basketball

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/
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• US: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/
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• CMU ARPABET: B AE1 S K AH0 T B AO2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Proto-Brythonicder. Late Latin bascauda Anglo-Norman bascatbor. Middle English basket English basket Proto-Indo-European *bhel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal English ball English basketball From basket + ball.

180 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: basketboll — the sport
• Arabic: كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة (kurat as-salla) — the sport
• Aragonese: balonzesto — the sport
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܣܦܹܝܪ ܣܵܠܵܐ (ispēyr sālā) — the sport
• Armenian: բասկետբոլ (basketbol) — the sport
• Asturian: baloncestu — the sport
• Azerbaijani: basketbol — the sport
• Basque: saskibaloi — the sport
• Belarusian: баскетбо́л (baskjetból) — the sport
• Bengali: বাস্কেটবল (baskeṭbol) — the sport
• Bulgarian: баскетбо́л (basketból) — the sport
• Burmese: ဘတ်စကက်ဘော (bhatca.kakbhau:) — the sport
• Catalan: bàsquet — the sport
• Catalan: basquetbol — the sport
• Cebuano: basketbol — the sport
• Cherokee: ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (talutsa alasgalodi) — the sport
• Chinese Cantonese: 籃球 /篮球 (laam4 kau4) — the sport
• Chinese: 籃球 /篮球 (zh-min-nan) — the sport
• Chinese Mandarin: 籃球 /篮球 (lánqiú) — the sport
• Wu Chinese: 籃球 /篮球 (láng-lôk) — the sport
• Chuvash: баскетбол (basketbol) — the sport
• Crimean Tatar: basketbol — the sport
• Czech: basketbal — the sport
• Danish: basketball — the sport
• Central Dusun: buul bakul — the sport
• Dutch: basketbal — the sport
• Esperanto: korbopilkado — the sport
• Esperanto: korbopilko — the sport
• Esperanto: basketbalo — the sport
• Estonian: korvpall — the sport
• Estonian: koss — the sport
• Faroese: kurvabóltur — the sport
• Finnish: koripallo — the sport
• Finnish: koripalloilu — the sport
• French: basket-ball — the sport
• French: basketball — the sport
• French: ballon-panier — the sport
• Friulian: bale tal zei — the sport
• Galician: baloncesto — the sport
• Georgian: კალათბურთი (ḳalatburti) — the sport
• German: Basketball — the sport
• Greek: καλαθοσφαίριση (kalathosfaírisi) — the sport
• Greek: μπάσκετ (básket) — the sport
• Gujarati: બાસ્કેટ બોલ (bāskeṭ bol) — the sport
• Haitian Creole: baskètbòl — the sport
• Hebrew: כַּדּוּרְסַל (kadursál) — the sport
• Hindi: बास्केटबॉल (bāskeṭbŏl) — the sport
• Hindi: बास्केटबाल (bāskeṭbāl) — the sport
• Hungarian: kosárlabda — the sport
• Icelandic: körfubolti m körfuknattleikur — the sport
• Ido: korbobalono — the sport
• Ido: basketbalo — the sport
• Indonesian: bola basket — the sport
• Interlingua: basketball — the sport
• Interlingua: basket — the sport
• Irish: cispheil — the sport
• Italian: pallacanestro — the sport
• Italian: pallacesto — the sport
• Italian: palla al cerchio — the sport
• Italian: palla a spicchi — the sport
• Italian: basket — the sport
• Japanese: バスケットボール (basukettobōru) — the sport
• Japanese: バスケ (basuke) — the sport
• Japanese: 篭球 (rōkyū) — the sport
• Japanese: 籠球 (rōkyū) — the sport
• Kazakh: баскетбол (basketbol) — the sport
• Khmer: កីឡាបាល់បោះ (kəylaa bal bɑh) — the sport
• Khmer: បាល់បោះ (bal bɑh) — the sport
• Komi-Zyrian: кудсяр (kudśar) — the sport
• Korean: 농구 (nonggu) — the sport
• Korean: 롱구 (ronggu) — the sport
• Korean: 배스킷볼 (baeseukitbol) — the sport
• Northern Kurdish: basketbol — the sport
• Kyrgyz: баскетбол (basketbol) — the sport
• Lakota: tȟabškátapi — the sport
• Lakota: tȟabʼóiȟpeyapi — the sport
• Lao: ບານບ້ວງ (bān būang) — the sport
• Latin: canistrilūdium — the sport
• Latvian: basketbols — the sport
• Ligurian: ballabanastra — the sport
• Lithuanian: krepšinis — the sport
• Samogitian: krepšėnis — the sport
• Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦟᦳᧄᦎᦱᧇ (ṁaaklumṫaab) — the sport
• Luxembourgish: Basketball — the sport
• Macedonian: кошарка (košarka) — the sport
• Malay: bola keranjang — the sport
• Malayalam: ബാസ്ക്കറ്റ്ബോള് (bāskkaṟṟbōḷŭ) — the sport
• Maltese: baskitbol — the sport
• Māori: poitūkohu — the sport
• Marathi: बास्केटबॉल (bāskeṭbŏl) — the sport
• Marshallese: pāājkōt — the sport
