badminton

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• /ˈbæd.mɪn.tən/
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• /ˈbæd.mɪt.ən/
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The place name is from Old English Badimyncgtun (“estate of (a man called) Baduhelm”), from the personal name *Bad (possibly also found in Frankish Badon) + helm + -ing + -tun.

Named after Badminton House, an estate in Gloucestershire owned by the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played in England. For the house name, see Badminton.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: pluimbal — a racquet sport
• Arabic: بَدْمِينْتُون (badmintūn) — a racquet sport
• Arabic: تِنِس اَلرِّيشَة (tenis ar-rīša) — a racquet sport
• Armenian: բադմինտոն (badminton) — a racquet sport
• Azerbaijani: badminton — a racquet sport
• Belarusian: бадмінто́н (badmintón) — a racquet sport
• Betawi: tepok bulu — a racquet sport
• Bulgarian: бадминто́н (badmintón) — a racquet sport
• Catalan: bàdminton — a racquet sport
• Chinese Cantonese: 羽毛球 (jyu5 mou4 kau4) — a racquet sport
• Chinese Mandarin: 羽毛球 (yǔmáoqiú) — a racquet sport
• Czech: badminton — a racquet sport
• Danish: badminton — a racquet sport
• Central Dusun: badminton — a racquet sport
• Esperanto: badmintono — a racquet sport
• Esperanto: volanludo — a racquet sport
• Estonian: sulgpall — a racquet sport
• Faroese: badminton — a racquet sport
• Finnish: sulkapallo — a racquet sport
• French: badminton — a racquet sport
• Galician: bádminton — a racquet sport
• German: Badminton — a racquet sport
• German: Federball — a racquet sport
• Greek: αντιπτέριση (antiptérisi) — a racquet sport
• Hindi: चिड़ी छ्क्का (ciṛī chkkā) — a racquet sport
• Hungarian: tollaslabda — a racquet sport
• Icelandic: badminton — a racquet sport
• Icelandic: hnit — a racquet sport
• Indonesian: bulu tangkis — a racquet sport
• Italian: badminton — a racquet sport
• Japanese: バドミントン (badominton) — a racquet sport
• Japanese: 羽球 (ukyū) — a racquet sport
• Korean: 배드민턴 (baedeuminteon) — a racquet sport
• Korean: 바드민톤 (badeuminton) — a racquet sport
• Latvian: badmintons — a racquet sport
• Lithuanian: badmintonas — a racquet sport
• Macedonian: бадминтон (badminton) — a racquet sport
• Malay: badminton — a racquet sport
• Khiamniungan Naga: vēukōisīuh-îe — a racquet sport
• Norwegian Bokmål: badminton — a racquet sport
• Norwegian Nynorsk: badminton — a racquet sport
• Persian: بدمینتون (badminton) — a racquet sport
• Polish: badminton — a racquet sport
• Portuguese: badminton — a racquet sport
• Portuguese: badmínton — a racquet sport
• Punjabi: ਚਿੜੀ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (ciṛī-chikkā) — a racquet sport
• Romanian: badminton — a racquet sport
• Russian: бадминто́н (badmintón) — a racquet sport
• Slovak: bedminton — a racquet sport
• Upper Sorbian: pjerobul — a racquet sport
• Spanish: bádminton — a racquet sport
• Spanish: volante — a racquet sport
• Spanish: gallito — a racquet sport
• Swedish: badminton — a racquet sport
• Tagalog: badminton — a racquet sport
• Thai: แบดมินตัน (bɛ̀t-min-dtân) — a racquet sport
• Turkish: badminton — a racquet sport
• Turkish: tüylü top — a racquet sport
• Ukrainian: бадмінто́н (badmintón) — a racquet sport
• Vietnamese: cầu lông — a racquet sport
• Welsh: badminton — a racquet sport
• Zhuang: yijmauzgiuz — a racquet sport