boxing

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɒksɪŋ/
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• General-American: bäksʹĭng
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• General-American: /ˈbɑːksɪŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɒksɪŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: B AA1 K S IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Middle English box English box Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English boxing From box (“to punch”) + -ing.

From box + -ing.

100 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: boks — the sport of boxing
• Albanian: boks — the sport of boxing
• Arabic: مُلَاكَمَة (mulākama) — the sport of boxing
• Arabic: ملاكمة (mulākama) — the sport of boxing
• Armenian: բոքս (bokʻs) — the sport of boxing
• Armenian: բռնցքամարտ (bṙncʻkʻamart) — the sport of boxing
• Asturian: boxéu — the sport of boxing
• Azerbaijani: boks — the sport of boxing
• Bashkir: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Belarusian: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Bengali: বক্সিং (bokśiṅ) — the sport of boxing
• Bulgarian: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Burmese: လက်ဝှေ့ (lakhwe.) — the sport of boxing
• Catalan: boxa — the sport of boxing
• Chinese Mandarin: 拳擊 /拳击 (quánjī, quánjí) — the sport of boxing
• Czech: box — the sport of boxing
• Danish: boksning — the sport of boxing
• Dutch: boksen — the sport of boxing
• Esperanto: boksado — the sport of boxing
• Estonian: poks — the sport of boxing
• Finnish: nyrkkeily — the sport of boxing
• French: boxe — the sport of boxing
• French: pugilat — the sport of boxing
• Galician: boxeo — the sport of boxing
• Georgian: კრივი (ḳrivi) — the sport of boxing
• Georgian: ბოქსი (boksi) — the sport of boxing
• German: Boxen — the sport of boxing
• Greek: πυγμαχία (pygmachía) — the sport of boxing
• Greek: μποξ (box) — the sport of boxing
• Ancient Greek: πυγμαχία (pugmakhía) — the sport of boxing
• Ancient Greek: πυγμή (pugmḗ) — the sport of boxing
• Haitian Creole: boksè — the sport of boxing
• Hawaiian: kuʻi — the sport of boxing
• Hawaiian: moko — the sport of boxing
• Hawaiian: mokomoko — the sport of boxing
• Hebrew: אִגְרוּף (igrof) — the sport of boxing
• Hindi: बॉक्सिंग (bŏksiṅg) — the sport of boxing
• Hungarian: ökölvívás — the sport of boxing
• Icelandic: hnefaleikar — the sport of boxing
• Icelandic: box — the sport of boxing
• Ido: boxo — the sport of boxing
• Indonesian: tinju — the sport of boxing
• Irish: dornálaíocht — the sport of boxing
• Italian: boxe — the sport of boxing
• Italian: pugilato — the sport of boxing
• Japanese: ボクシング (bokushingu) — the sport of boxing
• Japanese: 拳闘 (kentō) — the sport of boxing
• Kazakh: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Korean: 권투 (gwontu) — the sport of boxing
• Korean: 복싱 (boksing) — the sport of boxing
• Kyrgyz: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Latin: pugilātiō — the sport of boxing
• Latvian: bokss — the sport of boxing
• Lithuanian: boksas — the sport of boxing
• Luhya: endondi — the sport of boxing
• Macedonian: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Malay: boksing — the sport of boxing
• Malay: tinju — the sport of boxing
• Māori: momoto — the sport of boxing
• Māori: motomoto — the sport of boxing
• Māori: mekemeke — the sport of boxing
• Marathi: बॉक्सिंग (bŏksiṅga) — the sport of boxing
• Marshallese: bait — the sport of boxing
• Mongolian: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Norwegian: boksing — the sport of boxing
• Occitan: bòxa — the sport of boxing
• Ojibwe: gagwedaganaanding — the sport of boxing
• Persian: بوکس (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Polish: boks — the sport of boxing
• Portuguese: boxe — the sport of boxing
• Romanian: box — the sport of boxing
• Russian: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Scottish Gaelic: dòrnaireachd — the sport of boxing
• Serbo-Croatian: бокс — the sport of boxing
• Serbo-Croatian: boks — the sport of boxing
• Sinhalese: බොක්සිං (boksiṁ) — the sport of boxing
• Slovak: box — the sport of boxing
• Slovene: boks — the sport of boxing
• Spanish: boxeo — the sport of boxing
• Spanish: box — the sport of boxing
• Spanish: pugilismo — the sport of boxing
• Swahili: ndondi — the sport of boxing
• Swedish: boxning — the sport of boxing
• Tagalog: boksing — the sport of boxing
• Tahitian: moto — the sport of boxing
• Tajik: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Tatar: бокс (boqs) — the sport of boxing
• Telugu: ముష్టియుద్ధము (muṣṭiyuddhamu) — the sport of boxing
• Thai: มวยสากล (muay săa-gon) — the sport of boxing
• Turkish: boks — the sport of boxing
• Turkish: yumrukoyunu — the sport of boxing
• Turkish: mülakeme — the sport of boxing
• Turkish: kunt — the sport of boxing
• Turkmen: boks — the sport of boxing
• Ukrainian: бокс (boks) — the sport of boxing
• Urdu: مکے بازی (mke bāzī) — the sport of boxing
• Uzbek: boks — the sport of boxing
• Vietnamese: quyền Anh — the sport of boxing
• Vietnamese: quyền thuật — the sport of boxing
• Finnish: käärintä — automatic conversion of value types to objects