• Mongolian: сагсан бөмбөг (sagsan bömbög) — the sport
• Navajo: jooł nikídílniihí — the sport
• Norwegian Bokmål: basketball — the sport
• Norwegian Nynorsk: korgball — the sport
• Norwegian Nynorsk: basketball — the sport
• Occitan: basket — the sport
• Ojibwe: chi-bikwaakwad biinjwebinigem — the sport
• Persian: بسکتبال (basketbâl) — the sport
• Polish: koszykówka — the sport
• Polish: piłka koszykowa — the sport
• Polish: kosz — the sport
• Portuguese: basquete — the sport
• Portuguese: basquetebol — the sport
• Portuguese: bola ao cesto — the sport
• Romanian: baschetbal — the sport
• Romanian: baschet — the sport
• Romansh: ballabasket — the sport
• Russian: баскетбо́л (basketból) — the sport
• Samoan: pasiketipolo — the sport
• Scottish Gaelic: ball-basgaid — the sport
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀ша̄рка — the sport
• Serbo-Croatian: kòšārka — the sport
• Sicilian: palla a canistru — the sport
• Sinhalese: පැසිපන්දු (pæsipandu) — the sport
• Slovak: basketbal — the sport
• Slovene: košárka — the sport
• Spanish: baloncesto — the sport
• Spanish: básquetbol — the sport
• Spanish: básquet — the sport
• Swahili: mpira wa kikapu — the sport
• Swedish: basket — the sport
• Swedish: korgboll — the sport
• Tagalog: basketbol — the sport
• Tajik: баскетбол (basketbol) — the sport
• Tamil: கூடைப்பந்து (kūṭaippantu) — the sport
• Tatar: баскетбол (basketbol) — the sport
• Telugu: బాస్కెట్ బాల్ (bāskeṭ bāl) — the sport
• Thai: บาสเกตบอล (báas-gét-bɔl) — the sport
• Tibetan: དྲ་ཕས་སྤོ་ལོ། (dra phas spo lo) — the sport
• Tibetan: སིལ་པོལ (sil pol) — the sport
• Turkish: basketbol — the sport
• Turkish: basket — the sport
• Turkmen: basketbol — the sport
• Ukrainian: баскетбо́л (basketból) — the sport
• Ukrainian: кошикі́вка (košykívka) — the sport
• Urdu: باسکیٹ بال (bāskeṭ bāl) — the sport
• Uzbek: basketbol — the sport
• Venetan: bałacanestro — the sport
• Vietnamese: bóng rổ — the sport
• Volapük: bäsetaglöpäd — the sport
• Welsh: pêl-fasged — the sport
• Yiddish: באַסקעטבאָל (basketbol) — the sport
• Yiddish: קוישבאָל (koyshbol) — the sport
• Zazaki: basketbol — the sport
• Arabic: كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة (kurat as-salla) — the ball used in the sport
• Armenian: բասկետբոլի գնդակ (basketboli gndak) — the ball used in the sport
• Azerbaijani: basketbol topu — the ball used in the sport
• Bulgarian: баскетболна топка (basketbolna topka) — the ball used in the sport
• Cherokee: ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (talutsa alasgalodi) — the ball used in the sport
• Chinese Cantonese: 籃球 /篮球 (laam4 kau4) — the ball used in the sport
• Chinese: 籃球 /篮球 (zh-min-nan) — the ball used in the sport
• Chinese Mandarin: 籃球 /篮球 (lánqiú) — the ball used in the sport
• Danish: basketball — the ball used in the sport
• Dutch: basketbal — the ball used in the sport
• Finnish: koripallo — the ball used in the sport
• German: Basketball — the ball used in the sport
• Gujarati: બાસ્કેટ બોલ (bāskeṭ bol) — the ball used in the sport
• Hebrew: כַּדּוּר סַל (kadúr sál) — the ball used in the sport
• Hungarian: kosárlabda — the ball used in the sport
• Icelandic: körfubolti — the ball used in the sport
• Japanese: バスケットボール (basukettobōru) — the ball used in the sport
• Korean: 농구공 (nonggugong) — the ball used in the sport
• Lakota: tȟápa-tȟáŋka — the ball used in the sport
• Luxembourgish: Basketball — the ball used in the sport
• Macedonian: кошарка́рска топка (košarkárska topka) — the ball used in the sport
• Marshallese: bo̧o̧ļ in pāājkōt — the ball used in the sport
• Navajo: jooł — the ball used in the sport
• Polish: piłka do koszykówki — the ball used in the sport
• Polish: piłka koszykowa — the ball used in the sport
• Portuguese: bola de basquete/basquetebol — the ball used in the sport
• Romanian: minge de baschet — the ball used in the sport
• Russian: баскетбо́льный мяч (basketbólʹnyj mjač) — the ball used in the sport
• Scottish Gaelic: ball-basgaid — the ball used in the sport
• Swedish: basketboll — the ball used in the sport
• Turkish: basketbol topu — the ball used in the sport
• Ukrainian: баскетбо́льний м'яч (basketbólʹnyj mʺjač) — the ball used in the sport
• Ukrainian: м'яч до кошикі́вки (mʺjač do košykívky) — the ball used in the sport
• Volapük: bäsetaglöp — the ball used in the sport
• Welsh: pêl fasged — the ball used in the sport