу́ка f (stralʹbá z lúka)
- Bulgarian: стрелба́ с лък f (strelbá s lǎk)
- Catalan: tir amb arc m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 箭術 / 箭术 (jiànshù), 射箭 (zh) (shèjiàn)
- Czech: lukostřelba f
- Danish: bueskydning c
- Dutch: boogschieten (nl) n
- Estonian: vibusport
- Ewe: aŋutrɔdada n
- Finnish: jousiammunta (fi)
- French: tir à l’arc (fr) m, archerie (fr) f
- Georgian: მშვილდოსნობა (mšvildosnoba)
- German: Bogenschießen (de) n
- Greek: τοξοβολία (el) f (toxovolía)
- Ancient: τοξεία f (toxeía)
- Hindi: धनुर्विद्या (hi) f (dhanurvidyā), तीरंदाज़ी f (tīrandāzī)
- Hungarian: íjászat (hu)
- Indonesian: panahan (id)
- Italian: tiro con l'arco n
- Japanese: 弓道 (ja) (きゅうどう, kyūdō), 弓術 (ja) (きゅうじゅつ, kyūjutsu), アーチェリー (ja) (ācherī)
- Korean: 궁도(弓道) (ko) (gungdo), 궁술(弓術) (ko) (gungsul), 양궁(洋弓) (ko) (yanggung)
- Latvian: loka šaušana f
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: стреличарство n (streličarstvo)
- Maltese: dwell
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: харваа (mn) (xarvaa)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bueskyting m or f
- Nynorsk: bogeskyting f
- Occitan: tir amb arc m
- Persian: تیراندازی با کمان
- Polish: łucznictwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: arco e flecha (pt) m
- Russian: стрельба́ из лу́ка f (strelʹbá iz lúka)
- Scottish Gaelic: boghadaireachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: стрѐлича̄рство n
- Roman: strèličārstvo (sh) n
- Slovak: lukostrelectvo n
- Slovene: lokostrelstvo n
- Spanish: arquería (es) f, tiro con arco (es) m
- Swedish: bågskjutning n
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: విలువిద్య (te) (viluvidya)
- Thai: การยิงธนู (kār ying ṭhnū)
- Turkish: okçuluk (tr)
- Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: стрільба́ з лу́ка f (strilʹbá z lúka)
- Vietnamese: bắn cung
- Welsh: saethyddiaeth f
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