volleyball

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

volleyball

Alternative forms

Etymology

volley +‎ ball

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɒlibɔ(ː)l/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

volleyball (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

Descendants

→ 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)
→ 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

Translations

game

Afrikaans: vlugbal
Albanian: volejboll (sq) m
Arabic: الكُرَةُ اَلْطَّائِرَة f (kurat aṭ-ṭāʔira)
Armenian: վոլեյբոլ (hy) (voleybol)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܦܹܝܪ ܛܵܘܣܵܐ m (ispēyr ṭāwsā)
Azerbaijani: voleybol (az)
Basque: boleibol
Belarusian: валейбо́л m (valjejból)
Bengali: ভলিবল (bn) (bholibol)
Bulgarian: волейбо́л (bg) m (volejból)
Burmese: ဘော်လီဘော (my) (bhaulibhau:)
Catalan: voleibol (ca) m, vòlei (ca) m
Central Dusun: buul tapap
Chinese:
Cantonese: 排球 (paai⁴ kau⁴)

Mandarin: 排球 (zh) (páiqiú)
Czech: volejbal m, odbíjená (cs) f
Danish: volleyball (da) c
Dutch: volleybal (nl) n
Esperanto: flugpilkado, retpilko, volejbalo, flugpilko
Estonian: võrkpall
Finnish: lentopallo (fi)
French: volley-ball (fr)
Galician: voleibol (gl) m, balonvolea (gl) m
Georgian: ფრენბურთი (prenburti)
German: Volleyball (de)
Greek: πετοσφαίριση (el) f (petosfaírisi), βόλλεϋ n (vólleÿ), βόλεϊ (el) n (vóleï)
Gujarati: મારદડો (māradḍo)
Hebrew: כַּדוּרעָף (he) m (kadur'áf)
Hindi: वॉलीबाल (vŏlībāl), वॉलीबॉल (vŏlībŏl)
Hungarian: röplabda (hu)
Icelandic: blak (is) n
Indonesian: bola voli
Irish: eitpheil m
Italian: pallavolo (it) f, palla a volo f, volley m
Japanese: バレーボール (ja) (barēbōru), 排球 (ja) (はいきゅう, haikyū)
Kazakh: волейбол (voleibol)
Khmer: បាល់ទះ (bal teah), កីឡាបាល់ទះ (kəylaa bal teah)
Korean: 배구(排球) (ko) (baegu), 발리볼 (ballibol)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: voleybol (ku) f
Kyrgyz: волейбол (ky) (voleybol)
Lao: ບານສົ່ງ (lo) (bān song)
Latin: follis volitatis m
Latvian: volejbols m
Lithuanian: tinklinis m
Macedonian: одбојка f (odbojka)
Malay: bola tampar (ms)
Maori: poirewa
Mingrelian: ფურინბურთი (purinburti)
Mongolian: волейбол (mn) (volejbol), гар бөмбөг (gar bömbög)
Navajo: jooł nabízníkaadí, jooł ałnáábízníltsʼííh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: volleyball (no) m

Nynorsk: volleyball m
Persian: والیبال (fa) (vâlibâl)
Polish: siatkówka (pl) f, piłka siatkowa (pl) f, siatka (pl) f (colloquial), siata (pl) f (colloquial)
Portuguese: voleibol (pt) m, vólei (pt) m (Portugal), vôlei (pt) m (Brazil)
Romanian: volei (ro) m
Russian: волейбо́л (ru) m (volejból)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: одбојка f

Roman: odbojka (sh) f
Sinhalese: වොලිබෝල් (si) (wolibōl)
Slovak: volejbal m
Slovene: odbojka (sl) f
Spanish: voleibol (es) m, voley m, balonvolea (es) m
Swahili: voliboli (sw)
Swedish: volleyboll (sv) c
Tagalog: volleyball, balibol
Tajik: волейбол (tg) (voleybol)
Thai: วอลเลย์บอล (th) (wɔn-lêe-bɔn)
Turkish: voleybol (tr)
Turkmen: woleýbol
Ukrainian: волейбо́л m (volejból), відби́ванка f (vidbývanka)
Urdu: والی بال (vālī bāl)
Uzbek: voleybol (uz)
Vietnamese: bóng chuyền (vi)
Welsh: pêl-foli

ball used to play the game

Afrikaans: vlugbal
Czech: volejbalový míč m
Dutch: volleybal (nl) m
Esperanto: flugpilko
Finnish: lentopallo (fi)
French: balle de volley-ball m, balle de volley m
Galician: pelota de voleibol f, balón de voleibol m
German: Volleyball (de) m
Greek: πετόσφαιρα (el) f (petósfaira)
Hungarian: röplabda (hu)
Icelandic: blakbolti m
Irish: eitpheil f
Navajo: jooł
Polish: piłka siatkowa (pl) f, piłka do siatkówki f
Portuguese: bola de vôlei/vólei f
Russian: волейбо́льный мяч m (volejbólʹnyj mjač)
Swahili: voliboli (sw)
Swedish: volleyboll (sv) c
Turkish: voleybol topu
Ukrainian: волейбо́льний м’яч m (volejbólʹnyj mʺjač), м’яч до відби́ванки m (mʺjač do vidbývanky)
Welsh: pêl-foli f

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɔ.lɛ.bol/, /vɔ.le.bol/
Audio (file)

Noun

volleyball m (uncountable)

post-1990 spelling of volley-ball

Derived terms

volleyball de plage

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

volleyball

Etymology

From English volleyball.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

volleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)

volleyball (ball game)

References

“volleyball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“volleyball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

volleyball

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From English volleyball.

Noun

volleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)

volleyball (ball game)

References

“volleyball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

volleyball m (uncountable)

Dated form of voleibol.

Wikious

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