basketball
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A game of basketball. 
a basketball
See also: Basketball and basket-ball
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
basketball (countable and uncountable, plural basketballs)
- (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
- (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: basquetbol
- → Cebuano: basketbol
- → Crimean Tatar: basketbol
- → Czech: basketbal
- → French: basket-ball
- → Danish: basketball
- → Dutch: basketbal
- → German: Basketball
- → Greek: μπάσκετ-μπολ (básket-bol)
- → Japanese: バスケットボール (basukettobōru)
- → Luxembourgish: Basketball
- Norwegian:
- → Norwegian Bokmål: basketball
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: basketball
- → Persian: بسکتبال (basketbâl)
- → Portuguese: basquetebol
- → Russian: баскетбо́л (basketból) (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: básquetbol
- → Tagalog: básketból
- → Thai: บาสเกตบอล (báas-gét-bɔl)
- → Turkish: basketbol
- → Yiddish: באַסקעטבאָל (basketbol)
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܦܹܝܪ ܣܵܠܵܐ (ispēr sālā) (calque)
- → Asturian: baloncestu (calque)
- → Basque: saskibaloi (calque)
- Chinese:
- → Estonian: korvpall (calque)
- → Faroese: kurvabóltur (calque)
- → Finnish: koripallo (calque)
- → Galician: baloncesto (calque)
- → Hebrew: כַּדּוּרְסַל (calque)
- → Hungarian: kosárlabda (calque)
- → Icelandic: körfubolti (calque)
- → Italian: pallacanestro (calque)
- → Japanese: 籠球 (calque)
- → Korean: 농구(籠球) (nonggu) (calque)
- → Scottish Gaelic: ball-basgaid (calque)
- → Spanish: baloncesto (calque)
- → Swahili: mpira wa kikapu (calque)
- → Turkish: sepettopu (calque)
- → Venetian: bałacanestro (calque)
- → Vietnamese: bóng rổ (calque)
- → Yiddish: קוישבאָל (koyshbol) (calque)
Translations
the sport
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the ball used in the sport
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Verb
basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)
- (informal, intransitive) To play basketball.
- 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward:
- by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league
- (informal, transitive) To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.
- 1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies:
- He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.
See also
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English basketball.
Pronunciation
Noun
basketball c (singular definite basketballen, not used in plural form)
Synonyms
- (sport): basket
- (ball): basketbold
See also
basketball on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
basketball m (uncountable)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English basketball.
Noun
basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)
- basketball (ball game)
- Synonym: basket
References
- “basketball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “basketball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English basketball.
Noun
basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)
- basketball (ball game)
- Synonym: korgball
References
- “basketball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.