English
A game of basketball.
a basketball
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.
- (basketball, countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
Synonyms
- (sport): hoops (US slang)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
the sport
- Albanian: basketboll (sq) m
- Arabic: كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة (ar) f (kurat as-salla)
- Aragonese: balonzesto m
- Armenian: բասկետբոլ (hy) (basketbol)
- Asturian: baloncestu m
- Azeri: basketbol (az)
- Basque: saskibaloi (eu)
- Belarusian: баскетбо́л m (baskjetból)
- Bengali: বাস্কেটবল (baskeţbôl)
- Bulgarian: баскетбо́л (bg) m (basketból)
- Burmese: ဘတ်စကက်ဘော (my) (bhatca.kakbhau:)
- Catalan: bàsquet (ca) m, basquetbol (ca) m
- Cebuano: basketbol
- Cherokee: ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (talutsa alasgalodi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 籃球 (zh), 篮球 (zh) (lánqiú)
- Chuvash: баскетбол (basketbol)
- Crimean Tatar: basketbol
- Czech: basketbal (cs) m
- Danish: basketball (da) c
- Dutch: basketbal (nl) n
- Esperanto: korbopilkado
- Estonian: korvpall (et)
- Faroese: kurvabóltur m
- Finnish: koripallo (fi), koripalloilu
- French: basket-ball (fr) m, basketball (fr) m, ballon-panier (fr) m (Canada, rare)
- Friulian: bale tal zei
- Galician: baloncesto (gl) m
- Georgian: კალათბურთი (ḳalatburti)
- German: Basketball (de) m
- Greek: καλαθοσφαίριση (el) f (kalathosfaírisi)
- Haitian Creole: baskètbòl
- Hebrew: כַּדּוּרְסַל (he) m (kadursál)
- Hindi: बास्केटबॉल (bāskeṭbŏl), बास्केटबाल (bāskeṭbāl)
- Hungarian: kosárlabda (hu)
- Icelandic: körfubolti (is) m körfuknattleikur (is) m
- Ido: korbobalono (io), basketbalo (io)
- Indonesian: bola basket (id)
- Interlingua: basketball
- Irish: cispheil f
- Italian: pallacanestro (it) f
- Japanese: バスケットボール (ja) (basukettobōru), バスケ (basuke)
- Kazakh: баскетбол (kk) (basketbol)
- Khmer: កីឡាបាល់បោះ (kəylaa bal bɑh), បាល់បោះ (bal bɑh)
- Komi-Zyrian: кудсяр (kudsjar)
- Korean: 농구 (ko) (nonggu)
- Kyrgyz: баскетбол (ky) (basketbol)
- Lao: ບານບ້ວງ (lo) (bān būang)
- Latvian: basketbols m
- Ligurian: ballabanastra f
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the ball used in the sport
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- Macedonian: кошарка́рска топка f (košarkárska topka)
- Navajo: jooł
- Polish: piłka do koszykówki f
- Portuguese: bola de basquete/basquetebol f
- Romanian: minge de baschet f
- Russian: баскетбо́льный мяч m (basketbólʹnyj mjač)
- Swedish: basketboll (sv) c
- Turkish: basketbol topu
- Ukrainian: баскетбо́льний м'яч m (basketbólʹnyj mʺjač), м'яч до кошикі́вки m (mʺjač do košykívky)
- Volapük: bäsetaglöp (vo)
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Danish
Etymology
Borrowing from English basketball.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baːskətbaːl/, [ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əd̥ˌb̥ɒːl]
Noun
basketball c (singular definite basketballen, not used in plural form)
- basketball
Synonyms
- (sport): basket
- (ball): basketbold
See also
French
Noun
basketball m (uncountable)
- Alternative form of basket-ball
basketball on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da