basketball

See also: Basketball and basket-ball

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

basketball

Wikipedia

A game of basketball.

a basketball

Etymology

From basket +‎ ball.

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.
Synonyms: (US slang) hoops, (US slang) b-ball

to play basketball
(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:
- → Mandarin: 籃球／篮球 (lánqiú), 篮球 (lánqiú) (calque)
→ 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)
→ Venetan: bałacanestro (calque)
→ Vietnamese: bóng rổ (calque)
→ Yiddish: קוישבאָל (koyshbol) (calque)

Translations

the sport

Albanian: basketboll (sq) m
Arabic: كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة (ar) f (kurat as-salla)
Aragonese: balonzesto m
Armenian: բասկետբոլ (hy) (basketbol)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܣܦܹܝܪ ܣܵܠܵܐ m (ispēyr sālā)
Asturian: baloncestu m
Azerbaijani: basketbol (az)
Basque: saskibaloi (eu)
Belarusian: баскетбо́л m (baskjetból)
Bengali: বাস্কেটবল (bn) (baskeṭbol)
Bulgarian: баскетбо́л (bg) m (basketból)
Burmese: ဘတ်စကက်ဘော (my) (bhatca.kakbhau:)
Catalan: bàsquet (ca) m, basquetbol (ca) m
Cebuano: basketbol
Central Dusun: buul bakul
Cherokee: ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (talutsa alasgalodi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 籃球／篮球 (laam⁴ kau⁴)

Hokkien: 籃球／篮球 (zh-min-nan) (nâ-kiû)

Mandarin: 籃球／篮球 (zh) (lánqiú)
Chuvash: баскетбол (basketbol)
Crimean Tatar: basketbol
Czech: basketbal (cs) m
Danish: basketball (da) c
Dutch: basketbal (nl) n
Esperanto: korbopilkado, korbopilko, basketbalo
Estonian: korvpall (et), koss (colloquial)
Faroese: kurvabóltur (fo) m
Finnish: koripallo (fi), koripalloilu
French: basket-ball (fr) m, basketball (fr) m, ballon-panier (fr) m (Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England, rare)
Friulian: bale tal zei
Galician: baloncesto (gl) m
Georgian: კალათბურთი (ka) (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, basket
Irish: cispheil f
Italian: pallacanestro (it) f, basket (it) m
Japanese: バスケットボール (ja) (basukettobōru), バスケ (ja) (basuke), 篭球 (ろうきゅう, rōkyū), 籠球 (ja) (ろうきゅう, rōkyū)
Kazakh: баскетбол (basketbol)
Khmer: កីឡាបាល់បោះ (kəylaa bal bɑh), បាល់បោះ (bal bɑh)
Komi-Zyrian: кудсяр (kudśar)
Korean: 농구(籠球) (ko) (nonggu), 롱구(籠球) (ko) (ronggu) (North Korea), 배스킷볼 (baeseukitbol)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: basketbol (ku) f
Kyrgyz: баскетбол (ky) (basketbol)
Lao: ບານບ້ວງ (lo) (bān būang)
Latin: canistrilūdium (New Latin)
Latvian: basketbols m
Ligurian: ballabanastra f
Lithuanian: krepšinis (lt) m
Samogitian: krepšėnis m
Luxembourgish: Basketball (lb)
Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦟᦳᧄᦎᦱᧇ (ṁaaklumṫaab)
Macedonian: кошарка (mk) f (košarka)
Malay: bola keranjang
Malayalam: ബാസ്ക്കറ്റ്ബോള് (bāskkaṟṟbōḷŭ)
Maltese: baskitbol m
Maori: poitūkohu
Marathi: बास्केटबॉल (mr) (bāskeṭbŏl)
Mongolian: сагсан бөмбөг (mn) (sagsan bömbög)
Navajo: jooł nikídílniihí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: basketball m

Nynorsk: korgball m, basketball m
Occitan: basket (oc) m
Ojibwe: chi-bikwaakwad biinjwebinigem
Persian: بسکتبال (fa) (basketbâl)
Polish: koszykówka (pl) f, piłka koszykowa f, kosz (pl) m (colloquial)
Portuguese: basquete (pt) m, basquetebol (pt) m, bola-ao-cesto (pt) f
Romanian: baschetbal (ro) n, baschet (ro) n
Romansch: ballabasket
Russian: баскетбо́л (ru) m (basketból)
Samoan: pasiketipolo
Scottish Gaelic: ball-basgaid
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ко̀ша̄рка f

Roman: kòšārka (sh) f
Sicilian: palla a canistru f
Sinhalese: පැසිපන්දු (pæsipandu)
Slovak: basketbal (sk) m
Slovene: košárka (sl) f
Spanish: baloncesto (es) m, básquetbol (es) m, básquet m
Swahili: mpira wa kikapu (sw)
Swedish: basket (sv) c, korgboll (sv) c
Tagalog: basketbol
Tajik: баскетбол (tg) (basketbol)
Tamil: கூடைப்பந்து (ta) (kūṭaippantu)
Tatar: баскетбол (basketbol)
Telugu: బాస్కెట్ బాల్ (bāskeṭ bāl)
Thai: บาสเกตบอล (báas-gét-bɔl)
Tibetan: དྲ་ཕས་སྤོ་ལོ། (dra phas spo lo), སིལ་པོལ (sil pol)
Turkish: basketbol (tr), basket (tr)
Turkmen: basketbol (tk)
Ukrainian: баскетбо́л (uk) m (basketból), кошикі́вка f (košykívka)
Urdu: باسکیٹ بال (bāskeṭ bāl)
Uzbek: basketbol (uz)
Venetan: bałacanestro m
Vietnamese: bóng rổ (vi)
Volapük: bäsetaglöpäd (vo)
Welsh: pêl-fasged (cy) f
Yiddish: באַסקעטבאָל m (basketbol), קוישבאָל m (koyshbol)
Zazaki: basketbol

the ball used in the sport

Arabic: كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة (ar) f (kurat as-salla)
Armenian: բասկետբոլի գնդակ (basketboli gndak)
Azerbaijani: basketbol topu
Cherokee: ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (talutsa alasgalodi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 籃球／篮球 (laam⁴ kau⁴)

Hokkien: 籃球／篮球 (zh-min-nan) (nâ-kiû)

Mandarin: 籃球／篮球 (zh) (lánqiú)
Danish: basketball (da) c
Dutch: basketbal (nl) m
Finnish: koripallo (fi)
German: Basketball (de) m
Hebrew: כַּדּוּר סַל m (kadúr sál)
Hungarian: kosárlabda (hu)
Icelandic: körfubolti (is) m
Japanese: バスケットボール (ja) (basukettobōru)
Korean: 농구공 (ko) (nonggugong)
Luxembourgish: Basketball (lb)
Macedonian: кошарка́рска топка f (košarkárska topka)
Navajo: jooł
Polish: piłka do koszykówki f, piłka koszykowa f
Portuguese: bola de basquete/basquetebol f
Romanian: minge de baschet f
Russian: баскетбо́льный мяч m (basketbólʹnyj mjač)
Scottish Gaelic: ball-basgaid m
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)
Welsh: pêl fasged f

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.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed 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

French

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

basketball m (uncountable)

post-1990 spelling of basket-ball

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

basketball

Wikipedia ^no

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

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

basketball

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From English basketball.

Noun

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)

basketball (ball game)
Synonym: korgball

References

“basketball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.